Accrued Expenses

12 Months Ended

Dec. 01, 2017

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



	2017		2016
Accrued compensation and benefits	$	417,742	$	339,487
Accrued media costs	134,525		5,144
Sales and marketing allowances	47,389		55,681
Accrued corporate marketing	72,087		55,218
Taxes payable	49,550		43,113
Royalties payable	46,411		25,089
Accrued interest expense	25,594		25,805
Other	200,475		190,093
Accrued expenses	$	993,773	$	739,630

Accrued media costs primarily relate to our advertising platform offerings from TubeMogul, which are part of the Advertising Cloud. 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.