First Coined In 2018 Overtargeting trend icon

Overtargeting

Lured by the promise of big data, organizations segment audiences too narrowly and unintentionally end up abandoning large groups of potentially lucrative customers.

The 2018 Non-Obvious Trend Report, where Overtargeting was first coined

First published in the 2018 Non-Obvious Trend Report →

Trend Longevity Rating

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

How this trend held up

While businesses frequently and unnecessarily narrow their audience, in many cases it has not raised the major issues or challenges that we initially predicted.

Every past trend prediction is re-reviewed and graded with a Trend Longevity Rating, measuring how much each originally curated trend still matters years later.

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