---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001495231-25-000189"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IZEA"
cik: "0001495231"
company_name: "IZEA Worldwide, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-12-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:29:29.839445+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# IZEA stockholders elect all seven director nominees, ratify Grant Thornton, approve say-on-pay

## Summary
- Seven directors elected for 2026 term; all nominees received 6.0M+ votes for, 109K–446K withheld.
- Ratification of Grant Thornton as auditor for FY 2025: 11,006,600 for, 91,295 against, 3,990 abstain.
- Non-binding say-on-pay approved with 5,299,996 for, 826,731 against, 68,039 abstain (4.9M broker non-votes).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001495231-25-000189
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IZEA
- cik: 0001495231
- company_name: IZEA Worldwide, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-12-11T23:59:59+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/1495231/000149523125000189/0001495231-25-000189-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1495231/000149523125000189/izea-20251210.htm

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