Fandom’s CEO has left the company

After six years arsenic Fandom’s CEO, Perkins Miller is parting ways with the fashionable wiki hosting platform.

While determination has yet to beryllium an authoritative announcement, The Verge has learned that Miller is nary longer moving for Fandom arsenic of past week. In a connection sent to The Verge on Fandom’s behalf, Katie Schroeder confirmed Miller’s departure and noted that, portion the institution is presently being overseen by interim leadership, “we person not announced a caller CEO arsenic of yet.”

After leaving StubHub to join Fandom successful 2019, Miller oversaw the company’s $50 cardinal acquisition of a fig of amusement contented platforms from Red Ventures including TV Guide, Metacritic, GameSpot, and Giant Bomb. At the time, Miller said that the woody was meant to “expand our concern capabilities and supply immersive contented for our partners, advertisers and fans.” The woody also led to aggregate rounds of layoffs for the editorial unit astatine immoderate of Fandom’s newly-acquired properties. During an all-hands gathering past October, Miller pointed to firm restructuring and missed gross targets arsenic immoderate of the causes of the layoffs.

While Fandom’s IP-specific wikis are popular, they person go wide known for being hard to navigate owed to a preponderance of assertive ads that often marque pages unstable to the constituent of being astir unusable. When asked astir Fandom’s idiosyncratic acquisition during a Decoder episode backmost successful 2023, Miller said that helium thought “we’re doing our champion to marque it arsenic elegant arsenic we can, and yet, we request to thrust the economics.”

Though Fandom hasn’t named who mightiness regenerate Miller, the PlayOn! Sports Network — which aggregates videos of precocious schoolhouse organized sports — announced today that helium has signed connected arsenic its caller CEO.