
No. 148: Entertainment's format walls are falling. The platform that owns attention wins everything.
Culture Pulse: 72. Format wars are over. The aggregation wars have begun. Whoever owns daily attention across all formats wins. Everything else is a distribution moat that's already gone. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-07-22.html
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