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We scan TikTok and Instagram so you don't have to. Get the top trending songs, memes, and formats — with clear activation strategies for your brand.
10+ trends tracked weekly
Fresh briefs delivered every Monday
This week's Trend of the Week in our Aug 17 report. A participatory lip-dub: creators lip-sync the Spider-Verse origin monologue while jumping onto an off-camera stool and reaching one hand to the ceiling so they look stuck — a second person enters the frame acting shocked. The two biggest originals have passed 85–91M views since early August, and KYM added it as its newest tracked entry on Aug 13.
Brand Angle
Recreate the visual gag with original talent and your own audio: one team member 'stuck to the ceiling' one-handed, legs off-camera, a shocked teammate entering frame. $0 budget, half-day shoot — or the product-as-hero variant (a sneaker or backpack stuck to the ceiling).
Rights Check
Sony/Marvel IP: do NOT use Spider-Verse film audio, footage, or Spider-Man imagery — recreate the ceiling-stuck visual only. Entry window closes fast: the report expects saturation within 10–14 days.
A sample from this week's brief — subscribers get a fresh one every Monday.
From signal to activation in four steps
We scan trending content daily across TikTok & Instagram, tracking songs, memes, formats, and cultural signals as they emerge.
We filter out the noise and surface only the top opportunities — the trends with real brand-activation potential.
You get an actionable brief with specific activation ideas for your brand, so you can move fast while the window is open.
Every trend comes with IP and rights cautions so you never publish creative that lands your brand in trouble — plus a Trend Health Index showing whether it's Rising or Peaking.
A preview of what subscribers receive every week
The 'orchestrating events' reaction format. Self-aware mastermind energy.
Brand Angle
"Us quietly steering the campaign / the algorithm / the launch" — use original stills or recreate; verify rights.
Intentionally cheap fancam edits. Zero production cost, maximum culture.
Brand Angle
"Low-effort" fancam of your brand mascot or product — avoid actual Marvel/Backrooms IP.
Summer 2026's most-used TikTok sound. Accuracy Reenactments everywhere.
Brand Angle
Comedic audio cue in a genuinely funny spot — not for serious categories. Verify the sound is clearable before publishing.
July MOTM winner. The internet's favorite stubby creature.
Brand Angle
"Small stubby creature doing its best" — one post/week max, credit the original.
Full reports include 15+ trends, activation playbooks, and what NOT to do — delivered weekly.
Today's Trends is built for DTC brands and marketing teams targeting Gen Z & younger Millennials. If your audience lives on TikTok and Instagram, you need to be there — not with reactive, last-week content, but with timely, culturally-resonant creative that lands.
Your team spends hours doom-scrolling for trends. We do it for you, so you can focus on creating content that actually lands.
The trend window is 3–7 days. Our briefs give you the head start you need to publish before the moment passes.

Shawn Schmidt
Founder & creator of Today's Trends“I built Today's Trends because my DTC clients were spending hours doom-scrolling for trends that closed before content got approved.”
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Weekly trend reports + activation playbooks
Less than one hour of your social manager's time. One trend report saves 5+ hours of doom-scrolling every week.
Deep dives on the formats, memes, and moments worth your attention.
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Read articleMost platform trends arrive as a sound, a filter, or a clip you have to license or remake to join. Once in a while, a trend arrives as something far more portable: a *phrase*. That is why the kinda...
Read articleMost viral moments die in the feed the same day they appear. A handful survive — not as a single clip, but as a *format* that strangers keep re-editing for weeks after the original has stopped matt...
Read articleQuick answers about how the weekly brief works
Scrolling gives you a feed of whatever's popular for you personally — not a curated, prioritized view of what's worth your brand's time or how to act on it. Every week we package the top trending songs, memes, formats, and cultural moments from primary sources into a single readable brief, with brand-ready activation ideas for each trend. Instead of maintaining your own listening team or doom-scrolling to piece it together, you get a curated, time-dated brief you can skim in minutes.
No. You just read the brief. There's no platform login, setup, or account required on your end — the trends come from our research pipeline, and each brief lands in your inbox ready to use.
Trends are sourced weekly from primary trend sources — Know Your Meme and Hootsuite Social Trends — with supplemental TikTok sampling, and every brief is time-dated. Each trend comes with a Trend Health Index showing whether it's rising or peaking, plus its activation window, so you can act while the moment is still open.
Each trend ships with brand-ready activation ideas you can adapt to your product, plus clear "what NOT to do" IP and rights cautions so you avoid the traps other brands hit. Open the brief, pick the trends that fit your brand, and hand the activation notes straight to your creative team.
No — it's month-to-month. Both plans are monthly subscriptions via Stripe (Basic at $49/month, Premium at $149/month) and you can cancel anytime. There's also a 14-day money-back guarantee: if the first two reports don't save your team hours of scrolling, we'll refund you, no questions asked.
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