{"id":176206,"date":"2025-09-15T16:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=176206"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:15:25","slug":"ign-hit-by-layoffs-as-parent-company-ziff-davis-cuts-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=176206","title":{"rendered":"IGN hit by layoffs as parent company Ziff Davis cuts costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ziff Davis-owned IGN Entertainment has laid off staff, including eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. Those cuts represent 12 percent of the bargaining unit. The layoffs are the latest shift in the turbulent gaming media landscape. Earlier this year, Verge parent company Vox Media sold Polygon to GameRant owner Valnet&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/718692\/ign-entertainment-layoffs-creators-guild-ziff-davis\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ziff Davis-owned IGN Entertainment has laid off staff, including eight members of the IGN Creators<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176206-ign-hit-by-layoffs-as-parent-company-ziff-davis-cuts-costs.jpg",1200,624,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176206-ign-hit-by-layoffs-as-parent-company-ziff-davis-cuts-costs-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176206-ign-hit-by-layoffs-as-parent-company-ziff-davis-cuts-costs-300x156.jpg",300,156,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176206-ign-hit-by-layoffs-as-parent-company-ziff-davis-cuts-costs-768x399.jpg",640,333,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176206-ign-hit-by-layoffs-as-parent-company-ziff-davis-cuts-costs-1024x532.jpg",640,333,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176206-ign-hit-by-layoffs-as-parent-company-ziff-davis-cuts-costs.jpg",1200,624,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176206-ign-hit-by-layoffs-as-parent-company-ziff-davis-cuts-costs.jpg",1200,624,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176206-ign-hit-by-layoffs-as-parent-company-ziff-davis-cuts-costs-1024x532.jpg",1024,532,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176206-ign-hit-by-layoffs-as-parent-company-ziff-davis-cuts-costs-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/176206-ign-hit-by-layoffs-as-parent-company-ziff-davis-cuts-costs-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=42\" rel=\"category\">Entertainment<\/a>","tag_info":"Entertainment","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/176207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}