📚What I Read This Week…
🎙️What I Listened to This Week… (Podcasts)
🤯 Major Media & Tech Layoff Announcements (the complete list) - Source: Variety.com
Date | Company | Number of Layoffs |
Oct ’24 | Meta (incl. WhatsApp and Instagram) | 100+ |
Sep ’24 | Disney (Corporate) | About 300 |
Sep ’24 | Paramount Global (Ad division) | Undisclosed |
Sep ’24 | Microsoft Gaming | About 650 (3%) |
Aug ’24 | Time Magazine | 22 |
Aug ’24 | A+E Networks | Undisclosed |
Aug ’24 | Dr. Phil’s Merit Street Media | About 40 (30%) |
Aug ’24 | Paramount Global | About 2,000 (15%) |
Aug ’24 | Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News (shuttering) | Undisclosed |
Jul ’24 | Disney (TV division) | 140 (about 2%) |
Jul ’24 | Bungie (Sony-owned game studio) | 220 (about 17%) |
Jul ’24 | BBC | 500 |
Jul ’24 | Fox Entertainment | About 30 |
Jul ’24 | Warner Bros. Discovery | Nearly 1,000 |
Jul ’24 | Entertainment Tonight | 17 |
Jul ’24 | Chicken Soup for the Soul (shuttering) | About 1,000 (all) |
Jul ’24 | CNN | 2.8% (about 100) |
May ’24 | Pixar | About 175 (14%) |
Apr ’24 | Take-Two Interactive | About 600 (5%) |
Apr ’24 | Participant (shuttering) | About 100 |
Apr ’24 | Marvel | 15 |
Mar ’24 | Deadspin (all, site sold) | 11 |
Mar ’24 | Rooster Teeth (closing) | 150 |
Feb ’24 | Electronic Arts (EA) | 670 (5%) |
Feb ’24 | PlayStation | 900 (8%) |
Feb ’24 | Vice Media Group | Several hundred |
Feb ’24 | Buzzfeed | 16% |
Feb ’24 | NowThis | 26 (50%) |
Feb ’24 | Paramount Global | 800 (3%) |
Feb ’24 | SiriusXM | 160 (3%) |
Feb ’24 | Snapchat | 10% |
Jan ’24 | TechCrunch | 8 + subscription product |
Jan ’24 | U.K.’s Channel 4 | 200 |
Jan ’24 | Business Insider | 8% |
Jan ’24 | Microsoft Gaming | 1,900 |
Jan ’24 | Riot Games | 530 |
Jan ’24 | Sports Illustrated | Possibly all |
Jan ’24 | YouTube | 100 |
Jan ’24 | Pitchfork (Conde Nast) | Undisclosed |
Jan ’24 | Universal Music Group | Hundreds |
Jan ’24 | Discord | 17% |
Jan ’24 | NBC News | 50-100 |
Jan ’24 | Audible | 5% |
Jan ’24 | Hundreds | |
Jan ’24 | Amazon | Hundreds |
Jan ’24 | Duolingo | 10% |
Jan ’24 | VideoAmp | 20% |
Dec ’23 | Tidal | 10% |
Dec ’23 | Spotify | 17% |
Dec ’23 | Lionsgate (eOne) | 10% |
Nov ’23 | Dish Network | 500+ |
Nov ’23 | NBCU | <50 |
Nov ’23 | G/O Media | 23 |
Nov ’23 | Starz | 10+% |
Nov ’23 | Conde Nast | 5% |
Oct ’23 | BMG | 40 |
Oct ’23 | Anonymous Content | 8% |
Oct ’23 | DreamWorks Animation | 70 |
Oct ’23 | Blumhouse Television | N/A |
Sep ’23 | Epic Games | 870 |
Sep ’23 | N/A | |
Sep ’23 | Roku | 10% |
Aug ’23 | Barstool Sports | 25% |
Aug ’23 | Fifth Season | 30 |
Aug ’23 | HBO & Max | N/A |
Aug ’23 | CAA | 60 |
Jun ’23 | Niantic Labs | 25% |
Jun ’23 | Variety | 4 |
Jun ’23 | National Geographic | All writing staff |
Jun ’23 | The Hollywood Reporter | N/A |
Jun ’23 | Bloomberg | 10 |
Jun ’23 | Cheddar News | 12 |
Jun ’23 | The Athletic | 4% |
Jun ’23 | Los Angeles Times | 74 |
Jun ’23 | 5% | |
Jun ’23 | Spotify | 200 |
May ’23 | Paramount | 25% |
May ’23 | 716 | |
Apr ’23 | Vice Media | 100 |
Apr ’23 | Clubhouse | 50% |
Apr ’23 | BuzzFeed | 15% |
Apr ’23 | Insider | 10% |
Apr ’23 | Lionsgate | 3% |
Mar ’23 | Roku | 200 |
Mar ’23 | Electronic Arts | 800 |
Mar ’23 | Warner Music Group | 270 |
Mar ’23 | NPR | 10% |
Mar ’23 | The CW | N/A |
Mar ’23 | Amazon | 9,000 |
Mar ’23 | Meta | 10,000 |
Mar ’23 | Take-Two Interactive | N/A |
Mar ’23 | SiriusXM | 475 |
Mar ’23 | CNET | 50% |
Feb ’23 | Showtime | 120 |
Feb ’23 | News Corp | 1,250 |
Feb ’23 | Yahoo | 20% |
Feb ’23 | Disney | 7,000 |
Jan ’23 | PayPal | 2,000 |
Jan ’23 | Dotdash Meredith | 7% |
Jan ’23 | Washington Post | 20 |
Jan ’23 | N/A | |
Jan ’23 | Adweek | 14 |
Jan ’23 | Spotify | 600 |
Jan ’23 | Vox Media | 130 |
Jan ’23 | Alphabet | 12,000 |
Jan ’23 | Microsoft | 10,000 |
Jan ’23 | NBC News & MSNBC | 75 |
Jan ’23 | Amazon | 18,000 |
Jan ’23 | Salesforce | 7,000 |
Jan ’23 | DirecTV | 10% |
Jan ’23 | Vimeo | 11% |
Dec ’22 | Buzzfeed | 12% |
Dec ’22 | Gannett | 6% |
Nov ’22 | The Washington Post | 10 |
Nov ’22 | Paramount Global Ad Sales | fewer than 100 |
Nov ’22 | Paramount TV Studios, CBS | 30 |
Nov ’22 | CNN | N/A |
Nov ’22 | AMC Networks | 20% |
Nov ’22 | Roku | 200 |
Nov ’22 | 3,700 | |
Nov ’22 | Meta | 11,000 |
Nov ’22 | Amazon | 10,000 |
Nov ’22 | Vice Media | 2% |
Nov ’22 | Comcast Cable | N/A |
Oct ’22 | Comcast's G4 TV | 45 |
Oct ’22 | Warner Bros. Discovery | 125 |
Oct ’22 | Microsoft | N/A |
Sep ’22 | NBCUniversal's E! | 37 |
Aug ’22 | Gannett | 400 |
Aug ’22 | HBO & HBO Max | 70 |
Aug ’22 | Snap | 20% |
Jul ’22 | Vox Media | 39 |
Jun ’22 | Netflix | 300 |
Jun ’22 | Microsoft | less than 1% |
May ’22 | Netflix | 150 |
Mar ’22 | Buzzfeed | 1.70% |
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