Secrets from the teals’ digital war room:we created a direct line to voters and now TV political ads are dead
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Secrets from the teals’ digital war room:we created a direct line to voters and now TV political ads are dead

The director of the communications agency responsible for the major teal independent campaigns reveals the revolutionary nature of the social media advertising strategy.

  • byEd Coper

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