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Bending Spoons to lay off half of Tractive staff

Bending Spoons, the Italian tech consolidator that acquired Austrian pet tracker Tractive, plans to lay off around 160 employees, more than half of Tractive's workforce. The company says it wants a leaner organization to operate more flexibly. Affected employees will receive severance packages above industry standards. This follows Bending Spoons' history of deep job cuts after acquiring companies like WeTransfer and Vimeo. Tractive's CEO and CFO have already left the company.

• Bending Spoons acquired Tractive, with closing in May 2026.
• Bending Spoons plans to cut approximately 160 of Tractive's ~300 jobs.
• Affected employees receive severance packages above industry standards.

Bending Spoons Pays €770M for Tractive, Then Cuts 50% Jobs

Italian software group Bending Spoons has acquired Austrian pet GPS tracker company Tractive for $900 million (€770 million) in a deal completed on May 18, 2026. The acquisition, one of the largest in Austrian startup history, includes $781 million at closing and $119 million deferred. Following the purchase, Bending Spoons plans to cut approximately 160 jobs at Tractive's Pasching site, affecting more than half of its 300 employees. The restructuring is part of Bending Spoons' broader strategy to automate operations using proprietary tools like Minerva, Juno, and Xina, ahead of a planned IPO. Affected employees are reportedly receiving above-standard severance packages.

• Bending Spoons entered a definitive agreement to acquire Tractive on March 25, 2026, for $900 million total consideration.
• The transaction completed on May 18, 2026, with $781 million paid at closing and $119 million deferred.
• Bending Spoons plans to cut around 160 jobs at Tractive's Pasching site, affecting more than half of ~300 employees.

Dailymotion's AI Strategy Evolves Over a Decade

Dailymotion has employed machine learning for more than ten years to recognise patterns and optimise towards media KPIs, but the company says ML can be limited when KPI optimisation does not equal broader business outcomes. Paolo Mulè, SVP of Global Clients & Strategic Partnerships at Dailymotion, explains that modern AI and large language models (LLMs) introduce a layer of judgement that can improve how pattern-based ML insights are translated into business-relevant decisions. The piece is an interview with Mulè about Dailymotion Advertising’s AI approach and observations of brand use of AI, filmed in Cannes and published by VideoWeek on 13 July 2026.

• DailyMotion has used machine learning for more than a decade to recognise patterns and optimise towards media KPIs.
• Paolo Mulè is SVP of Global Clients & Strategic Partnerships at Dailymotion and commented that machine learning can be "pretty dumb" when optimising specific KPIs that may not align with business outcomes.
• Dailymotion is using modern AI and large language models (LLMs) to add judgement to the patterns identified by machine learning.