Can We Have Your Attention?
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About This Podcast
Can We Have Your Attention? is a podcast all about the War for Attention. Join Claire Coady and James Wickham as they dive into how your attention is attracted, tracked, traded, and manipulated in the modern attention economy. New episodes every other week, wherever you get your podcasts.
Your Guides to the Attention Economy: Hosted by Claire Coady, a marketing expert who has advised governments and global brands on how to win the battle for attention, and James Wickham, a former BBC journalist who has spent a career inside the 24-hour news machine.
This is a Phonogram production, in association with The Attention Practice.
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Recent Episodes
Tired of Britain, Tired of Life? Populism, Polarisation, and Discontented Britain with Steven Lacey
Is Britain broken, or is everyone just tired? Steven Lacey from cultural research company The Outsiders and the think tank Resilience & Reconstruction joins Claire and James to talk about their…
Attention, Misinformation, and Polarisation: Tracking Election Misinformation with Tom Garnett, CEO of Refute
How is your attention being exploited by people who deliberately make misinformation? Claire Coady and James Wickham are joined by Tom Garnett, the CEO of disinformation monitoring company Refute, to…
The Content Creator Economy: Content Creators, Influencers, and the Economics of a Social Media Business
Do social media content creators make money? If so… how? Claire Coady and James Wickham discuss how content creators build their business: how they get started, build their audience, build businesses…
The War on Business as Usual: The Pentagon, Brands, and the War for Attention
Claire Coady and James Wickham discuss the Department of Defence/Department of War rebrand and its fights with partners and suppliers. In September, Pete Hegseth suggested the U.S. military was being…
When Brands Go Viral
Claire Coady and James Wickham discuss what happens when brands become news. From the Kit Kat heist to Nutella in space to McDonald’s CEO attempting to eat a burger like a human, Claire breaks down…
Is it time for a movement to reclaim attention? Discussing Attensity! with the Friends of Attention
In this episode Claire & James speak to D. Graham Burnett, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and History of Science at Princeton University and co-editor of Attensity! A Manifesto of the…
The Fog of Everything: Iran, War, Uncertainty, Anthropic and OpenAI with Andrew Cheatham
Claire and James, with guest Andrew Cheatham, dive into the U.S. and Israel's attack on Iran, examining the flow of information in modern conflict and how AI has transformed it. The discussion…
Turning our attention onto… this podcast: what we’ve learned about making a podcast (so far)
In this episode, James & Claire - who host the show - talk about... the show. We have not, promise, completely vaulted over our own collective shark. Instead we are looking at the barriers to…
How the NFL decided to ignore sports and start entertaining
In this episode of the Can We Have Your Attention? podcast, hosts Claire Coady and James Wickham get overexcited about the upcoming Super Bowl between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England…
Strongmen, Algorithms, Stans and Kendrick Lamar: How the War for Attention reached Davos
Has President Trump’s foreign policy become the ultimate celebrity beef? Claire and James unpack how Trump uses international relations to flex his strongman image. They explore the collision of…
Can X’s rage baiting strategy survive? X, Grok AI, algorithms, and the war for attention
In this episode of the Can We Have Your Attention? podcast, hosts Claire Coady and James Wickham dive into the escalating crisis around algorithms, free speech, and corporate responsibility in the…
How to make friends and influence yourself: lessons from prison on fighting isolation
In this episode, James & Claire are joined by Dr Katherine Albertson, a senior lecturer in Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University. Following on from our previous episode on radicalisation, we…
A Christmas Special: What's grabbed our attention in 2025
In this special episode of Can We Have Your Attention? for Christmas, James & Claire talk about the things that have taken their attention in 2025 - from books to films, games to music. All…
The Branding of Fear: How ISIS & The Far-Right Market to Men (ft. Dr Stephen Herron)
This episode was recorded at the start of December 2025. A recent surge in ISIS activity has reminded the world that Islamist extremism remains a potent and active threat. For many, the recent…
Episode 5: Why am I so *&^%ing TIRED all the time?
This week Claire & James explore uncertainty with Katherine Templar-Lewis, an expert in neuroscience and the science of uncertainty. Katherine has done brilliant work on how to build resilience…
Episode 4: ADHD and attention
Episode 4 of the Attention Economy podcast, Can We Have Your Attention? hosted by Claire Coady, the founder of The Attention Practice, and journalist & broadcaster James Wickham. This episode is…
Episode 3: Teenagers, Social Media & The Axe Effect
Claire Coady, the Founder of the Attention Practice, and journalist and broadcaster James Wickham discuss how teenagers are coping with the social media age, and the affect it’s having on their…
Episode 2: Everything, everywhere, all at once.
In this episode the founder of the Attention Practice, Claire Coady, and broadcaster & journalist James Wickham consider who is selling your attention, who's buying it - and why. We also cover…
"Don't worry Sweetie, you're just having a breakdown...."
Claire Coady and James Wickham explore the concept of attention, its significance in the modern world, and the challenges posed by the attention economy. They discuss how information overload affects…
Welcome to Can We Have Your Attention: The Attention Economy podcast
In this trailer for the upcoming series, Claire Coady, Founder of The Attention Practice (https://www.theattentionpractice.com/) and broadcaster & journalist James Wickham…
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Can We Have Your Attention? has published 20 episodes since November 2025, covering topics in Business, News.
Can We Have Your Attention? is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 34m.
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