Trend cluster
Category

Purposeful
Sticker

Brands are creating stickers that improve wellness.

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What's Happening

What is the Purposeful Sticker trend?

Purposeful Sticker: Traditionally stickers have been used for decoration, labels, and other functional purposes but now they're being used to influence and impact the lives of consumers. Brands are leveraging these adhesives to educate consumers to a healthier lifestyle. This encourages consumer mindfulness in a convenient way that doesn't impede with day-to-day rituals.

Insight

The consumer insight behind the Purposeful Sticker trend

Many younger consumers, especially Millennials, value healthy and active lifestyles more than previous generations, and they connect with brands that share their passion for health and wellness. This same group of consumers also place a premium on authentic, and sometimes unconventional, branding.

Workshop question

How can your brand tweak a commonly used item to possess functional benefits?

Trend themes

Themes within the Purposeful Sticker trend

Three behaviours holding the trend together
01

Wellness Stickers

Brands are using stickers to influence and impact the lives of consumers, by leveraging adhesives to educate consumers to a healthier lifestyle.

02

Simplified Nutritional Value Messaging

Food companies are simplifying nutritional information with small stickers that highlight the vitamin content of fruits and vegetables.

03

Interactive Fitness Stickers

Companies are using stickers to promote fitness, with simple exercise challenges intended to help consumers lead healthier lifestyles.

Industry implications

What the Purposeful Sticker trend means for industry

Where the trend changes the playbook
For

Wellness Industry

Brands can create or incorporate stickers to promote wellness and healthy lifestyles.

For

Food Industry

Food companies can use stickers to help promote nutritional value and information for produce, and promote healthy eating.

For

Fitness Industry

Fitness companies can use interactive stickers to promote their brand, engage consumers, and encourage healthy lifestyles.

Trend signals

Trend signals for Purposeful Sticker

Trend score 5.1 out of 10, from popularity 80%, activity 66%, freshness 8%.

Popularity80%
Activity66%
Freshness8%
Audience
50%Men
50%Women
  • Gen Alpha
  • Gen Z
  • Millennial
  • Gen X
  • Boomer (not a primary audience)
Market
North America
Europe
Asia-Pacific