Question: Can you recommend a tool that helps me stay on top of emerging trends and consumer behavior across various industries?

If you're looking for a tool to help you keep up with what's happening and what consumers are doing in different markets, Glimpse is a good option. It monitors millions of signals of consumer behavior and analyzes them to spot trends in health, fashion, finance and entertainment. The service offers a trend database with a broad range of trends updated daily, real-time alerts when trends are changing, and forecasting that's demonstrated good backtested results. It's good for market research, product development and marketing.

Another good option is Trend Hunter, a full-service platform that offers insights into what's happening in many markets. It uses a global network of more than 362,000 researchers and AI to offer daily trending topics, custom trend reports and a weekly newsletter. Its data-driven approach can help businesses develop better innovation strategies and make better decisions, so it's good for staying ahead of the curve.

TrendWatching’s Amplify platform also offers good trend intelligence. It includes a daily curated opportunity feed, a proprietary Trend Framework and an Innovation Database with more than 28,000 entries. The service offers in-depth consumer trend reports and industry reports, so it's good for developing better business strategies and driving innovation.

If you prefer an AI-infused service, Quid offers a collection of tools that offer a single view of customer behavior and market trends. Its tools include Quid Discover for trend visualization, Quid Monitor for real-time social media analysis and Quid Predict for spotting emerging themes. That makes it a good option for consumer insights, data science and marketing.