An Advertising Pivot Is Beginning

 
 

In just the last week, there were two high-level and noteworthy departures at the giants:

  • Meta’s advertising head (who served as COO)

  • Amazon’s consumer retail chief

Earlier in the year, two noteworthy departures were found among smaller companies striving to one day become giants: 

  • Spotify’s chief architect of its podcasting strategy

  • Roku’s head of platform business

At first, the four departures may seem unrelated to each other.

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