The latest round up of people moves include Catena Media, Better Collective, Google, and Omnicom.
Catena Media has administered another round of layoffs with regional sites teams across marketing and tech most affected.
The layoffs come as part of a continued effort to streamline operations, with sources claiming the firm’s Q1 2026 reporting showed personnel expenses fell by 18%. Last year, the digital media group’s Annual Report showed it had let go of approximately 25% of its workforce in Q2.
This comes after a period of instability for Catena Media in recent years, which has seen the company’s revenue fall due to the updates from Google, which saw its SEO business take a hit and as has its over-reliance on the US market.
Annual savings from the layoffs are expected to sit at roughly €4.5m to €5.0m (roughly £4.2m), Next.io revealed.
Catena Media is expected to publish its Q2 2026 earnings report next week.
Other notable people moves
Better Collective: Round of redundancies confirmed
Better Collective is letting go of “a ton of people”, a source told IGBAffiliate.
LatinAmerican-facing sports sites are likely to be the hardest hit and come as new regulations in Brazil affecting affiliate activity take effect.
The latest restructuring was announced on 29 July and the exact number of staff affected has not been confirmed.
Allwyn: UK chief operating officer departs
Chris Lyman, chief operating officer of Allwyn, has left the company.
He wrote on LinkedIn: “I’m now looking forward to a well-earned break before beginning the next chapter: supporting organisations in the lottery sector through consultancy and advisory work. If you’d like to connect to discuss the future of lotteries, innovation, or transformation, please get in touch.”
Google: Four engineers leave for AI start-up
Google’s chief scientist, Jeff Dean, alongside engineers Orial Vinyals, Quoc Le, and Sanjay Ghemawat, have all left the tech giant to start an AI company, Discovery Loop.
The company will look to build an AI which can improve itself with little to no human input. They are the latest high-profile tech workers to join the world of startups as AI shakes up the industry.
Omnicom Media: Chief investment officer leaves
Richard Oliver, Omnicom’s chief investment officer, has left the holding company. Oliver previously held the chief investment officer position at IPG before it was merged with Omnicom.
Following the merger, Adam Turner, former chief investment officer at Omnicom Media Group, took the role of chief commercial trading officer after the networks merged.
Just Eat: Marketing director resigns
Just Eat’s marketing director for the UK and Ireland, Andrew Cocker, has departed the company after two years.
He will be replaced by interim marketing director Tina Koehler.
M&C Saatchi UK: Gen Kobayashi departs
Chief strategy officer, Gen Kobayashi, has left the M&C Saatchi UK, after a year in the role.
His departure is part of an effort to simplify UK leadership structure and return to divisional leadership across specialisms – as such, he will not be replaced.
