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After six years as Fandom’s CEO, Perkins Miller is parting ways with the popular wiki hosting platform.
While there has yet to be an official announcement, The Verge has learned that Miller is no longer working for Fandom as of last week. In a statement sent to The Verge on Fandom’s behalf, Katie Schroeder confirmed Miller’s departure and noted that, while the company is currently being overseen by interim leadership, “we have not announced a new CEO as of yet.”
After leaving StubHub to join Fandom in 2019, Miller oversaw the company’s $50 million acquisition of a number of entertainment content platforms from Red Ventures including TV Guide, Metacritic, GameSpot, and Giant Bomb. At the time, Miller said that the deal was meant to “expand our business capabilities and provide immersive content for our partners, advertisers and fans.” The deal also led to multiple rounds of layoffs for the editorial staff at some of Fandom’s newly-acquired properties. During an all-hands meeting last October, Miller pointed to corporate restructuring and missed revenue targets as some of the causes of the layoffs.
While Fandom’s IP-specific wikis are popular, they have become widely known for being difficult to navigate due to a preponderance of aggressive ads that often make pages unstable to the point of being nearly unusable. When asked about Fandom’s user experience during a Decoder episode back in 2023, Miller said that he thought “we’re doing our best to make it as elegant as we can, and yet, we need to drive the economics.”
Though Fandom hasn’t named who might replace Miller, the PlayOn! Sports Network — which aggregates videos of high school organized sports — announced today that he has signed on as its new CEO.
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