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Mediaite / Aidan McLaughlin / Apr 24, 2018
“‘Part of the way I built the team is looking for people who were hungry, but who also had a presence on air and a strong social media following,’ Avlon explained. ‘That’s what I jokingly refer to as our advertising budget.’ He pointed to some of the hires the Beast has made this past year…. These new hires have more than 600,000 Twitter followers between them.” SW
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