Accenture Life Trends 2025 Report
A 93-page Accenture Song trends report that pairs motion-blurred photographic dividers with clean white editorial text pages, two-tone purple headlines, and a vertical trend navigation rail.
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Life Trends 2025 cover

About this report

Research snapshot

Executive summary

Contents, five trends

Trend 1 divider, Cost of hesitations

Hesitation from distrust and generative AI

What's going on, hesitation reflex

Suggested, recommended, sponsored, for you?

Wait, is this real?

Fake websites, reviews and malvertising

Is this picture real?

Hyper-personalized harm

Brands are now on the hook to prove authenticity

What's next, prioritize trust

Decontaminating the ecosystem

The search for authenticity

Trust shapes brand interactions, quote

Responsibly seeking consent text page

The onus is now on brands statement page

Why this matters now (Trend 1) text page

We recommend (Trend 1) recommendations page

Trend 2 the parent trap section divider

The parent trap intro text spread

What's going on with a vertical photo sequence

Research and evidence three-column text page

Vulnerabilities text page with quote

Extreme behaviors and beliefs text page with quote

Unintended consequences three-column text page

Parents' demand for change text page with quote

What's next with vertical photo sequence and quote

Sentiment will continue to spread text page with quote

Difficult conversations at home text page

Unbundling may be coming statement and photo grid page

Brand strategies need a radical rethink text page

Why this matters now (Trend 2) with photo grid and quote

Trend 2 recommendations three-column

Trend 3 impatience economy divider

Impatience economy intro split text and image

What's going on with stacked photos and stat

Impatience drives jugaad text-dense with pull-quote

Proactive health three-column with pull-quote

Financial alternatives two-column with stacked photos and quote

Peer-to-peer finance three-column with purple pull-quote

Affordable joy headline with two stacked photos

Taking control of destiny statement over red checkout photo

What's next with stacked photos and 68.2% stat

Connection built through content three-column with purple statement

Personal touches two-column with stacked photos and quote

Areas of life ranked stat list with quote and photos

Motivations behind the actions with photos and purple statement

Why this matters now with photo grid and purple statement

Trend 3 recommendations three-column

Trend 4 the dignity of work divider

The dignity of work intro text over blue photo

What's going on with a 60% stat callout

Pandemic energy text columns with party photo

Employee emotional distancing text slide

Perceived organizational dehumanization with quote

The employee experience recession with warehouse photo

What's next with humanized leadership photo grid

The chain of humanization with teal quote

Use AI but value humanity text slide

AI accountability body copy with 60% stat

The productivity x efficiency equation slide

Jazz quote slide with bordered photo mosaic

Employee experience drives customer experience slide

Why this matters now with blue skyscraper mosaic

We recommend three-column recommendations slide

Trend 5 social rewilding full-bleed cover

Social rewilding intro text over warm photo

What's going on social rewilding with cyclist grid

Pre-digital nostalgia text-and-quote slide

Simple technology and physical activities stat slide

Real-world relationships text-and-quote slide

Grounded in culture and place text slide

What's next stacked-photos stat slide

Cost of hesitations stat-and-photo slide

Balancing digital with physical text slide

Connecting to something real text-and-quote slide

Using texture to drive loyalty text-and-quote slide

Stopping to smell the roses photo-and-statement slide

Why this matters now photo-grid slide

We recommend two-column recommendations slide

About Accenture Song two-column slide

Customer touchpoints three-column slide

Authors four-column profile slide

Contributors and acknowledgements name-list slide

Research methodology text-and-table slide

References numbered-citation slide

References bibliography page (three-column)

References bibliography page (two-column continuation)

About Accenture closing page (three-column)