GWI Says Health-Conscious Consumers Are Worth Watching, Which Is Hard To Argue With And Impossible To Check

GWI's Health & Wellbeing report promises marketers a look at how people's interest in fitness, food and general health shapes what they buy, though the page itself won't say what year any of this is from; this includes practices like yours, assuming you can find the numbers underneath the promise.

Page updated: 13 Aug 2026

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Practices tempted to borrow GWI's confidence about health-conscious consumers will find plenty of confidence and very little evidence sitting under it.

Original Research	A GWI landing page describing a report on how brands can make use of people's interest in health, fitness and wellbeing.
Source	https://www.gwi.com/reports/health-and-wellbeing
Overview	The page pitches a broad consumer-trends report on health attitudes, exercise habits and buying preferences, published by GlobalWebIndex, a commercial market-research firm.
Year	Not stated anywhere on the source page.
Publisher	Brand, GlobalWebIndex (GWI)
Relevance to Wellbeing	Directionally relevant to any practice selling wellbeing services, but the page offers a sales pitch rather than a citable figure.
Our Verdict	Too early to tell worth a read for general context, not worth repeating to a client as a fact.
Our Summary	It correctly assumes wellbeing brands want to know what health-conscious customers do with their money. There's no named survey, no sample size and no publication year, so nothing here can actually be checked. It's a promotional page for a paid report, not a public dataset. The general premise, that health-consciousness shapes buying decisions, lines up with plenty of properly sourced research elsewhere.
Our Geo View	Applies broadly to all countries

Abstract of wellbeing niches and revenue flow

Recognise how this might impact your practice

Why this might matter to you

Coaching: this matters because coaches quoting big unsourced health-trend numbers can get caught out by one client with a search engine.
Therapy: this matters because people researching therapy tend to check the claims before they check the qualifications.
Training: this matters because trainers already compete on numbers, and a number nobody can trace won't help them win.
Alternative Healing: this matters because healing practices get accused of vague evidence often enough without volunteering an unverifiable one.
Clinical: this matters because clinical practices are held to a higher standard than a marketing landing page can meet.
Retreat/Centre: this matters because retreat marketing leans hard on lifestyle trends, and this one can't be traced past its own sales page.

Where this came from

GWI's own summary says the report helps marketers make use of people's interest in healthy living, exercise and looking after themselves.

GlobalWebIndex (GWI), publish date not given; the full report sits behind a download or registration wall, so this is a description of the report rather than the report itself.

Credibility flags: methodology not disclosed. Sample size not disclosed. Publisher type: commercial market-research brand promoting its own paid product.

How we scored this

A relevance score out of 100, built from three things: how well it fits the six practice types, how recent it is, and how solid the methodology behind it is.

23%

Practice fit, 50How new, 10How solid, 0

It scores decently on practice fit since wellbeing sits right in its subject matter, loses ground on recency because no date is given anywhere, and drops to nothing on how solid the method is, since nobody, including GWI, has put a checkable figure behind the claim.

It's worth considering changes to your marketing practices

What this means for your marketing

Don't quote GWI's health-consciousness figures to clients until you've actually seen the report yourself.
Say the general trend out loud if it's useful, but leave out any specific number nobody can verify.
Brief your team that "GWI says" is not the same thing as "GWI shows".
Put your own client outcomes and testimonials front and centre instead of a borrowed stat.
File this one under background reading, not under marketing hooks.

Who this is most useful for

Practice type	Relevance	Recommended action
Coaching	Medium	Use as background reading, not as a quotable stat.
Therapy	Low	Skip; therapy marketing needs firmer ground than this.
Training	Medium	Fine for general context on fitness trends, not for claims.
Alternative Healing	Low	Avoid citing directly; too easy for a client to challenge.
Clinical	Low	Not suitable for clinical marketing or compliance-checked copy.
Retreat/Centre	Medium	Useful for general tone-setting, not for numbers on the website.

Best before

Best before: worth revisiting if GWI ever publishes a dated, sourced version of this report; until then, treat it as background reading with no shelf life to speak of.

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