In the wake of large-scale staff reductions across Warner Bros Discovery that largely tailed off earlier this year, the marketing department at Max has now also experienced layoffs.
The tally of workers let go in the streaming unit is a double-digit number, a person familiar with the situation told Deadline.
Because of the need to integrate the HBO Max and Discovery+ streaming outlets into the combined Max service that launched last May, no reductions had been seen in the marketing group up to this point.
In the immediate aftermath of the $43 billion WarnerMedia-Discovery deal, billions of cost savings were promised, with the total rising from $3 billion initially to beyond $4 billion earlier this year.
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