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accession: "0001084048-24-000020"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZD"
cik: "0001084048"
company_name: "ZIFF DAVIS, INC."
filed_at: "2024-03-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T22:46:50.965499+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ziff Davis grants PSUs to four top executives under new TSR-based program

## Summary
- Compensation Committee approved new performance stock unit form and granted 71,023 PSUs to CEO Vivek Shah.
- Bret Richter granted 26,167, Jeremy Rossen 9,906, and Layth Taki 6,729 PSUs.
- Vesting based on relative total shareholder return over a three-year performance period.
- Two-year transition period uses less than three-year TSR to avoid annual compensation gap.
- Grants made under the 2015 Stock Option Plan, effective March 6, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001084048-24-000020
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZD
- cik: 0001084048
- company_name: ZIFF DAVIS, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-03-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084048/000108404824000020/0001084048-24-000020-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084048/000108404824000020/zd-20240306.htm

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