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The joy of text: Publishers use old tech to reach new readers

pressgazette.co.uk · Charlotte Tobitt · last updated
Could old-fashioned SMS texting be a more reliable alternative to fickle social media algorithms for publishers? That’s the theory of Subtext, which was founded in 2019 within US publisher Advance Local’s tech incubator Alpha Group.
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