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Trends 2018: NEW EXPECTATIONS. NEW OPPORTUNITIES.

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What will your brand do?

People’s expectations are constantly being reshaped, rewired and remodeled by new and innovative experiences with media, peers, technology and brands. Brands that don’t deliver experiences that meet or exceed these rapidly changing expectations are increasingly being ignored, brushed aside or deemed irrelevant.

How do we keep pace? Use the trends changing the landscape to change and accelerate our own thinking.

Trends show us those shifting customer expectations. They reveal data and clues about changing habits and preferences. They uncover brands that are making unique connections and getting to white spaces first. We use trends to challenge how we go to market and continually innovate every aspect of customer experience.

This year, we worked with more than 250 trend spotters from across the Syneos Health Communications global footprint to identify the shifts most relevant to healthcare marketers. These trend spotters work on the front lines of our business to bring us real-world insight and clues from across the industry and well beyond it.

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CONSUMER: Expectations created by media, peers and entertainment

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DIGITAL: Behavior changes influenced by technology, tools and devices

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MARKETING: Shifts in how brands are earning time, attention and loyalty

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HEALTHCARE: New realities in accessing, giving and receiving healthcare

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COMMERCIAL: New voices and value equations shaping the market landscape

2018 CONSUMER TRENDS

01 Spit Stories

02 Nickel And Dimed

03 Faster Than Real-Time

04 Widespread Panic

05 Go Daddies!

06 Fired Up

07 Let’s Be Direct

08 The New Neutral

09 Gen Z Swagger

10 The Right Fit(ness)

11 Cognitive Edge

12 Plant People

13 Gender Flips

14 The Health Elites

15 Choose (Your) Life

2018 DIGITAL TRENDS

01 The Human Ux

02 QR Codes Will BRB

03 Hey, Carebot

04 You, More Awesome 

05 Mal(ware) Practice

06 App-ing EHR

07 A New Memory for Data

08 Augmenting Care and Marketing

09 Let’s Chat

10 ReLearning User Experience

11 Now You See It...

12 100 Percent Skepticism

13 Out of Proportion

14 Mindful of Me

15 Artificial Intelligence + Real Patients

2018 MARKETING TRENDS

01 Mini Stars

02 Nostalgia’s Coming Back!

03 Acting with Purpose

04 Fit Me in

05 Cinematic Storytelling

06 Premarketing

07 Revolutionizing Recruitment

08 Better Experience in Store

09 Keepable Comms

10 Gone in Six Seconds

11 Love the Humans

12 Personal Plays

13 $$traight Talk

14 Blockbuster Boldness

15 Interfering with Indifference

2018 HEALTHCARE TRENDS

01 For the Love of Science

02 Women in (Real) Pain

03 Doubling Down on Medical Affairs

04 Home Delivery

05 Teaming Up Pharmacist and Physician

06 Living Normal

07 War for Drugs

08 Reform (and Reinvention) Ready

09 Medical Data Deluge

10 Accelerating Orphan Response

11 Divided Interests

12 Alternative to Alternatives

13 Dispensable Docs

14 Rise of the Illiterati

15 experiMental Health

2018 COMMERCIAL TRENDS

01 Medical Muscle

02 Paying for Value

03 Exceptional Consumer Control

04 Commercial Endpoints

05 AI as Investigator

06 Predictive Planning

07 New Commercialization Expectations

08 Swell of Stranded Assets

09 From Patient-Centricity to Patient Intimacy

10 No More Sales Reps?

11 Revising the Journey

12 Rapidly Evolving Rare

13 Integrated Customer Engagement

14 Infrastructure Reset

15 Podium Pounding and a New Era for Advocacy

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