Vice Lays Off at Least 60 Employees to Emphasize Video and Scripted Content Production

Non-video positions are affected

After news came last month of an investment of $450 million, Vice has laid off around 60 employees, or 2 percent of its 3,000-person staff in North America and Europe today.

In an ongoing trend with digital media companies attempting to keep up with, or anticipate, audience demands of video content, Vice will continue to focus on video and scripted content production while also expanding internationally.

“This [investment] will allow us to build up the largest millennial video library in the world, enabling VICE to widen our offering to include news, food, music, fashion, art, travel, gaming, lifestyle, scripted and feature films,” said Shane Smith, Vice’s founder and CEO, at the time of the investment.

Today’s layoffs affect non-video positions across the company’s sales, branded, editorial and corporate divisions, according to The

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