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The popular PAT has succumbed to vanity and is currently in a Swiss clinic undergoing some extensive cosmetic surgery. Any subscriber wanting to access the detail included in the Platform Analysis Tool which provides data, facts and figures on some 12 leading IFA platforms can visit PAT's page and download the data in Excel format. The new Botoxed PAT will be back in the New Year.

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