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Item 1. Business

2022-03-15 compared with 2021-03-01 · 93 added, 77 removed, 177 unchanged (49% of the section changed)

J2 Global, Inc., together with its subsidiaries (“J2 Global”, “our”, “us” or “we”), is a leading provider of internet information and services.

Our Digital Media business specializes in the technology, shopping, gaming, and healthcare markets, offering content, tools and services to consumers and businesses.

Our Cloud Services business provides cloud-based subscription services to consumers and businesses including cloud fax, cybersecurity, privacy and marketing technology.

Ziff Davis, Inc., together with its subsidiaries (“Ziff Davis”, the “Company”, “our”, “us” or “we”), is a leading provider of internet information and services.

Our Digital Media business specializes in the technology, shopping, entertainment, and health and wellness markets, offering content, tools and services to consumers and businesses.

Our Cybersecurity and Martech business provides cloud-based subscription services to consumers and businesses including cybersecurity, privacy and marketing technology.

Our Digital Media business generates revenues from advertising and sponsorships, subscription and usage fees, performance marketing and licensing fees.

Our Cloud Services business generates revenues primarily from customer subscription and usage fees.

Our Cybersecurity and Martech businesses generate revenues primarily from customer subscription and usage fees.

In addition to growing our business organically, on a regular basis we acquire businesses to grow our customer bases, expand and diversify our service offerings, enhance our technologies, acquire skilled personnel and enter into new markets.

Our consolidated revenues are currently generated from three basic business models, each with different financial profiles and variability.

Our consolidated revenues are currently generated primarily from two basic business models, each with different financial profiles and variability.

Our Digital Media business is driven primarily by advertising revenues, has relatively higher sales and marketing expense and has seasonal strength in the fourth quarter.

Our Cloud Services business is driven primarily by subscription revenues that are relatively higher margin, stable and predictable from quarter to quarter with some minor seasonal weakness in the fourth quarter.

Our Cybersecurity and Martech business is driven primarily by subscription revenues, with relatively stable and predictable margins from quarter to quarter.

We continue to pursue additional acquisitions, which may include companies operating under business models that differ from those we operate under today.

Such acquisitions could impact our consolidated profit margins and the variability of our revenues.

J2 Global was incorporated in 2014 as a Delaware corporation through the creation of a holding company structure, and our Cloud Services business, operated by our wholly owned subsidiary, J2 Cloud Services, LLC (formerly J2 Cloud Services, Inc.), and its subsidiaries, was founded in 1995.

In March 2022, Ziff Davis issued its first annual Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Report.

Included in the report are the findings from our first GreenHouse Gas inventory, which calculates our Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.

Our ESG efforts focus on five critical pillars:

diversity, equity and inclusion;

data security and data privacy;

environmental sustainability;

community engagement;

and governance, transparency and accountability.

The report highlights the policies, programs and practices Ziff Davis has in place to tackle critical challenges and the tangible results we have already achieved across our business, within our industry, and in our communities.

Included in the report are details about several new programs including our Global Mentorship Program, ReStart Returnship Program, and Internal Mobility Program, among others.

Ziff Davis was incorporated in 2014 as a Delaware corporation through the creation of a holding company structure.

Our Cybersecurity and Martech businesses are operated by our wholly owned subsidiary J2 Global Ventures, LLC.

Prior to the spin-off of Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc.

(“Consensus”), our Cybersecurity and Martech businesses were operated by our former wholly owned subsidiary J2 Cloud Services, LLC (formerly J2 Cloud Services, Inc.), which was founded in 1995, and subsidiaries of J2 Cloud Services, LLC.

On October 7, 2021 (the “Distribution Date”), the Company completed the previously announced separation (the “Separation”) of its cloud fax business into Consensus, an independent publicly traded company, and the Company transferred J2 Cloud Services, LLC to Consensus who in turn transferred non-fax assets and liabilities back to Ziff Davis such that Consensus was left with the cloud fax business.

In connection with the Separation we changed our name to Ziff Davis, Inc.

(“Ziff Davis”) from J2 Global, Inc.

(for certain events prior to October 7, 2021, the Company may be referred to as J2 Global) and began trading under the stock symbol “ZD”.

The Separation was achieved through the Company’s distribution of 80.1% of the shares of Consensus common stock to holders of Company common stock as of the close of business on October 1, 2021, the record date for the distribution.

Before the Separation, we reported our results as Digital Media and Cloud Services.

In connection with the Separation, we now refer to these segments as Digital Media and Cybersecurity and Martech, each of which is further described below.

Digital Media

Our Digital Media business operates a portfolio of web properties and apps which includes IGN, RetailMeNot, Mashable, PCMag, Humble Bundle, Speedtest, Offers, Black Friday, MedPageToday, Everyday Health, BabyCenter and What to Expect, among others.

During 2020, our Digital Media web properties attracted approximately 9.1 billion visits and 31.5 billion page views.

Our properties provide trusted reviews of technology, gaming and lifestyle products and services;

During 2021, our Digital Media web properties attracted approximately 8.5 billion web visits and 29.6 billion views.

Our properties provide trusted reviews of technology, shopping and entertainment products and services;

news and commentary related to their vertical markets;

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We believe competitive factors relating to attracting and retaining users include the ability to provide premium and exclusive content and the reach, effectiveness, and efficiency of our marketing services to attract consumers, advertisers, healthcare professionals and publishers.

We continue to seek opportunities to acquire additional web properties, both within and outside of the technology, gaming, lifestyle, and healthcare verticals, with the goal of monetizing their audiences and content through application of our proprietary technologies and insight.

We continue to seek opportunities to acquire additional web properties, both within and outside of the technology, shopping, entertainment, and health and wellness verticals, with the goal of monetizing their audiences and content through application of our proprietary technologies and insight.

Web Properties

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We operate one of the largest and oldest independent testing facilities for consumer technology products.

Founded in 1984, our lab produces more than 2,200 unbiased technology product and service reviews annually.

PCMag’s “Editor’s Choice” award is recognized globally as a trusted mark for buyers and sellers of technology products and services.

Mashable.com is a global media brand publishing premium content for individuals interested in technology and culture.

Founded in 1984, our lab produces unbiased technology product and service reviews, and PCMag’s “Editor’s Choice” award is recognized globally as a trusted mark for buyers and sellers of technology products and services.

Mashable is a global media brand publishing premium content for individuals interested in technology and culture.

Mashable is recognized as a trusted global brand and produces stories for more than a dozen platforms, including Snapchat, Twitter and Facebook.

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As a result, Ookla maintains comprehensive analytics on worldwide internet performance and accessibility.

Ookla solutions have been adopted by a significant number of internet service providers and mobile carriers worldwide and have been translated into over 30 languages for use by thousands of businesses, governments, universities and trade organizations.

Ookla solutions have been adopted by a significant number of internet service providers and mobile carriers worldwide and have been translated into dozens of languages for use by thousands of businesses, governments, universities and trade organizations.

Ookla also offers its customers connectivity monitoring, testing and insights under the RootMetrics, Solutelia and SpatialBuzz brands.

Ekahau provides solutions for enterprise wireless network design and troubleshooting.

More than 15,000 customers run their networks with Ekahau’s Wi-Fi planning and measurement solutions, which design and manage superior wireless networks by seeking to minimize network deployment time and establish sufficient wireless coverage across the network.

Customers run their networks with Ekahau’s Wi-Fi planning and measurement solutions, which design and manage superior wireless networks by seeking to minimize network deployment time and establish sufficient wireless coverage across the network.

Downdetector offers real-time overviews of status information and outages for services and digital products that consumers use every day.

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BlackFriday.com, TheBlackFriday.com, BestBlackFriday.com and DealsofAmerica.com are resources for shoppers to find the best deals and offers from retailers during the height of the holiday shopping season.

I GN Entertainment is an internet media brand focused on the video game and entertainment enthusiast markets.

IGN reaches more than 254 million monthly users across 28 platforms and is followed by more than 47 million social and YouTube followers with 500 million minutes watched monthly.

Entertainment

IGN Entertainment is an internet media brand focused on the video game and entertainment enthusiast markets.

IGN reaches more than 280 million monthly users across 28 platforms and is followed by nearly 50 million social and YouTube followers with 500 million minutes watched monthly.

HumbleBundle.com is a digital subscription and storefront for video games, ebooks, and software.

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Each product sale transaction at Humble Bundle results in a charitable contribution.

Everyday Health Group properties include a collection of health and wellness content and services for the consumer, expecting and new parents and healthcare professionals.

Everyday Health Consumer

Health and Wellness

Everyday Health Group (“EHG”) operates a portfolio of properties focused on driving better clinical and health outcomes through decision-making informed by highly relevant information, data and analytics.

EHG is organized around three audiences:

Health and Wellness Consumers, Pregnancy & Parenting, and Healthcare Professionals.

Health and Wellness Consumers

Consumer-focused properties include online content, news, interactive tools and applications designed to allow consumers to manage a broad array of health and wellness needs on a daily basis.

Everyday Health , our flagship brand, is a broad-based health information portal that provides consumers with trusted and actionable health and wellness information intended to empower users to better manage their health and wellness.

The Mayo Clinic Diet is a digital program, a subscription-based plan for weight loss, and ultimately better health, developed by the weight loss experts at Mayo Clinic.

Based on the bestselling book by the same name, the Mayo Clinic Diet digital program provides a step-by-step program to jump-start quick weight loss, achieve a goal weight and maintain it for life.

Everyday Health Pregnancy & Parenting

Castle Connolly , a premier brand in healthcare provider research and rankings, publishes the renowned peer-reviewed Top Doctor series, including America’s Top Doctors .

At present, there are approximately 6%, or over 61,000, of U.S.

physicians across all specialties who have been nominated by their peers and have had their credentials validated by Castle Connolly’s research team.

EHG provides advertisers access to the Everyday Health Trusted Care Access Portfolio (“TCAP”) of digital health properties.

In addition to Everyday Health and other EHG-owned and operated consumer websites, including Diabetes Daily and Migraine Again, TCAP features digital properties of two of the most world-renowned medical centers, to which Everyday Health holds exclusive advertising representation rights.

Pregnancy & Parenting

BabyCenter is the leading global digital pregnancy and parenting resource.

BabyCenter operates 10 international versions in nine different languages delivered via websites, mobile apps and online communities.

BabyCenter operates nine international versions in seven different languages delivered via websites, mobile apps and online communities.

We also operate the digital properties for the What to Expect brand, a leading pregnancy and parenting media resource.

Based on the best-selling pregnancy book, What to Expect When You’re Expecting , by author Heidi Murkoff, the What to Expect website and mobile applications contain interactive content on conception planning and pregnancy, as well as information on raising newborns and toddlers.

Everyday Health Professional

Health and Wellness Professionals

For healthcare professionals, we provide digital content that enables healthcare professionals to stay abreast of clinical, industry, legislative and regulatory developments across all major medical specialties.

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For two of the last four years, PRIME has been honored by the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions as winner of the William Campbell Felch Award for Outstanding Research in Continuing Education (“CE”).

Health eCareers provides a digital portal to connect physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certified registered nurse anesthetists with jobs in every medical specialty.

Health eCareers contracts with thousands of healthcare employers across the United States and an exclusive network of premier healthcare associations and community partners seeking connections to qualified healthcare professionals to fill open positions.

Subscriptions

We offer subscriptions to businesses for Speedtest Intelligence, which offers up-to-date insights into global fixed broadband and mobile performance data.

We offer subscriptions to consumers for our Mayo Clinic Diet program, PCMag Digital Edition and Humble Bundle.

We primarily offer subscription and licensing services to businesses for Speedtest Intelligence, which offers up-to-date insights into global fixed broadband and mobile performance data, as well as monthly subscription packages to consumers through Humble Bundle.

Display and Video Advertising

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Competition in the digital media space is fierce and continues to intensify.

Our digital media business competes with diversified internet and digital media companies like IAC/InterActiveCorp, Red Ventures, Internet Brands and others as well as with other sellers of advertising including Google, Facebook, and others.

Our digital media business competes with (i) diversified internet and digital media companies like IAC/InterActiveCorp, Future PLC, Red Ventures, Internet Brands, (ii) vertical-specific digital media companies like GoodRx, TechTarget, Vox, Centerfield, Doximity, CarGurus and Fandom and (iii) other large sellers of advertising including Google, Facebook, Snap, Twitch and others.

We believe that the primary competitive factors determining our success in the market for our digital media include the reputation of brands as trusted sources of objective information and our ability to attract internet users and advertisers to our web properties and our expertise in multiple methods of monetization.

Some of these companies may have greater financial and other resources than we do.

For more information regarding the competition that we face, please refer to the section entitled Risk Factors contained in Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Cloud Services

Cybersecurity and Martech

Consumers and businesses of all sizes are increasingly subscribing to cloud-based services to meet their communication, messaging, security, privacy, customer marketing and other needs.

Cloud-based services represent a model for delivering and consuming, independent of location, real time business technology services, resources and solutions over the internet.

Our Cybersecurity and Martech services represent a model for delivering and consuming, real time business technology services, resources and solutions over the internet.

Their goal is to reduce or eliminate costs, increase sales and enhance productivity, mobility, business continuity and security.

Our eFax®, MyFax® and sFax® fax services enable users to securely send and receive faxes via the internet and email.

Our VIPRE security and Inspired eLearning cybersecurity solutions protect our customers from cyber threats with endpoint and email security, threat intelligence and security awareness training.

IPVanish and Encrypt.me provide virtual private networks that encrypt our customers’ data and activity on the internet.

IPVanish provides virtual private networks that encrypt our customers’ data and activity on the internet.

Livedrive enables our customers to securely back up their data and dispose of tape or other physical systems.

Campaigner®, iContact, and SMTP provide our customers enhanced email marketing and delivery solutions.

SEOMoz, Kickbox, Campaigner, iContact, and SMTP provide our customers with search engine optimization tools and enhanced email marketing and delivery solutions.

eVoice and Line2 provide our customers a virtual phone system with various available enhancements.

We believe these services represent more efficient and less expensive solutions than many existing alternatives, and provide increased security, privacy, flexibility and mobility.

We generate substantially all of our Cloud Services revenues from “fixed” subscription revenues for basic customer subscriptions and, to a lesser extent, “variable” usage revenues generated from actual usage by our subscribers.

In addition, the cost structures of all our Cloud Services are very similar in terms of fixed and variable components and include capital expenditures that are in proportion to revenue for each product offering.

We market our Cloud Services offerings to a broad spectrum of prospective business customers including sole proprietors, small to medium-sized businesses, enterprises and government organizations.

We also market our Cloud Services offerings to consumers.

We generate substantially all of our Cybersecurity and Martech revenues from “fixed” subscription revenues for basic customer subscriptions and, to a lesser extent, “variable” usage revenues generated from actual usage by our subscribers.

We market our Cybersecurity and Martech offerings to a broad spectrum of prospective business customers including sole proprietors, small to medium-sized businesses, enterprises and government organizations.

We also market our Cybersecurity and Martech offerings to consumers.

Our marketing efforts include enhancing brand awareness;

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We continuously seek to extend the number of distribution channels through which we acquire paying customers and improve the cost and volume of customers obtained through our current channels.

We offer the following cloud services and solutions:

eFax® is a leading brand in the global cloud fax market.

Various tiers of service provide increasing levels of features and functionality to sole proprietors, small and medium-sized businesses, and enterprises around the world.

Our most popular services allow individuals to receive and send faxes as email attachments.

In addition to eFax® , we offer cloud fax services under a variety of alternative brands including sFax®, SRFax, MyFax® , and eFax Corporate™ .

Cybersecurity

Our Cybersecurity and Martech businesses operate as the VIPRE Security Group and the Moz Group, respectively.

VIPRE Security Group

VIPRE software solutions protect people and businesses from costly and malicious cyber threats.

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IPVanish offers one of the fastest virtual private network services in the industry.

The IPVanish network spans 1,300+ servers across more than 75 locations around the world, enabling users to browse the internet securely and anonymously, without restriction.

The IPVanish network spans over 2,000 servers across more than 75 locations around the world, enabling users to browse the internet securely and anonymously, without restriction.

SugarSync provides online file backup, synchronization and sharing of all of a customer’s documents, photos, music and movies across all of the customer’s computers and mobile devices.

Encrypt.me is an easy-to-use virtual private network (“VPN”) service that protects individuals, families and teams.

Encrypt.me has a global server infrastructure and offers the option of self-hosted cloud VPN servers which users can set up in their homes, offices or remote data centers.

LiveDrive provides online backup and sync storage features for professionals and individuals.

The customers can access their files from anywhere at any time so long as they have access to the internet.

SMB Enablement Services

Campaigner® and iContact provide email marketing solutions to help small, medium and large businesses strengthen customer relationships and drive sales.

Campaigner and iContact offer professional email campaign creation, advanced list management and segmentation tools, marketing automation, attribution reports and campaign tracking, and targeted email autoresponders and workflows.

Campaigner , iContact and Kickbox provide email marketing solutions to help small, medium and large businesses strengthen customer relationships and drive sales, and offer professional email campaign creation, advanced list management, segmentation and verification tools, marketing automation, attribution reports and campaign tracking, and targeted email autoresponders and workflows.

eVoice is a virtual phone system that provides small and medium-sized businesses on-demand voice communications services.

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Line2 enables users to separate work and personal calls on a single device and includes standard business phone service features such as SMS, MMS, auto attendant, call routing, call forwarding, voicemail, call queue, toll-free and vanity numbers.

Our Cloud Services business faces competition from, among others, cloud fax-providers, traditional fax machine or multi-function printer companies, unified messaging/communications providers, healthcare inoperability solutions, email marketing solution providers, cyber security software and service vendors, and virtual private networks.

Our online fax and cybersecurity solutions compete against traditional fax machine manufacturers, which are generally large and well-established companies, as well as publicly traded and privately-held providers of online fax services, cybersecurity solutions and related software, such as OpenText and Mimecast.

Our Cloud Services business also competes against diversified and acquisitive vertical market software providers like Constellation Software.

Moz Pro, Moz Local and Stat Analytics offer search engine optimization services that are used to help understand and improve traffic, rankings and visibility in search results.

Our Cybersecurity and Martech business faces competition from, among others, email marketing solution providers, marketing automation services, cyber security software and service vendors, and virtual private networks.

Our online cybersecurity solutions compete against publicly traded and privately-held providers of cybersecurity solutions and related software, such as NortonLifeLock, Kape Technologies, KnowBe4 and Malwarebytes.

Our marketing technology solutions compete directly with various providers of search engine optimization technology and communication platforms that provide email and voice-related services to small- and medium-sized businesses, including companies like SEMRush, MailChimp, The Campaign Monitor group, Constant Contact and Dialpad.

Our Cybersecurity and Martech business also competes against diversified and acquisitive vertical market software providers like Constellation Software.

Some of these companies may have greater financial and other resources than we do.

We believe that the primary competitive factors determining our success in the market for our Cloud Services include financial strength and stability;

We believe that the primary competitive factors determining our success in the market for our Cybersecurity and Martech include financial strength and stability;

reputation for reliability and security of service;

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and foreign patents.

We are currently engaged in litigation to enforce several of our patents.

For a more detailed description of the lawsuits in which we are involved, see Item 3.

Legal Proceedings.

We intend to continue to invest in patents, to aggressively protect our patent assets from unauthorized use and to generate patent licensing revenues from authorized users.

Several of our U.S.

patents have been reaffirmed through reexamination proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”).

We have generated royalties from licensing certain of our patents and have enforced certain patents against companies using our patented technology without our permission.

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We have obtained patent licenses for certain technologies where such licenses are necessary or advantageous.

We own and use a number of trademarks in connection with our services, including word and/or logo trademarks for IGN, Everyday Health, BabyCenter, Humble Bundle, PCMag, eFax, Mashable, Ookla, Speedtest, and RetailMeNot, among others.

We own and use a number of trademarks in connection with our services, including word and/or logo trademarks for IGN, Everyday Health, BabyCenter, Humble Bundle, PCMag, Mashable, Ookla, Speedtest, and RetailMeNot, among others.

Many of these trademarks are registered worldwide, and numerous trademark applications are pending around the world.

We hold numerous internet domain names, including “everydayhealth.com”, “retailmenot.com”, “efax.com”, “pcmag.com”, “ign.com”, “speedtest.net”, “offers.com”, “humblebundle.com”, “mashable.com”, and “babycenter.com”, among others.

We hold numerous internet domain names, including “everydayhealth.com”, “retailmenot.com”, “pcmag.com”, “ign.com”, “speedtest.net”, “offers.com”, “humblebundle.com”, “mashable.com”, and “babycenter.com”, among others.

We have filed to protect our rights to our brands in certain alternative top-level domains such as “.org”, “.net”, “.biz”, “.info” and “.us”, among others.

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Revenues associated with our Digital Media operations are subject to seasonal fluctuations, becoming most active during the fourth quarter holiday period due to increased retail activity.

Our Cloud Services revenues are impacted by the number of effective business days in a given period.

We traditionally experience lower than average Cloud Services usage and customer sign-ups in the fourth quarter.

Our Cybersecurity and Martech revenues are impacted by the number of effective business days in a given period.

We traditionally experience lower than average Cybersecurity and Martech usage and customer sign-ups in the fourth quarter.

Research and Development

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Human Capital Resources

As of December 31, 2020, we had approximately 4,700 employees, evenly split between U.S.

As of December 31, 2021, we had approximately 4,900 employees, nearly evenly split between U.S.

and non-U.S based employees.

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Approximately 70 of the editorial employees in our Digital Media business have elected to join a union.

We chose to voluntarily recognize the union and have commenced negotiations on a collective bargaining agreement.

We chose to voluntarily recognize the union and have negotiated a collective bargaining agreement with the union.

None of our other employees are represented by collective bargaining.

Acquisition Strategy Impact on Human Capital

J2 Global has made more than 189 acquisitions since its inception, including nine during 2020.

Since 2012, we have deployed more than $2.8 billion on more than 80 acquisitions across the globe in a variety of verticals within the internet and software categories.

Welcoming and integrating new groups of employees - each group with its own unique culture, organizational norms, and expectations - is a strength of ours.

We have developed processes to reduce the human capital risk associated with our acquisition strategy, and we believe that our ability to effectively integrate new employees and businesses is a core competency for J2 Global.

Culture at J2 Global operates on two levels.

Culture at Ziff Davis operates on two levels.

While we have a strong enterprise-wide culture that focuses on our core values – leadership, collaboration, efficiency, innovation, and purpose – we also have a strong network of micro-cultures that operate within many of our businesses and drive their success.

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we work hard to foster an environment of collaboration and embrace the power of small groups working together.

An important dimension of the enterprise culture at J2 Global stems from our belief that profitability and corporate responsibility go hand in hand.

An important dimension of the enterprise culture at Ziff Davis stems from our belief that profitability and corporate responsibility go hand in hand.

We believe that “Doing is Greater than Talking,” which has been a rallying cry to employees, galvanizing them to take action to create social value and impact.

With their work and many contributions, our employees play a crucial role in supporting J2 Global’s “Five Pillars of Purpose,” which today include:

With their work and many contributions, our employees play a crucial role in supporting Ziff Davis’s “Five Pillars of Purpose,” which today include:

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - Reinforce our diverse workforce, reflect our diverse audiences, and extend upon our inclusive culture.

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Our digital media audiences and cloud services users are diverse – gender, race, ethnicity, age, orientation, geography, education, background, interests, and more.

We believe that for our business to succeed over the long term, J2 Global must have an inclusive corporate culture that embraces diversity and promotes equity across our enterprise.

Our digital media audiences and Cybersecurity and Martech services users are diverse – gender, race, ethnicity, age, orientation, geography, education, background, interests, and more.

We believe that for our business to succeed over the long term, Ziff Davis must have an inclusive corporate culture that embraces diversity and promotes equity across our enterprise.

We are taking steps to promote that culture.

To date, we have:

• created J2 Diversity Council, a diverse group of employees that develops recommendations for recruiting, mentorship, and advancement;

• created Ziff Davis Council, a diverse group of employees that develops recommendations for recruiting, mentorship, and advancement;

• supported five Employee Resource Groups to increase opportunities for networking, learning, and development, with more groups to come;

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We believe that transparency and accountability are important parts of managing human capital risk.

To that end, in 2020 we published our inaugural Annual Diversity Report, available on our website, which details our workforce race representation, gender representation, and details how those differ between our overall workforce and our senior employees, as well as introducing commitments to DEI initiatives within our current and future workforce.

To that end, in 2021 we published our second Annual Diversity Report, available on our website, which details our workforce race representation, gender representation, and details how those differ between our overall workforce and our senior employees, as well as introducing commitments to DEI initiatives within our current and future workforce.

We are proud of our progress to date – and we recognize we have much more to do.

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We have had success in this area;

38 percent of all recent new hires have been people of color, and 44 percent of recent new hires have been women.

37 percent of all recent new hires have been people of color, and 57 percent of recent new hires in the U.S.

have been women.

We are working to proactively attract more diverse talent;

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employees, an employee stock purchase program, flexible time off, free access to telemedicine, up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for birth parents, family planning support, 16 hours annually of fully paid Volunteer Time Off, partnering with Benevity to support volunteer event opportunities globally, and a program encouraging personal paths to wellness called “Wellness Your Way.”

Health and Wellness

Creating a culture where all colleagues feel supported and valued is paramount to our corporate mission.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to unique challenges, and we are striving to ensure the health, safety and general well-being of our colleagues.

In 2020, we introduced a mental health education program which will continue with quarterly events throughout 2021.

In 2020, we introduced a mental health education program which continued with quarterly events throughout 2021.

We continue to evolve our programs to meet our colleagues’ health and wellness needs, which we believe is essential to attract and retain employees of the highest caliber, and we offer a competitive benefits package focused on fostering work/life integration.

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We file Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).

Such reports and other information and amendments thereto filed or furnished by the Company with the SEC are available free of charge on the Company’s website at www.J2.com as soon as reasonably practicable after we file such reports with, or furnish them to, the SEC’s website.

Such reports and other information and amendments thereto filed or furnished by the Company with the SEC are available free of charge on the Company’s website at www.ziffdavis.com as soon as reasonably practicable after we file such reports with, or furnish them to, the SEC’s website.

The information on our website is not part of this report.

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Our Board has adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that applies to all of our directors and employees.

The Code is posted on the corporate governance page of J2 Global’s website, and can be accessed at http://investor.j2global.com .

The Code is posted on the corporate governance page of Ziff Davis’s website, and can be accessed at http://investor.ziffdavis.com.

Any changes to or waiver of our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics for senior financial officers, executive officers or directors will be posted on that website.

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Item 1. Business