Market Trends
Demand shifts build slowly and rarely announce themselves. Surface changes in seasonality and sub-category movement while there’s still time to respond, rather than after a competitor has already capitalized on them.
Example Questions
- “Why is my competitor gaining share?”
- “What trends are emerging in the category right now?”
- “Is this a category-wide trend or specific to a few brands?”
- “Is the recent spike in demand for [category] seasonal, or is it a structural shift — and which brands are capturing the new demand?”
- “Which sub-categories within [category] are growing while the parent category is flat, and what does that imply about where demand is shifting?”
- “Compare this year’s seasonal peak to last year’s — did it come earlier, later, or bigger, and which brands capitalized on it first?”
Frequently Asked Questions
It detects shifts in demand within a category: seasonal changes, sub-categories growing while the parent category is flat, and which brands are capturing new demand. The goal is to spot a shift early enough to act before a competitor does.
Category Sizing gives you the market’s size and growth rate. Market Trends explains what’s moving inside that number, like a seasonal peak arriving earlier or one sub-category surging.
Yes, and that distinction is central to the output. A broad shift calls for a category-level response, while a shift concentrated in a few competitors points to something they’re doing differently.
Yes. It compares current demand to prior seasons, so you can see whether a spike matches last year’s pattern or is a structural change, and which brands benefited first.
It focuses on recent movement over weeks and months, and compares against prior years for seasonality.
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