Variety

Variety

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Variety is a privately owned company headquartered in the US, founded in 1905, with approximately 660 employees, and functioning as a tier 1 media tech buyer. The company specializes in entertainment, offering news and analysis within the industry.

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Founded

1905

Headcount

748

Headquarters

United States

Primary Segment

Entertainment

Ownership

Privately Owned

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Variety's Brent Lang was named editor-in-chief of IndieWire, effective August 17. Lang, based in New York City, will report to Jerry Ruiz, senior vice president operations & finance PMC, bringing editorial leadership and industry expertise to IndieWire. Previously, on July 24, Variety published an exclusive report claiming that Netflix executives considered pulling the controversial docuseries "Michael Jackson: The Verdict" a week before its release. Earlier, on June 15, Variety and Out documented actress Laverne Cox's income dropping by 90% over two years, which Cox attributed to policies under Donald Trump's administration affecting trans rights and DEI initiatives, thereby impacting her bookings, contracts, and brand deals.

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Aug

20th

2026

05:31

A Look at the Game Variety on VegasX

If you're comparing social casinos, one thing is worth paying more attention to than the total number of games: variety. A platform with a real range of formats keeps play fresh in a way that a big pile of one type never can.

Jul

31st

2026

11:05

Management Changes, B2B Tag, Management Changes

Brent Lang Named Editor-in-Chief of IndieWire

Variety‘s Brent Lang has been named the new editor-in-chief of IndieWire, effective August 17. Based in New York City, Lang will report to Jerry Ruiz, senior vice president, operations & finance, PMC. A widely respected journalist and editor, Lang brings a distinctive combination of editorial leadership, industry expertise, and a deep commitment to ambitious, high-quality storytelling to IndieWire.

Jul

24th

2026

23:05

Variety Says Panic, Netflix Says “Nothing to See Here”

A new Variety exclusive has once again sent the Michael Jackson fan community into a frenzy, claiming that Netflix executives seriously considered pulling the controversial docuseries Michael Jackson: The Verdict just one week before its release.

Jun

15th

2026

10:56

Laverne Cox Has Lost 90% of Her Income and Blames Trump’s ‘Regime’

Over the past two years, Laverne Cox’s income dropped by a staggering 90%—and she squarely blames policies under Donald Trump’s administration for this sharp decline. Variety and Out have documented how Cox’s bookings, contracts, and brand deals dried up as new rules targeted trans rights and DEI initiatives.

The Digital Weekly

Jun

15th

2026

01:00

On the variety generated by all semirings of order two

Abstract There are ten distinct two-element semirings up to isomorphism, denoted \( L_2, R_2, M_2, D_2, N_2, T_2, Z_2, W_2, Z_7 \) , and \( Z_8 \) in Bashir and Kepka (2007). Among these, the multiplicative reductions of \( M_2, D_2, W_2 \) , and \( Z_8 \) form semilattices, while the additive reductions of \( L_2, R_2, M_2, \) \( D_2, N_2 \) , and \( T_2 \) are idempotent semilattices, commonly referred to as idempotent semirings .

Jun

11th

2026

09:43

Tracy Morgan's Advice on Colonoscopies for Older Adults

Tracy Morgan turned a comedy conversation into a colon cancer screening reminder. In a new Variety interview, Morgan, 57, moved from stories about Eddie Murphy and fatherhood to a topic many adults would rather avoid: colonoscopies.

May

27th

2026

11:21

Management Changes, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Variety Expands AI Coverage With Hire of Media Reporter Corbin Bolies

Variety has hired Corbin Bolies to cover the growing intersection of artificial intelligence and the entertainment business, a beat that increasingly sits at the center of strategic debates across Hollywood, television, streaming and digital media. Bolies joins the trade publication from The Wrap, where he covered the media industry during a period marked by accelerating consolidation, shifting streaming economics and mounting pressure on legacy entertainment companies to integrate generative AI into production and operational workflows.

May

11th

2026

13:14

Awards and Recognitions, B2B Tag

Variety Nominated for 100 SoCal Journalism Awards, Including Four Nods for Journalist of the Year

Variety has received 100 nominations during the 2025 calendar year for the Los Angeles Press Club’s annual SoCal Journalism Awards. Four journalists were finalists for Journalist of the Year, including Daniel D’Addario for journalist of the year, print (over 50,000 circulation); Brian Steinberg for online journalist of the year; and Brent Lang and Chris Willman, entertainment journalists of the year.

Apr

24th

2026

18:23

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Marketers at Variety summit say AI compresses creative timelines, authenticity with fans is now the baseline expectation

Variety Summit: Speed, Authenticity and AI Reshape Entertainment Marketing Live experiences have moved to the center of the marketing mix, with brands treating audiences as distribution channels rather than passive endpoints. That was the consensus at Variety's Entertainment Marketing Summit in Los Angeles on April 22, where executives from Fox, Netflix, Apple, Warner Bros.

Complete AI Training

Apr

21st

2026

08:19

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

California Privacy Showdown: Why the Variety Media Case Could Impact Every Website

California businesses are facing an unprecedented wave of privacy litigation arising from routine website technologies — analytics tools, tracking pixels, chat widgets, and session‑replay software. At the center of this controversy is Variety Media LLC v.

Apr

12th

2026

15:44

New Sunshine Coach Donated to South Shields School Through Charity Partnership

A leading housebuilder has presented a brand-new minibus, also known as a Sunshine Coach, to Variety as part of a new partnership with the children’s charity. The 17-seater vehicle was handed over to Variety CEO Laurence Guinness by Bellway CEO Jason Honeyman at the company’s national headquarters at Woolsington House in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Newcastle Magazine

Apr

8th

2026

18:30

Awards and Recognitions, B2B Tag

Variety Names Eight O’Melveny Partners to its 2026 Legal Impact Report

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CENTURY CITY—April 9, 2026— Variety has named eight O’Melveny partners to its 2026 “Legal Impact Report,” which recognizes entertainment’s top dealmakers and litigators. The annual special report honored a four-partner team from O’Melveny’s Entertainment and Media Litigation Group and a four-partner team from O’Melveny’s Entertainment and Media Transactions Group.

O'Melveny & Myers

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