Trends and newsjacking: new launches

Finchling: Ideas section, named experts per project and Google Chat alerts

2026-11-06T00:00:00Z

Finchling added an Ideas section that suggests campaign ideas and researches saved ones, named experts per project whose specialties shape the opportunities it finds, and alerts in Google Chat.

Finchling (finchling.com). Available Nov. 5, 2026.

Source: Finchling blog (Nov 5, 2026).

trendJack: trendJack Claude plugin

2026-10-21T00:00:00Z

Claude plugin bundling the trendJack MCP connection with skills for briefings, triage, content plans and drafts.

trendJack (trendjack.io). Available Oct. 1, 2026.

Features: MCP servers and connectors, Plugin.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub.

trendJack: trendJack launches, opens to founding users

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

trendJack announces it is onboarding founding users for its agentic signal-to-publish platform.

trendJack (trendjack.io). Available Sept. 25, 2026.

Source: trendJack.

trendJack: Jack (trend and competitor monitoring agent)

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

AI agent scans news, social, industry publications and competitors and sends trend alerts scored against brand pillars.

trendJack (trendjack.io). Available Sept. 25, 2026. In beta.

Features: Trend detection, Media monitoring.

Source: trendJack.

trendJack: On-brand AI content generation

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Drafts publish-ready posts and comms in each brand's tone and routes them through an approval workflow.

trendJack (trendjack.io). Available Sept. 25, 2026. In beta.

Features: Press release and content writing.

Source: trendJack.

trendJack: MCP-ready Jack

2026-10-21T00:00:00Z

Jack works inside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Copilot via MCP.

trendJack (trendjack.io). Available Sept. 25, 2026. In beta.

Features: MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.

Source: trendJack.

Exploding Topics: Parent Semrush acquired by Adobe

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Adobe completed its acquisition of Semrush, Exploding Topics' parent company.

Exploding Topics (explodingtopics.com). Announced April 28, 2026.

Source: Adobe newsroom.

Exploding Topics: TikTok Insights add-on

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Exploding Topics added TikTok Insights, a tool that finds trending TikTok Shop products and hashtags early.

Exploding Topics (explodingtopics.com). Available 2025.

Features: Trend detection.

Source: Exploding Topics blog ('Looking Ahead to a Year of Smarter Trend-Spotting', updated 9 Feb 2026).

Exploding Topics: Enhanced agentic capabilities

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Backend upgrade using agentic capabilities to detect upcoming trends earlier and with improved sensitivity.

Exploding Topics (explodingtopics.com). Announced 2025.

Features: Trend detection.

Source: Exploding Topics blog.

Exploding Topics: Acquired by Semrush

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Semrush acquires Exploding Topics; founder Brian Dean announces the deal, team and logins staying the same.

Exploding Topics (explodingtopics.com). Announced Aug. 20, 2024.

Source: Exploding Topics (About page).

Glimpse: Google Trends Supercharged 2

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Glimpse relaunched its Google Trends extension as version 2.

Glimpse (meetglimpse.com). Available April 26, 2023.

Features: Trend detection.

Sources: Hunted.Space (Product Hunt launch page), Product Hunt launch page.

Glimpse: Google Trends Supercharged (Chrome extension)

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Glimpse released a browser extension that adds absolute search volume, trend discovery and alerts on top of Google Trends.

Glimpse (meetglimpse.com). Available Feb. 23, 2022.

Features: Trend detection.

Sources: Hunted.Space (Product Hunt launch page), Product Hunt product page (launch history).

Glimpse: COVID-19 Trends

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Glimpse published a tracker of growth and decline in topics affected by COVID-19.

Glimpse (meetglimpse.com). Available March 25, 2020.

Features: Trend detection.

Sources: Hunted.Space (Product Hunt launch page), Product Hunt product page (launch history).

Exploding Topics: Exploding Topics (trend discovery database)

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Exploding Topics launched as a free site that scans the web for rapidly growing topics, after founder Brian Dean bought the Trennd.co trend platform.

Exploding Topics (explodingtopics.com). Available December 2019.

Features: Trend detection.

Source: HoneyHat (article on Exploding Topics' growth).

Glimpse: Glimpse 2.0 with instant alerts

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Glimpse added instant trend alerts to the newsletter.

Glimpse (meetglimpse.com). Available May 29, 2019.

Features: Trend detection.

Sources: Hunted.Space (Product Hunt launch page), Product Hunt product page (launch history).

Glimpse: GLIMPSE

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Glimpse launches on Product Hunt as a tool to discover trends before they get big.

Glimpse (meetglimpse.com). Available March 21, 2019.

Source: Product Hunt product page (launch history).

Exploding Topics: Exploding Topics founded

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Josh Howarth begins Exploding Topics product development "from the first line of code."

Exploding Topics (explodingtopics.com). Announced 2019.

Source: Exploding Topics author bio.

Glimpse: Glimpse: monthly newsletter of fast-growing trends

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Glimpse launched a monthly newsletter that surfaces rapidly growing trends found by tracking words and phrases across search, media, shopping and social sites.

Glimpse (meetglimpse.com). Available Dec. 5, 2018.

Features: Trend detection.

Source: Hunted.Space (Product Hunt launch page).

Glimpse: Glimpse launch

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Glimpse founded by Noah Fram-Schwartz and Max Fram-Schwartz as a trend-discovery platform built on Google Trends data.

Glimpse (meetglimpse.com). Available 2018.

Source: Product Hunt.