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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-24-050209"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AREN"
cik: "0000894871"
company_name: "Arena Group Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-12-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T03:13:36.327483+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Arena Group shareholders elect six directors, ratify KPMG as auditor for FY2024

## Summary
- All six director nominees elected: H. Hunt Allred, Laura Lee, Christopher Petzel, Cavitt Randall, Christopher Fowler, Carlo Zola.
- Each director received over 29 million votes for, with less than 250,000 withheld; broker non-votes of 3,595,925.
- Ratification of KPMG as independent auditor passed with 32,738,109 votes for, 230,849 against, zero abstentions.
- Annual meeting held December 12, 2024; all proposals approved overwhelmingly.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-24-050209
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AREN
- cik: 0000894871
- company_name: Arena Group Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-12-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/894871/000149315224050209/0001493152-24-050209-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/894871/000149315224050209/form8-k.htm

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