The Pattern

By Mike Litman

Before it's obvious. Daily culture intelligence from 150+ sources. Fashion, design, technology, brands, music, art, and lifestyle. The patterns others miss, every morning at 8:30am UK time.... more

Download on the App Store

Download on the App Store

Get it on Google Play

FAQs about The Pattern:

How many episodes does The Pattern have?

The podcast currently has 181 episodes available.

The Pattern episodes:

June 25, 2026 No. 121: Print is back. But this time it is selling a lifestyle, not content.
Culture Pulse: 74
Print titles are launching product lines. Heritage brands are quoting themselves. Editorial voice was always the product. Brands just noticed. | The Pattern, June 25
Read the full edition
Read the transcript
...more
5min
June 24, 2026 No. 120: Hollywood's AI anxiety is a distribution problem, not a creative one.
Culture Pulse: 74
Hollywood passed on the OpenAI film to protect vendor relationships, not artistic ones. That's the signal. The Pattern, 24 June 2026. #culture #strategy
Read the full edition
Read the transcript
...more
5min
June 23, 2026 No. 119: The living room is the next platform war battlefield.
Culture Pulse: 74
Google bought A24. Instagram wants your TV. Eli Lilly built an app store. Three sectors, one move: platforms are buying cultural authority because scale alone no longer closes the deal. @thepattern
Read the full edition
Read the transcript
...more
5min
June 22, 2026 No. 118: Simplicity is the new luxury flex. Prada just proved it.
Culture Pulse: 72
Prada calls complexity useless. Hill House hits $110M on one dress. Reduction is the strategy now. Today's Pattern: the maximalist era is filing for bankruptcy.
Read the full edition
Read the transcript
...more
6min
June 21, 2026 No. 117: Authenticity has an API now. Students just built it.
Culture Pulse: 68
Authenticity has an API now. Humanizer apps, cigarette-box wellness drops, and Christie's execs running luxury. The real is being engineered. @ThePattern
Read the full edition
Read the transcript
...more
5min
June 20, 2026 No. 116: Ritual is the new product. Packaging just became the proof.
Culture Pulse: 72
Ritual is the new product. Rocky's Matcha, NTS Radio, New Balance: three brands using objects to do the cultural work advertising used to do. The Pattern, 20 June.
Read the full edition
Read the transcript
...more
5min
June 19, 2026 No. 115: Sport just became New York's most valuable cultural real estate.
Culture Pulse: 74
The Knicks window is open for days, not weeks. Burberry exported the pub as a brand format. Industrial brands are buying design capital. The Pattern, 19 June.
Read the full edition
Read the transcript
...more
5min
June 18, 2026 No. 114: Luxury picks its infrastructure bets. Supply chain is the new brand story.
Culture Pulse: 71
Primark hires Calvin Klein's design director. LVMH prizes supply chain transparency. Prestige talent is migrating down, and the quality gap is closing fast. @ThePattern
Read the full edition
Read the transcript
...more
5min
June 17, 2026 No. 113: Post-smartphone computing is already being worn. The race started quietly.
Culture Pulse: 72
Post-smartphone computing is already being worn. Qualcomm has 40+ wearable AI devices in development. The body is the new pocket. @ThePattern
Read the full edition
Read the transcript
...more
5min
June 16, 2026 No. 112: Fox buys the remote control. Distribution just became the only content strategy.
Culture Pulse: 74
Fox bought Roku for $22bn. That's not a streaming deal — it's a real estate play. Whoever owns the interface owns the attention economy. @ThePatternn
Read the full edition
Read the transcript
...more
5min

FAQs about The Pattern:

How many episodes does The Pattern have?

The podcast currently has 181 episodes available.