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Trend Radar 📡

Catching viral moments before they peak, so marketing teams can create magic for their brands while the moment is still rising — live signals from Reddit, X, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn coverage, and Google Trends.

Last updated 2026-11-13 07:28 · auto-generated

Built for marketing teams. Scan what’s rising → skip anything flagged ⚠️ (sensitive moments are for monitoring, not brand content) → hit ✨ Brand angles on any trend to copy a ready-to-paste creative brief for Claude or ChatGPT, tailored to your brand. Most trends have a 24–48 hour window — move fast.

🎯 Worth a marketer’s attention right now

Auto-curated top signals from this run: cross-platform confirmations, open meme windows, and thought-leadership angles.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns, in stunning fall from grace after two extramarital affairs
trending on X and rising on Reddit at the same time — cross-platform confirmation, move now
What's going on with all the widespread data breaches and hacking over the last few weeks?
people are actively asking what's going on — the window to join (or meme) the conversation is open
What did bro send me 💀
rising fast on r/memes — relatable brand-content material while it's fresh
Absolute degenerate behavior
rising fast on r/memes — relatable brand-content material while it's fresh
Jensen Huang resigns
fastest riser on Hacker News (725.3 pts+comments/hr) — good LinkedIn thought-leadership angle

🌊 Viral & culture radar

r/all rising, r/OutOfTheLoop, r/PopCultureChat, r/memes, Know Your Meme — where viral moments (tower climbers, red-card memes…) surface first. RISING = accelerating right now.

RISING What did bro send me 💀
r/memes · 4.8h ago
RISING A necessary inconvenience 😕
r/memes · 6.3h ago
RISING What’s up with 11 Democrats not showing up to vote about Pete Hegseth?
r/OutOfTheLoop · 26.2h ago
RISING Absolute degenerate behavior
r/memes · 3.4h ago
RISING Anne Hathaway wishes her birthday twin, Ryan Gosling, a happy birthday
r/popculturechat · 5.2h ago
RISING What's up with South Park now being titled "South America"?
r/OutOfTheLoop · 19.3h ago
RISING Yeah not yet, guy, not yet
r/memes · 6.5h ago
RISING Bella Hadid calls on people not to look away from Gaza's humanitarian crisis, donating $50,000 to help displaced families.
r/popculturechat · 8.6h ago
⚠️ sensitive — monitor, don’t brandjack
RISING What is the deal with people bullying Ayesha Curry?
r/OutOfTheLoop · 18.5h ago
RISING Illegal is the new rich
r/memes · 8.6h ago
RISING What’s going on with the DCU?
r/OutOfTheLoop · 35.5h ago
RISING Shawn Mendes speaks out in support of Palestine in new Instagram post
r/popculturechat · 8.2h ago
RISING And even having insurance only makes it 3500.
r/memes · 9.3h ago
RISING What’s Up With Everyone Mourning The Edmund Fitzgerald all of a sudden??
r/OutOfTheLoop · 47.0h ago
RISING Alysa Liu for Issue 1 - Fall 2026; Photography by Spike Jonze
r/popculturechat · 7.0h ago
RISING A third affair?
r/memes · 9.6h ago

🐦 X/Twitter — trending in the US right now

Live trends via getdaytrends.com; each links to the live search on X.

MicrosoftPence#Chilis3ForMeNVIDIASalimSantanderJensen HuangYoung LYordan AlvarezBlue JaysPete Crow-ArmstrongAL MVPHusky StadiumThursday Night FootballSonicWolfenstein 3MatPat#MVPeteStreamer AwardsMark Shapiro

📱 Platform pulse — TikTok · Instagram · Facebook · LinkedIn · YouTube

These platforms have no open APIs, so this tracks fresh press coverage of viral moments on each (Google News, last 48h) — usually hours behind the platform, days ahead of your competitors.

TikTok

He invades pickup basketball games to become the ref. The videos go viral - USA Today
TikTok · 9.0h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)
Is Brain Stacking, TikTok’s New Trend, the Cure to Doomscrolling? - The New York Times
TikTok · 16.6h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)
Viral TikTok trend raises questions about kids’ exposure to online content - Yahoo
TikTok · 18.9h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)
Three adults, four juveniles trespassed after attempted Elephant Bar break-in 'Tik Tok challenge' - Citrus Heights Sentinel
TikTok · 23.6h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)
Domino Sugars sign temporarily shut off after TikTok trend trespasser incident - CBS News
TikTok · 27.0h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)

Instagram

Viral Sensations Brandon and Blair Dottin-Haley Take Their Instagram Hit to Radio - GLAAD
Instagram · 14.7h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)
Video of rams lounging on a Colorado front lawn like they're on vacation goes viral on Instagram | OutKick - Fox News
Instagram · 16.0h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)
‘We were quite surprised’: Finland’s embassy in Australia goes viral with staff training day post on Instagram - The Guardian
Instagram · 34.4h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)

Facebook

Yesterday's Viral Clip Explained - Facebook
Facebook · 13.2h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)
Ben Shapiro. . Yesterday's Viral Clip Explained - Facebook
Facebook · 13.2h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)
AI trend: What makes AI-generated dramas so addictive to Filipino viewers? - ABS-CBN
Facebook · 16.3h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)
A viral video shows two horses boarding a Detroit transit bus. Here is the story behind the stunt. - Facebook
Facebook · 39.0h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)

LinkedIn

Detroit Department of Transportation to retrain all bus drivers after horses board Detroit bus in viral video - WXYZ Channel 7
LinkedIn · 8.0h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)
Repeat Profile Visitor Labels: LinkedIn Flags Frequent Profile Viewers for Select Premium… - Trend Hunter
LinkedIn · 12.8h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)
AI Shelf Report: Edición Buen Fin 2026 - Reshaping Mexican Retail - Mexico Business News
LinkedIn · 14.5h ago
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public
A sunny, dry Thursday with a cooling trend kicking off - KXXV
LinkedIn · 18.7h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)

YouTube

Pauly Shore Faces a Monster That Hunts Anxiety in Viral Horror Short ‘Remain Calm’ - iHorror
YouTube · 8.9h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)
How to Rob a Bank turns viral YouTube culture into messy crime caper - CultureMap Dallas
YouTube · 13.5h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)
YouTube’s Wildest Golf Tournament Mints Star Creators. Its Founder Explains How It Really Works - The Hollywood Reporter
YouTube · 14.4h ago
🏟 Sports momentreact in real time — score takes, fan POV, brand-as-fan content
Landblubber newsman: Portland newscaster reflects on viral ‘exploding whale’ story - Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB
YouTube · 17.0h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)
Ex-Navy SEAL MrBallen’s first viral video hit while he was at a water park with his kids. Now he has 11.4 million subscribers and a SiriusXM deal - Fortune
YouTube · 47.2h ago
😂 Meme formatadapt the format to your brand before it saturates (24h window)

⚡ Keyword spikes

Keywords surging across all sources vs. your 15-day baseline — the earliest signal here.

pete NEW
4 mentions today · baseline 0.0/day · 8.0x
resigns NEW
4 mentions today · baseline 0.0/day · 8.0x
jensen huang
5 mentions today · baseline 0.1/day · 7.9x
huang
5 mentions today · baseline 0.3/day · 6.5x
jensen
5 mentions today · baseline 0.3/day · 6.0x
shakira
3 mentions today · baseline 0.0/day · 6.0x
nvidia ceo
3 mentions today · baseline 0.0/day · 6.0x
huang resigns
3 mentions today · baseline 0.0/day · 6.0x
bus
3 mentions today · baseline 0.0/day · 6.0x
works
3 mentions today · baseline 0.0/day · 6.0x
land
3 mentions today · baseline 0.0/day · 6.0x
tiktok trend
3 mentions today · baseline 0.0/day · 6.0x
notice
3 mentions today · baseline 0.0/day · 6.0x
follower
3 mentions today · baseline 0.0/day · 6.0x
review
5 mentions today · baseline 0.5/day · 5.2x

🏆 Award watch — the Cannes lens

Grand Prix work is built on a cultural tension a brand acts on first, not on meme velocity. What the creative press has claimed, and what it hasn’t.

Cannes & Grand Prix

Caviar in a Racing Helmet Is Only the Beginning: Your Complete Guide to the 2026 Las Vegas Grand Prix - Haute Living
Cannes & Grand Prix · 22.4h ago
🏟 Sports momentreact in real time — score takes, fan POV, brand-as-fan content
Disco Dom, Icona Pop Lead 2026 Las Vegas Grand Prix Heineken Stage Lineup - TicketNews
Cannes & Grand Prix · 31.9h ago
🏟 Sports momentreact in real time — score takes, fan POV, brand-as-fan content
BLACKYAK Wins Grand Prix at ISPO Amsterdam 2026, A Testament to Its Mountain-Driven Innovation - Yahoo Finance
Cannes & Grand Prix · 55.2h ago
🏟 Sports momentreact in real time — score takes, fan POV, brand-as-fan content
FIA chief says Qatar and Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to go ahead despite tensions - Al Jazeera
Cannes & Grand Prix · 65.2h ago
🏟 Sports momentreact in real time — score takes, fan POV, brand-as-fan content

Award wins

The Clio Awards Announce 2027 Jury And Debut New ‘Notice Greatness’ Campaign - Roastbrief US
Award wins · 10.7h ago
🎬 Culture momentcultural commentary, duet/stitch, or a partnership angle
The Clio Awards Painted a Creator Gold in Its 2027 Call for Entries Campaign - Muse by Clio
Award wins · 13.2h ago
🎬 Culture momentcultural commentary, duet/stitch, or a partnership angle

Craft & case studies

Marquette’s Office of Marketing and Communication receives four Best of District V awards from CASE - Marquette Today
Craft & case studies · 11.1h ago
🎬 Culture momentcultural commentary, duet/stitch, or a partnership angle
Top App Marketing Companies (2026) - Business of Apps
Craft & case studies · 95.2h ago
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public

Creative press

Week of Nov 2 Evening News Ratings: Election News Lifts Newscasts
Adweek · 10.3h ago
⚠️ sensitive — monitor, don’t brandjack
British Airways Parent IAG Bets Big on Advertising
Adweek · 11.2h ago

🚀 Marketing communities — rising

r/marketing, r/socialmedia, r/DigitalMarketing, r/GrowthHacking, r/SEO, r/content_marketing.

RISING a support software vendor's blog was a source in 13 of 70 AI answers, but the vendor only got recommended in 3
r/content_marketing · 1.8h ago
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public
RISING Peekaboo AI Review - Pros & Cons after 30 days
r/GrowthHacking · 1.9h ago
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public
RISING Are employees required to appear in social media?
r/DigitalMarketing · 2.0h ago
RISING Before you pay an agency for "AI visibility", ask what they're actually doing
r/SEO · 12.5h ago
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public
Any alternative social media platforms/ sites that don’t use ai?
r/socialmedia · 0.2h ago
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public
RISING Rankyak - Pros & Cons after 30 days
r/GrowthHacking · 2.7h ago
RISING How do I approach SEO for several large sites with AI-generated summaries?
r/SEO · 7.8h ago
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public
Google Efficiency Collapse
r/marketing · 10.9h ago
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public
RISING Spent €90 on ads, got 1070 landing page clicks, but almost no conversions.
r/DigitalMarketing · 15.5h ago
RISING When did every brand start sounding like the same person?
r/content_marketing · 17.5h ago
RISING What is the best AI UGC platform at the moment?
r/DigitalMarketing · 7.9h ago
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public
RISING See this agencies ✈️
r/content_marketing · 8.2h ago
RISING linkedin ban me for getting too much contacts manually. what should i do
r/GrowthHacking · 12.8h ago
growing x from 0 in 2026, what actually works for you?
r/socialmedia · 14.2h ago
RISING Search impressions went to 0 from over 1000s a day
r/SEO · 19.9h ago

🟠 Hacker News — marketing, social & viral, last 48h

Tech-crowd conversations often lead mainstream coverage by days.

Jensen Huang resigns [HN thread]
Hacker News · 2966 pts · 2802 com · 11.8h old · 🚀 725.3/hr
Tim Peters has died [HN thread]
Hacker News · 1396 pts · 187 com · 42.6h old · 🚀 41.5/hr
⚠️ sensitive — monitor, don’t brandjack
Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO immediately [HN thread]
Hacker News · 374 pts · 14 com · 11.8h old · 🚀 34.2/hr
Turning a 22-year-old Postgres type-confusion primitive into RCE [HN thread]
Hacker News · 145 pts · 20 com · 7.3h old · 🚀 25.3/hr
Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola [HN thread]
Hacker News · 285 pts · 111 com · 34.1h old · 🚀 14.9/hr
AWS Lambda Web Functions keep billing memory ~7 minutes after the last request [HN thread]
Hacker News · 66 pts · 28 com · 8.7h old · 🚀 14.0/hr
Show HN: Kapso – Iterative learning from enterprise data
Hacker News · 37 pts · 9 com · 7.8h old · 🚀 7.0/hr
Launch HN: Pomerado (YC F26) – Turn any website into an MCP for agents
Hacker News · 60 pts · 47 com · 32.5h old · 🚀 4.7/hr
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public
The Confidential Payments Meta and TikTok Made to Addicted Teens [HN thread]
Hacker News · 26 pts · 2 com · 10.4h old · 🚀 2.9/hr
Tech Allies Rally Behind Jensen Huang, Calling Him Vital in AI Race (Gift Link) [HN thread]
Hacker News · 17 pts · 18 com · 32.6h old · 🚀 1.6/hr
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public

🔍 Google Trends — trending US searches

What the general public is searching right now.

arvell reese
Google Trends · 2000++ searches
austin ekeler
Google Trends · 1000++ searches
antonio williams
Google Trends · 1000++ searches
dan quinn
Google Trends · 500++ searches
microsoft playback
Google Trends · 500++ searches
rj barrett
Google Trends · 500++ searches
météo demain
Google Trends · 500++ searches
focker in law release
Google Trends · 5000++ searches
abdul carter
Google Trends · 200++ searches
charles manson
Google Trends · 200++ searches

📰 Fresh from the trades (last 48h)

Social Media Today, Marketing Dive, Search Engine Journal.

Google Ads Rolls Out New Invalid Traffic Overview Card via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson
Search Engine Journal · 4.7h ago
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public
Google Makes Gemini 4 Hydrogen The Default Model In AI Mode via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Search Engine Journal · 5.5h ago
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public
Does The Affiliate Model Survive Checkout Inside AI Mode And Gemini? – Ask An SEO via @sejournal, @rollerblader
Search Engine Journal · 5.7h ago
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public
Sociable: Meta’s AI ads included unapproved discounts
Marketing Dive · 8.3h ago
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public
How to Submit Your Website to ChatGPT Business Hub via @sejournal, @vahandev
Search Engine Journal · 12.5h ago
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public
Don’t Let A Tool Lead Your AI Search Strategy – Own Your Data Instead via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW
Search Engine Journal · 12.7h ago
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public
AI Shopping Errors: What To Fix To Help Shoppers Choose Your Products
Search Engine Journal · 19.7h ago
🚀 Tech/productthought-leadership take, comparison content, build-in-public
Thought leadership remains highly valuable for B2B buyers
Social Media Today · 26.0h ago