Fracturing the attention economy

European distribution, leadership in crisis, cool workshops in the autumn and 28 active calls.

Welcome

This week on the Media Finance Monitor:

• Fracturing the attention economy

• It’s hard to get people excited about the future on a sinking ship

• Leverage the real power of Europe (x)

• Cool workshops in the autumn

• 28 active calls (9 new)

Fracturing the attention economy

I'm really into food. I like eating it, cooking it, obsessing over it. Some of my best writing (in Hungarian) explores the intersection of food and politics: from how Francoist repression led to San Sebastián's Michelin boom, to how post-war geopolitics in East Asia turned ramen into a global staple.

I consume enormous amounts of food-related content: SeriousEats, Food52, Eater, Andy Hayler, /r/ramen and a bunch of even more obscure platforms. Over the past decade, a lot of my consumption has moved to YouTube, which has excellent food content. But more recently, especially when thinking…