First Coined In 2012 Medici Marketing trend icon

Medici Marketing

Inspired by the book The Medici Effect, this trend describes how thinking from multiple disciplines is combined to make marketing more engaging, creative, or useful.

The 2012 Non-Obvious Trend Report, where Medici Marketing was first coined

First published in the 2012 Non-Obvious Trend Report →

Trend Longevity Rating

B+ Graded B+ in 2026 ·
a strong prediction that largely held up

How this trend held up

Though the book is still excellent, the name was too limiting to describe the scope of this trend-but the idea that marketing is (and should be) a melting pot for multidisciplinary thinking continues.

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