Accrued Expenses

9 Months Ended

Sep. 01, 2017

Payables and Accruals [Abstract]

ACCRUED EXPENSES

ACCRUED EXPENSES

Accrued expenses as of September 1, 2017 and December 2, 2016 consisted of the following (in thousands):

	2017		2016
Accrued compensation and benefits	$	373,448	$	339,487
Accrued media costs	129,602		5,144
Sales and marketing allowances	47,075		55,681
Accrued corporate marketing	54,921		55,218
Taxes payable	43,079		43,113
Royalties payable	39,666		25,089
Accrued interest expense	6,781		25,805
Other	237,720		190,093
Accrued expenses	$	932,292	$	739,630

Accrued media costs primarily relate to our advertising platform offerings from TubeMogul. We accrue for media costs related to impressions purchased from third-party ad inventory sources. Other primarily includes general corporate accruals for local and regional expenses. Other is also comprised of deferred rent related to office locations with rent escalations and foreign currency liability derivatives.