EmergingNew topic, limited history

Ape Escape

Gaming · first detected 28 Sept 2026 · scored 7 Oct 2026

Attention is rising, and the topic is moderately covered: worth watching.

Trend

26/100Rising

Attention is growing enough to make the radar.

Opportunity

13/100Some

A little room, but the topic is either slow or already busy.

Confidence

68%Medium

Enough data to trust the direction, not every detail.

Trend, 30 days

Trend (0–100):: How fast attention is growing right now, compared with the topic's usual level. 20+ makes the radar.
Opportunity (0–100):: The trend, discounted when a topic is already crowded or past its peak: the room left to stand out. How scores work

Why this score

+Wikipedia views up 1.9× against its 4-week median
−Rising in only one source so far
+Up 64% on the previous 7 days (average across sources)
+First detected 9 days ago
·Only 10 days of history so far

How this score was calculated

Component	Value	Weight	Points
Attention growth	28%	0.30	+8.5
Coverage growth	0%	0.25	+0.0
Cross-source breadth	33%	0.20	+6.7
Acceleration	71%	0.15	+10.7
Freshness	80%	0.10	+8.0
Saturation (subtracted)	31%	0.25	−7.6
Trend score (0–100)			26.2

Opportunity = trend 26.2 × (1 − saturation 31%) × stage weight 1 × niche relevance 0.7 = 12.7

Saturation parts: volume 50%, time elevated 18%, mainstream 0%. Spike ratio = mean of the last 3 days ÷ median of days 4–31. A source counts as spiking at ≥ 1.5× and robust z ≥ 2.

Source	Spike	Robust z	Week over week	Spiking
rss	1.00×	0.0	0%	no
gdelt	1.00×	0.0	0%	no
wikipedia	1.93×	4.7	339%	yes

Full method: methodology. Rising means rising now; it is not a prediction that a topic will go viral.

Signals by source

Wikipedia views

858/day

2026-09-28 → 2026-10-07 · fetched 8 Oct, 14:46 UTC

News coverage

0/day

2026-10-07 → 2026-10-07 · fetched 8 Oct, 14:18 UTC

Niche headlines

1/day

2026-10-06 → 2026-10-07 · fetched 8 Oct, 14:19 UTC

Attention data: Wikipedia pageviews via the Wikimedia Analytics API · News data: GDELT Project · Headlines: niche publications via their public feeds (headline, date and link only) · Data as of 8 Oct, 14:46 UTC

Licences and terms

Attention data: Wikipedia pageviews via the Wikimedia Analytics API: CC0 (pageview data)
News data: GDELT Project: Free for commercial use with citation
Headlines: niche publications via their public feeds (headline, date and link only): Headline and link only

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