Scrunchies are back, TikTok dance challenges are now YouTube entertainment, and Old Town Road is your new favourite song.
Through PopJam, our kid-safe content sharing platform, we constantly keep an eye on the latest kids trends. We don’t collect data from PopJammers, but we do watch what the community is interested in. You can check out out our report for Q1 Kids Trends here and our blog on Gacha and Dollify here. Luckily, Momo has disappeared, but memes, magic and Gacha still remain incredibly popular among the under-13 audience. Read More
Kids’ major online concerns are hackers, bullying and seeing something inappropriate, but we have a lot to learn from their ‘lesser’ worries. Read More
Three adult platforms (YouTube, TikTok and Fortnite) continue to influence 2019's kids trends. Read More
Generation Alpha are the new focus for marketers world-wide, with kids born in 2010 or later exerting a powerful influence on household spending. In a recent survey by Hotwire 81% of parents in the US reported that the opinions of their children played a significant role in their spending, particularly when it came to tech. Generation Alpha are influencing household decisions all year round - but never more so than during the all-important back-to-school period. Read More
Are dolls going digital? PopJammers are going crazy about Gacha and Dollify.
PopJam, our safe-social platform for under 13s, has always been a place for kids to share their latest trends in a safe and creative community. Read More
SuperAwesome was proud to be one of the 2000+ organisations supporting this year’s Safer Internet Day. Read More
Gone are the days where parents made all the decisions about what their families wore. With kids spending more and more time online, interacting both with brands and with their peers, what they wear and where it’s from is an important part of how they present themselves. Kids of this generation also have a much greater degree of digital financial independence, thanks to apps like Go Henry, and so digital spending no longer necessarily comes directly through the parents. Read More
At SuperAwesome, when it comes to kids trends, we like to go straight to the experts for their opinions (and drawings). Last year, we asked PopJam’s community to predict 2018’s biggest kids trends, and they accurately called out that slime, unicorns, fidget toys, squishies and iPhones would be the biggest hits of 2018.
When we checked in with the community for 2019’s kids trends, many kids predicted similar strands filtering through into next year. However, increasingly, kids are moving away from obsession with tangible objects like squishies, and directing their attention to the digital.
Here’s what the community called out for 2019: Read More
Want to know which trends will be driving kids crazy in 2018? Then you need to ask the experts - the kids themselves! Read More
This generation of kids are growing up in a digital environment defined by privacy laws preventing usage of their personal data. This is an entirely new chapter for the internet. Read More