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If you go viral once on Twitter, you’re lucky. Twice? You’re good. Over the last month, The Hustle’s Alex Garcia has written tweet threads that have gone viral again, and again, and again.

The average supermarket carries ~47k products, many of which compete against each other for your attention. To survive, great CPG brands must master the art of standing out.

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Valentine’s Day got us thinking about how entire companies are built around certain holidays. But outside of these times, how do holiday-reliant businesses diversify their revenue? 

This is the first in a series of articles in which we investigate trends in different parts of the world, show how companies are responding to those trends, and provide lessons you can apply to your business.  

Bob Pittman — the creator of MTV, former CEO of Six Flags, Time Warner, AOL, and Century 21 Real Estate and now current CEO of iHeartMedia — has had a hell of a career. 

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