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Endeavor has hired former eBay and PayPal executive Guy Schory as the company’s first Chief Digital Officer. He will be tasked with overseeing digital efforts across Endeavor’s product management, marketing, data platforms, advertising and commerce, and also operate its digital direct-to-consumer and…

Endeavor Group Holdings has updated the planned timeline of its IPO until September at the earliest, giving it time to close a $700 million acquisition and post second-quarter results, according to a person familiar with the situation. The company had previously estimated the offering would happen in the second half…

Todd Kline, a former AEG Global Partnerships executive who as chief commercial officer of the Miami Dolphins helped secure on of the biggest stadium naming-rights deals in the NFL, has joined Endeavor as SVP Sports Talent and Property Sales. In the new position based in New York, Kline will oversee all sales work for W…

The WGA has taken another shot at Endeavor's public offering Thursday, warning potential investors that the new public company's corporate governance structure "dramatically favors company insiders," including CEO Ari Emanuel and executive chairman Patrick Whitesell, and "restricts public investors' ability to…

Veteran media analyst Todd Juenger of Bernstein has offered one of the first detailed looks at Endeavor from a Wall Street perspective ahead of its planned IPO. His conclusion: Investing in the company “is not for the faint of heart,” and the mega-agency’s pitched battle with the Writers Guild is just one of the…

The WGA on Tuesday warned potential investors in Endeavor's new IPO that they "should be aware of serious conflicts of interest inherent in Endeavor's key operations, which have caused substantial client loss and put the company's representation revenues at risk." The warning comes as the guild and Endeavor subsidiary…

UPDATED with Endeavor statement: The WGA told the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday that Endeavor's IPO registration last month inaccurately reported its client numbers, a claim Endeavor has rejected. "In its IPO Registration Statement, Endeavor claims to represent over 6,000 clients including the 'world's…

Ari Emanuel wasn't looking at the Chief of Staff position that his brother held in the Obama administration but the WME boss was certainly considered for a gig in Donald Trump's White House after his Celebrity Apprentice client was elected in 2016 to almost everyone’s surprise. Vetting documents leaked to political…

Endeavor Content television executive Max Saines has died from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a pre-existing heart condition. He was 28 years old.   Saines began his career in the mailroom at WME, later joining the trainee program and working in the agency's television department. He joined Endeavor Content in 2017 and…

June 1, 2019 marks the official 10-year anniversary of the William Morris Agency-Endeavor merger. As part of Deadline’s coverage of the milestone, we reached out to John Ferriter, former WMA EVP/Worldwide Head of Non-Scripted TV, who was the only board member in either company who voted against the merger. He was let…

June 1, 2019 marks the official 10-year anniversary of the William Morris Agency-Endeavor merger. It wasn’t a marriage of equals, with 14-year-old Endeavor, then valued at $100 million-plus, joining forces with a Hollywood royalty, the 111-year-old WMA valued at more than twice as much. But, in one of the most…

Saturday marks the official 10-year anniversary of the William Morris Agency-Endeavor merger into WME. Coincidentally, WME is marking the anniversary with its parent Endeavor filing for an IPO, an illustration of how far the company has gone in a decade. In 2009, Endeavor was a”client-rich” mid-size agency with big…