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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. o On March 6, 2024, the Compensation Committee of the Board approved a new form of performance-based restricted stock unit (“PSU”) agreement to be used in connection with grants under the Ziff Davis, Inc. 2015 Stock Option Plan (the “2015 Stock Plan”).

Further, on March 6, 2024, the Compensation Committee issued 71,023, 26,167, 9,906 and 6,729 PSUs (the “2024 PSUs”) to Vivek Shah, Bret Richter, Jeremy D. Rossen and Layth Taki, respectively, and in each case pursuant to the new form of PSU agreement approved by the Compensation Committee. In connection with the redesign of our performance award program, PSU awards are designed to vest if we achieve certain levels of relative total shareholder return (“TSR”) over a three-year performance period. However, during the initial two-year transition period, the vesting of certain of the PSUs will be based on meeting relative TSR levels over less than a three-year performance period to ensure our named executive officers do not see a significant gap in annual compensation as we move from one-year targeted vesting to the three-year relative TSR program.

The foregoing description of the form of PSU agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the text of the form of PSU agreement, which will be filed in the next Form 10-Q filed by Ziff Davis, Inc.

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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.