Exploding Topics

Discover and evaluate emerging trends, products, startups, and markets to support more timely business, investment, and content decisions.

Research search demand, assess competitors, find SEO issues, and check brand visibility with free tools for online strategy planning.

Continuous monitoring and analysis of market and technology trends to inform strategic planning, roadmap prioritization and early opportunity identification.

Products: Exploding Topics Pro

Identification and evaluation of emerging products using search demand, sales estimates, pricing, reviews, and social performance signals to inform product selection.

Products: Exploding Topics Pro

Improve organic search visibility and technical site health through keyword research, technical optimization, local SEO, and content opportunity identification.

Products: Free SEO and research tools

Analysis of competitor website traffic, search rankings, backlinks, content, and paid search activity to benchmark performance and identify competitive gaps.

Products: Free SEO and research tools

Auditing and improving company discoverability in AI-generated answers through citation tracking, competitor comparisons, technical recommendations and AI-readable profiles.

Products: Free SEO and research tools

Exploding Topics Pro

Exploding Topics Pro is a subscription trend intelligence platform for discovering emerging topics, products, startups, and markets before they become mainstream. It combines a searchable database of more than 1.1 million trends with analysis, tracking, forecasting, channel insights, and expert-curated market context. Users can explore growth and search metrics, identify related opportunities, monitor signals from sources across the internet, and access plan-dependent startup data, forecasts, CSV exports, and trend reports. The platform also offers TikTok Insights and API access as add-ons. TikTok Insights provides product discovery and performance metrics for TikTok, while the API provides structured trend data for integrations, dashboards, and workflows.

• Discover Emerging Trends Earlier
  Explore a large, searchable collection of under-the-radar topics and investigate topics that are not yet listed, helping users find potential opportunities before they become mainstream.
• Monitor Trends As They Grow
  Keep selected trends organized and follow changes in their data over time, so teams can monitor developing opportunities without manually updating spreadsheets.
• Assess Where Trends May Be Headed
  Review projected trend trajectories and related indicators to help evaluate whether an opportunity may continue growing, remain stationary, or decline.
• Find Products With Growing Demand
  Evaluate products using growth history and supporting sales and marketplace data, then filter opportunities by category, timeframe, and other criteria to support product and inventory decisions.
• Discover Emerging TikTok Products Early
  Surface products gaining TikTok views and post activity, then focus on relevant categories and compare social momentum with longer-term search interest. The add-on is available for an additional fee.
• Validate TikTok Momentum Against Search Trends
  Compare current TikTok activity with longer-term search growth to assess whether a product's interest may have staying power beyond a short-lived spike.
• Surface And Validate Early Trend Signals
  Combine automated analysis of signals from online sources with human review and context, helping users focus on trends assessed for relevance rather than relying only on unexplained data spikes.
• Evaluate Trends With Key Indicators
  Use standardized indicators and categories to assess trend behavior and find topics relevant to a market, industry, or business.
• Identify Where Trend Interest Comes From
  Compare the channels associated with a trend to understand where conversations and audience engagement are taking place and inform channel planning.
• Connect Micro Trends To Larger Shifts
  See how individual emerging trends relate to broader market movements, read research-team analysis, and explore adjacent opportunities that may otherwise be overlooked.
• Identify High-Growth Startups Earlier
  Find emerging companies and assess their growth signals and available company details to support investment research, competitive monitoring, and opportunity sourcing.
• Assess TikTok Product Performance
  Review post counts, views, likes, growth trends, hashtags, and top-viewed videos to evaluate product activity and the content associated with its TikTok performance.
• Automate Trend Research Workflows
  Send trend data into connected apps and build scheduled or multi-step workflows for alerts, spreadsheets, tasks, reports, and updated content, reducing repeated manual research and data handling.
• Integrate Relevant Trend Data Into Business Tools
  Retrieve and filter structured trend intelligence programmatically, then use it in custom dashboards, applications, and workflows alongside other business metrics. API access requires a Business plan and a separate API package.
• Export And Share Trend Findings
  Use plan-dependent CSV export to work with trend data outside the platform, and access trend reports on Business plans.

Free SEO and research tools

A collection of free online tools for keyword research, AI discovery, competitor intelligence, link building, and performance tracking. Use them to explore search demand, generate and evaluate keywords, check rankings and search results, audit SEO, review backlinks and website traffic, and assess brand visibility across AI platforms.

• Generate And Evaluate Keyword Ideas
  Expand seed terms into related keyword ideas and assess search metrics and filters to inform content and SEO planning.
• Audit Pages For SEO Issues
  Get a site or page health report with prioritized issues and practical fixes to support SEO improvements.
• Benchmark Competitor Performance
  Compare competitor traffic, keywords, backlinks, pages, and other reported metrics to understand performance and identify potential content or SEO opportunities.
• Measure Keyword Competition
  Evaluate ranking difficulty and review competitor search-result metrics to help prioritize search terms.
• Check Website Keyword Rankings
  See which keywords a site ranks for and review position and traffic-related metrics for each term.
• Check AI Brand Visibility
  Compare a brand's visibility with a competitor across AI platforms and review results and potential visibility gaps.
• Review Backlink Profiles
  Evaluate a site's link profile using domain authority, backlink quality, referring domains, and other reported link metrics.
• Measure Website Traffic
  Review visits, engagement, traffic sources, and organic reach to understand and compare website performance.
• Analyze Search Results
  Review websites appearing for a target keyword and assess reported authority, links, and traffic; preview how a Google listing may appear before publication.
• Find Buyer-Intent Keywords
  Identify product-related search terms with buyer intent for e-commerce keyword research.
• Check Google Rankings
  Review a site's Google position using live rank-checking data.
• Track Global Keyword Rankings
  Check website rankings across a worldwide keyword database.
• Check Agent And AI Access
  Assess page readability for agents, AI crawler access, and whether AI agents can access and cite a website, helping identify areas that may need attention.
• Review Competitor Ad Activity
  See competitor pay-per-click campaigns and ad spend.
• Review Brand Search Presence
  Check how a brand appears across Google Search and AI and identify issues with its entity signals.
• Check Keyword Usage
  Review keyword density on a page to identify potential over-optimization.
• Guide AI Models To Pages
  Generate an llms.txt file that directs AI models to selected site pages.
• Package Site Knowledge
  Create a bundle of site knowledge in a format AI agents can read.
• Find Reddit Search Opportunities
  Identify opportunities related to search results where Reddit ranks for a domain.
• Find Schema Markup Errors
  Validate schema markup to identify errors that need attention.
• Generate XML Sitemaps
  Crawl a site and create an XML sitemap for download.