
- Oct 4, 2017
- 2 min
A year living social trends: October, I’m automating my life
Every month this year, we’re living a different trend, identifiable through social. But you know that… This month, we’re tackling one of the most interesting, broadest, and longest term trends: automating your life. What do we mean by this? The trend is services which either do things for you, or tell you what to do, based on your data and lifestyle. Why do people want this? It simplifies things, allowing their needs to be better met, and their time to be used more efficientl

- Sep 30, 2017
- 2 min
Can social media predict the best gym experience in London?
This month we have been living ‘life resets’, and as a keen gym goer I jumped at the chance to try out the most up and coming socially recommended gyms. The gym is a hot topic of conversation on social media; over a 90 day period the ‘gym’ was mentioned a whopping 1.3 million times in the UK across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook! Unsurprisingly January dominates this conversation with 496,700 mentions although, September comes a close second at 447,000 mentions in total. I m


- Sep 27, 2017
- 2 min
A YEAR LIVING SOCIAL TRENDS: SEPTEMBER, HITTING THE RESET BUTTON
Ah September. You bring stormy weather (thunder and lightning occur most frequently in the 9th month of the year), spiders and that tingly back to school feeling. What is it about this time of year that gets us reaching for the reset button? I didn’t schedule the start of my new job at OneFifty with our blog themes in mind, but it does seem like a funny coincidence I’ve decided to leap into a fresh new environment in September. Or is it? After a huge spike the week following


- Sep 6, 2017
- 3 min
A year living social trends: September is the Life Reset
Another month, another trend. Here at OneFifty, we’re continuing to live social trends, with veganism, gin, outdoor cinema, and craft beer amongst ones we’ve experienced so far this year – purely for research purposes, of course. As summer draws to a rather underwhelming conclusion this year, most people will consider September a fairly drab month where it’s too late to hope for a bit more sunshine, but too soon to start posting Christmas memes on Facebook. What did we all do