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Hosted by Mike Litman · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 172 episodes
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Before it's obvious. A daily briefing scanning 150+ sources across fashion, design, tech, brands, and music. Finding the patterns others miss, every morning at 8:30am UK time.
Mike Litman hosts The Pattern, a news show with 172 episodes published.
Culture Pulse: 72. IKEA just entered the collectible design market. When the world's biggest furniture brand claims that word, it stops belonging to luxury. The floor moved. #ThePattern Read the full edition: https://the
Culture Pulse: 68. Google in a Chicago landmark. Kith and BMW with two bespoke cars nobody can buy. Bugaboo's first collab in a decade. The pattern: physical presence is the new premium. @ThePattern Read the full edition
Culture Pulse: 74. Supreme just confirmed it: objects beat content. The drop era is back and it never really left. Today's Pattern. #ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-08-18.html
Culture Pulse: 74. AI personas are joining the creative workforce. Generic talent just got cheaper. Authentic ownership just got more expensive. @ThePattern // Monday August 17 Read the full edition: https://thepattern.m
Culture Pulse: 71. Objects are the new media channel. Slawn's Rolex drops, Patek's Milan exhibition, Chinese EVs as entertainment venues — distribution just changed hands. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepa
Culture Pulse: 72. Instagram's first rebrand in a decade, KFC opening a wine bar, Wonderskin hitting $200M. Identity is the new product category. Brands are catching up. | The Pattern Read the full edition: https://thepa
Culture Pulse: 72. Music is becoming the architecture of resale. Depop's Spotify move is not a campaign. It's a structural bet on who owns taste formation. #ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/edit
Culture Pulse: 72. Objects are the new media spend. LEGO x Nike, V&A Dundee, Saucony's StockX rise: product form is doing the cultural work that campaigns used to buy. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepatter
Culture Pulse: 74. SKIMS turned skin tone into architecture. White Rabbit went viral for a 60-year-old wrapper. Physicality is making its case. Today's Pattern: the body is back as the primary brand surface. Read the ful
Culture Pulse: 72. Anthropic is pricing cultural backlash into its IPO pitch. Doubt is no longer a comms problem. It's a market condition. @ThePattern #AI #Strategy Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/edition
Culture Pulse: 58. Postcodes beat platforms. King's Cross, Rotterdam's post office, froyo pop-ups: physical location is reasserting itself as the carrier of meaning brands spent 5 years trying to digitise. @ThePattern Re
Culture Pulse: 74. AI built a religion by accident. YouTube punished its best creators. Amazon's net-zero pledge just met its gas plant. The Pattern, Sun 9 Aug: scale has consequences nobody budgeted for. Read the full e
Culture Pulse: 72. Canva added AI, costs spiked, users left for ChatGPT. The platform that wraps a commodity capability is one update away from irrelevance. Today's Pattern. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.medi
Culture Pulse: 72. VC is hiring audiences. The NYT is chasing video. Rocky cancelled a deal over a leaked DM. Trust is the asset now. Distribution follows it. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/e
Culture Pulse: 68. The passive audience is gone. Spotify priced the remix, Kith co-engineered the shoe, and a doctoral student beat Nolan's entire press tour. Participation is the product now. #ThePattern Read the full e
Culture Pulse: 71. Institutions are the new brand asset. Mackage, Bode, Kiaf SEOUL, The Met, the V&A — credibility is being built in archives and galleries now, not in campaigns. #ThePattern Read the full edition: https:
Culture Pulse: 62. AI runs the back end. The store is the last brand argument. Today's Pattern: physical presence is now the strategic differentiator automation cannot touch. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.med
Culture Pulse: 68. Pop stars stopped making albums. They started building eras. The bounded release is losing cultural authority across music, fashion, and collecting simultaneously. @ThePattern Read the full edition: ht
Culture Pulse: 72. Resale opened another permanent store. eBay bought Depop. The secondary market is now your nearest competitor on the high street. @ThePattern Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/20
Culture Pulse: 72. Luxury's pricing power is gone. The brands winning now are replacing margin with conviction — origin, craft, and cultural authority. Friday's Pattern: before it's obvious. Read the full edition: https:
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