The departures of two top execs before Quibi even launches next year is not a great look, but agency and media execs see past the recent executive shuffling.
September 10, 2019

Within the past month, Jeffrey Katzenberg’s yet-to-launch mobile video service Quibi has lost two of its top execs -- head of advertising and partnerships Tim Connolly and Janice Min, who had been in charge of the company’s daily programming deals with media companies -- but ad buyers aren't ready to hit the panic button. Read more below.

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