Exploding Topics

Find Trends Before They Go Mainstream

Exploding Topics is an AI-powered trend discovery platform that identifies fast-growing topics, products, companies, and technologies months or years before they become widely known. Founded by Brian Dean of Backlinko, the platform analyzes data from across the web to surface trends in their early growth phase, giving entrepreneurs, investors, and marketers a significant first-mover advantage.

How Trend Discovery Works

Exploding Topics aggregates and analyzes search data, social mentions, news coverage, and other web signals to detect topics experiencing exponential growth. Each trend is categorized by growth stage, industry vertical, and projected trajectory. The platform covers thousands of categories from consumer products and software to biotech, finance, and emerging technologies.

• AI-powered trend detection across the entire web
• Growth stage classification: exploding, regular, peaked, or declining
• Industry-specific trend filtering and discovery
• Database of emerging companies in trending spaces

For Investors, Entrepreneurs, and Marketers

Exploding Topics is used by venture capital firms identifying the next big investment thesis, startup founders validating product ideas, content marketers finding high-growth topics to cover, and brand managers spotting consumer trends before competitors. The Meta Trends report synthesizes macro-level shifts driving multiple individual trends simultaneously.