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Brexit Autopsy: How the Ad Battle Played Out (and What the U.S. Should Learn From It)

The leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), Nigel Farage, poses with the party's EU referendum poster in Westminster on June 16. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
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June 30, 2016 05:43 PM

As soon as he heard that Britain had voted to exit the European Union -- widely seen as a populist rejection of the status quo -- Dylan Williams, chief strategic officer at Droga5 London, sent his colleagues in New York an email saying, "Watch this. There are just as many disgruntled people in the U.S."

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