Consumer Insights & Trends

January 30, 2024

Food Advertising Creative Taps Popular Trends From A.I. to Cannabis

In this quarter’s food marketing creative trends report, the “food meets fashion” trend continues with QSR brands collaborating with popular shoemakers. Meanwhile, AI continues to impact the CPG category, and mainstream restaurant chains court cannabis culture. Finally, Pop-Tarts wins the internet with a college bowl game victory stunt that goes…

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Consumer Insights & Trends Digital

November 28, 2023

Fast-Breaking, Ongoing, and Macro Trends: Which Ones Are Worth the Chase?

You might be skilled at capitalizing on macro trends in the food industry, like healthy eating, certain sauces and condiments, or flavor pairings. Fast-breaking trends? Not so much. When you do identify a trend on social media, it feels like you’re late to the party. And by the time you…

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Consumer Insights & Trends Food Campaigns

August 18, 2023

From Artificial Intelligence to Real World Comfort Cravers, Food Creative Embraces the Now

In this quarter’s Food Advertising Creative Trends report, QSR brands employ ChatGPT-written ads, CPG brand Impossible Foods creates a meatless musical, Branded commodity Milk PEP spoofs plant-based dairy alternatives, Kraft Foods gets massively comfortable with post-Covid cravings, and Heinz celebrates brand obsessed fans. Read on for more. McDonald’s/Burger King -…

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Consumer Insights & Trends

May 8, 2023

Food Advertising Aims to Prove Sex Sells, As Do Gaming and Rockstar Rodents

In this quarter’s food advertising creative trends report, CPG brand Pringles turns a hamster into a musical star, Oatly launches a plant-based Philadelphia cream cheese, and Velveeta places a late-night “foodie” call. Meanwhile, QSR Jimmy John’s serves up cookies and MILFS, BK recruits gamers for Call of Duty, and McDonald’s…

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Consumer Insights & Trends

February 10, 2023

Food Advertising Creative Closes Out 2022, Looks Toward Super Sunday

In this quarter’s food advertising creative roundup, CPG Liquid Death Water stages a “Taze” Test, Ocean Spray Cranberries get “jiggly” with it, and QSR Dave’s Hot Chicken markets FOMO while Dole pushes YOLO. Meanwhile, Chipotle uses AR to encourage people to stick with their resolutions, and snack brands begin to…

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Consumer Insights & Trends

December 20, 2022

4 Ways to Reduce the Impact of Food Inflation on Consumers — Without Cutting Your Prices

To cope with spiraling food costs during the inflation crisis, consumers are doing two things. First, they're finding different, cheaper supermarkets, like Lidl, Dollar General, Food4Less and Family Dollar. This means higher-end retailers like Sprouts, Wegmans, Fresh Market, Harris Teeter and Publix are lagging behind in in-person visits. Secondly, consumers…

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Consumer Insights & Trends

June 6, 2022

Consumer Demand for Convenience Knows No Bounds

Consumers have come to expect convenience in all their dealings--the ‘frictionless transaction’ in online shopping parlance. I recently visited Las Vegas for the first time since before the pandemic. I was driving from downtown to the Strip when I passed the section where all the wedding chapels are. I noticed…

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Consumer Insights & Trends Retail

September 8, 2021

Supermarkets in the Post-COVID World New Shopper Trends Impact Brick and Mortar

At the end of the movie The Candidate, Robert Redford turns to the consultant who just helped him get elected president of the United States and says, “What do we do now?” I think leaders in the supermarket industry probably feel the same way right now. With online grocery sales…

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Consumer Insights & Trends

August 19, 2021

From Languishing to Flourishing: 5 Health & Wellness Shifts Every Food Marketer Needs to Know

In April 2021, Adam Grant published a piece for the New York Times, “There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing,” in which he succinctly named the collective emotion of 2021. In response, Dani Blum wrote “The Other Side of Languishing Is Flourishing,” providing a proactive step-by-step…

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Consumer Insights & Trends

March 10, 2021

A Trend That Is Here To Stay: Plant-forward Food Consumption

The pandemic has caused many changes in consumer behavior, leading to discussion about how ephemeral those changes are, or alternatively if they are trends that have become 'the new normal'. Will everyone be baking their own bread from now on, or once commuting hours come back, will that fall by…

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