“Unfortunately, this will result in a reduction of Waze Ads monetization-focused roles in sales, marketing, operations and analytics.”
Google bought Waze for about $1.3 billion in 2013 and is now folding its ads into Google Ads. The unit has more than 500 employees, and the email doesn’t say how many lose their jobs. Waze’s 140 million users were the crowdsourced traffic data. Google keeps the data and cuts the people who sold against it.