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How a simple game format captured the world's imagination in the first weeks 2022

Jan 12

How time is used as a format trick to give a story focus

Dec 9, 2021

How a YouTube format turned a solo endeavour into a shared experience

Dec 1, 2021

How a property format makes house viewing a new form of escapism

Nov 24, 2021

How the end credits of movies evolved into world-building formats

Nov 10, 2021

How a podcast format delivers more in than ten minutes than others do in an hour

Nov 3, 2021

How a book format became a film, and a game, and a smash Netflix series, and more...

Oct 20, 2021

How a quiz format has remained virtually unchanged for fifty four years

Oct 13, 2021

How a single list of data became one of the most influential formats of the twentieth century

Oct 6, 2021

How a simple quiz became one of the most viral quizzes of the time

Sep 30, 2021

How a simple format became universally loved

Sep 22, 2021

How unstructured stories send us to slumber

Sep 15, 2021

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