Emap is set to make redundancies in its radio and music division as it stops selling advertising on its website, cuts its online content down and refocuses its interactive team.
Websites Kiss 100, the Big City Network, Kerrang! Q, and TV channels including Smash Hits will no longer runs ads. The Kiss and The Big City Network websites will remain largely the same but the Q, Smash Hits and Kiss websites are expected to be scaled down considerably.
The group owner of the titles, Emap Performance is said to be redirecting its interactive team towards on-air sales and promotions, digital radio, mobile phone content and ticketing for events through the aloud.com website.
A spokesperson said: "The websites will no longer be a profit and loss operation, and will no longer concentrate on the advertising side, but instead on areas we have identified as bigger revenue opportunities."
The spokesperson added that Emap will attempt to house those who are affected elsewhere in the company.