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                <h1><a href="http://thesoundalliance.net/blog/announcing-the-youth-research-prize-winner/">Announcing The Youth Research Prize Winner</a></h1>
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	<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The winner of the $500 prize for the competition element of the Sound Alliance Unofficial Youth Census was S. Wilson!</span></p>

                
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                <h1><a href="http://thesoundalliance.net/blog/junkee-breaks-record-with-14-million-domestic-users-in-november/">Junkee Breaks Record With 1.4 Million Domestic Users in November</a></h1>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Our pop culture title Junkee has recorder its largest about of traffic ever with 1.4 million domestic Australia users visiting the site in November. </span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">This is Junkee&#39;s sixth consecutive month of traffic growth, round off an exceptional year that saw it awarded the title of Media Brand of the Year at the 2014 Mumbrella Awards, as well as Sound Alliance name the Publisher of the Year at the Festival of Branded Entertainment.</span></p>
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	Junkee&rsquo;s domestic users grew by 70% in November, and have grown a massive 602% against Junkee&rsquo;s domestic users in June 2014. The strong... <a href="http://thesoundalliance.net/blog/junkee-breaks-record-with-14-million-domestic-users-in-november/" class="read-more">Read&nbsp;more</a></p>
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                <h1><a href="http://thesoundalliance.net/blog/sound-alliance-breaks-traffic-records/">Sound Alliance Smashes 2 Million Domestic Users in October</a></h1>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">We&rsquo;re very excited that we smashed all previous traffic records last month to crack through 2 million domestic users across the Sound Alliance network in October.</span></h3>
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	A total of 2,059,927 domestic users visited Sound Alliance&rsquo;s network of category leading sites of Junkee, inthemix, FasterLouder, Same Same and Mess+Noise last month, an increase of 15% over our previous record-breaking month in September.</p>
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	Traffic to Sound Alliance&rsquo;s owned and operate sites in the July to September quarter more than doubled compared to the same quarter last year, a growth of 109%.&nbsp;</p>
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	Australia&rsquo;s leading youth publishing and communications company is looking for an exceptional Account Manager to join our team in Sydney.</p>
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	Sound Alliance owns and operates FasterLouder, inthemix, Same Same, Mess+Noise and Mumbrella&rsquo;s 2014 Media Brand of The Year, Junkee, as well as representing titles Pitchfork, NME and The Hype Machine in Australia. Together, these titles have a combined monthly unique audience of more than 1.7 million Australians.</p>
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	Sound Alliance are the pioneers of native advertising in Australia, and use insights from the audience and titles to help... <a href="http://thesoundalliance.net/blog/were-hiring-account-manager/" class="read-more">Read&nbsp;more</a></p>
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	Australia&rsquo;s leading youth publishing and communications company is looking for a full time Staff Writer to join the inthemix editorial team in Sydney.</p>
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	We&rsquo;re searching for an exceptional writer to join the world&rsquo;s leading electronic music media, inthemix. ITM... <a href="http://thesoundalliance.net/blog/were-hiring-inthemix-staff-writer/" class="read-more">Read&nbsp;more</a></p>
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