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Sep 2023
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🎙️🎙️“TBOY signs with Wondery” — Return...

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Since the writers’ strike began, you’ve been watching reruns (Suits, Seinfeld, and Wheel of Fortune) — the Hollywood Strike has been bad for TV, but great for everything else. 

How did Snapchat hit 5M paying subscribers? It’s because Snapchat is like a telephone — and every other social media is like a phonebook.

And Deion Sanders just caused one sunglass startup to experience a $5M sales surge — Because the best PR is personal.


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