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JWT’s annual list of people and things they think will play an important role in pop culture and society in the coming year is one of my favourite publications. JWT’s 90 Things to Watch in 2009 was released this week, and it’s filled with both the anticipated and very unexpected. The JWT report offers a run down on what the agency expects will be influential trends in the new year. Be sure to check out Trend Hunter’s own 2009 video trend report here. The top 90 things in JWT’s report to watch out for:
1. 21st-Century Networking 2. Affordable Nutrition 3. Amy Poehler 4. Apatow-esque Humor (comedies by Judd Apatow: Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Superbad, Pineapple Express) 5. Bruno (the next Borat) 6. Building a Beauty Arsenal 7. Buraka Som Sistema (a Portuguese breakbeat band) 8. Career Reinvention and Extension 9. Chat-Avoidance Services 10. The Cleveland Show 11. Cloud Computing 12. The Collective Consciousness 13. Creativity in the Informal Economy 14. Credit Card Dieting 15. Crowdfunding 16. The Decline of E-Mail 17. Distraction as Entertainment 18. DIY Repairs and Renovations 19. Doha 20. Dragonball 21. EarthRoamer (rooftop tents for ‘adventure vehicles’) 22. Electric Bikes 23. Elizabeth Banks (Zack and Miri Make a Porno) 24. Emma Stone (SuperBad, The House Bunny) 25. The Energy Race 27. Family-Friendly TV 28. Freebies 29. Gerard Butler 30. Girl Talk (American musician Gregg Gillis) 31. Giving Circles (groups who pool their funds to help community) 32. Gluten-Free (diet usually for those with wheat allergies or those with celiac disease) 33. Good Old-Fashioned Cooking 34. Graphic Novels Hit Hyperdrive 35. The Green-Collar Class 36. hi5 38. Home as Castle 39. HomeAway (vacation home rentals) 40. Homemade Beauty Treatments 42. Incognito luxury 43. Inconspicuous Travel 44. Innocent Cosmetics 45. Lady GaGa 46. Lala.com 47. Lance Armstrong 48. Lykke Li 49. Maria Pinto (one of Michelle Obama’s favourite designers) 50. Marketing with Aromas (scentvertising) 51. Michelle Obama 52. Microfinancing‘s Second Wave 53. Mobile Phones Get Personal 55. NASA’s Kepler Telescope 56. Netbooks 57. Noor 59. Nutrition Replaces Dieting 60. Obama-speak 61. ODO7 (Aroma Jockeying) 62. Online TV Network Crackle 63. Online Video Ads 64. Outliers (as a term) [based on Malcolm Gladwell’s book] 65. Palin’s Grandson 66. Personalized Travel Guides 67. Pisco Sours [sour Peruvian cocktail containing Pisco brandy, egg whites and lemon] 68. Presidential Sightseeing 69. Prince William Wedding Watch 70. Product Source Tags 71. Radical Transparency Meets Genomics 72. Readers + Social Media = Revenue? 73. Residential Market for Solar Power 74. Ricky Rubio (Spanish basketball player) 75. Russell Brand 76. Safe-keeping 77. The Small Movement 78. Smart Garages 79. South Africa 80. Stuart Karten (L.A.-based industrial designers) 81. Sustainable Fishery 82. T. Boone Pickens 83. Telepresence 84. Touch Screens 85. Twitter Copycats 87. Virtual Socializing 88. Widgets 89. Wikileaks 90. Xbox Streaming References: news.moneycentral.msnFiled In: |
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