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title: 2017 — The Year Digital Finally Started Growing Up
description: 2017 — The Year Digital Finally Started Growing Up
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# [2017 — The Year Digital Finally Started Growing Up](https://www.betterads.org/betterads/news/2017-the-year-digital-finally-started-growing-up)

 Written by [Sample HubSpot User](https://www.betterads.org/betterads/news/author/sample-hubspot-user) | Dec 22, 2017 12:03:00 PM

I am not usually one for nostalgia at the end of a year, or for making predictions. However, when a year has such a clear character, it’s worth breaking a rule with the final London Blog of 2017. The year we’ve just lived through has been a very interesting one, to say the very least. Donald…

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