---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-23-024245"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MKTW"
cik: "0001805651"
company_name: "MARKETWISE, INC."
filed_at: "2023-07-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T12:47:43.633966+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.05
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.05
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# MarketWise shareholders elect directors, ratify auditor at 2023 annual meeting

## Summary
- Elected Amber Mason, Mark Gerhard, Matthew Turner as Class II directors with 277M, 275M, 277M votes for, respectively.
- Ratified Deloitte & Touche as independent auditor for FY2023: 285.6M for, 5.3M against, 293K abstain.
- Broker non-votes of 8.69M on each director nominee.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-23-024245
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MKTW
- cik: 0001805651
- company_name: MARKETWISE, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-07-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.05
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.05
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828023024245/0001628280-23-024245-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828023024245/mktw-20230630.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-23-024245.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  MARKETWISE, INC. shareholders approved Ratification of the Appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2023 at the 2023-06-30 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-30
  source text: Proposal 2 - Ratification of the Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm The stockholders ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2023, by the following votes
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828023024245/0001628280-23-024245-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  MARKETWISE, INC. shareholders approved Election of Class II Directors at the 2023-06-30 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-30
  source text: Proposal 1 - Election of Directors Amber Mason, Mark Gerhard and Matthew Turner were each elected to serve as Class II directors until the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their respective successors shall have been duly elected and qualified, by the following votes
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828023024245/0001628280-23-024245-index.htm

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