Netflix is laying off staff from its Tudum fan site

Netflix is shedding some Tudum editorial workers simply months after launching the web site that publishes information, interviews, and different fan content material. Tudum falls below the corporate’s advertising and marketing division and contains folks engaged on leisure, information, life-style, and tradition content material.

Many of the 10-person Tudum tradition and tendencies group was let go, in response to one individual with data of the state of affairs. They mentioned the workers was given no prior warning of the layoffs, and different employees discovered their colleagues had been laid off by way of Twitter. Most of the writers had been skilled journalists that Netflix lured from different shops, the individual says. The individual additionally claims information of layoffs on different groups is forthcoming. If in case you have data of extra layoffs, electronic mail us at [email protected].

Netflix didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. The corporate informed Protocol there have been no plans to shutter Tudum and referred to as it “an necessary precedence for the corporate.”

The layoffs observe information final week that the streaming large misplaced subscribers for the primary time in over a decade.