Advance Publications, Inc. is an American media company owned by the descendants of S.I. Newhouse Sr., Donald Newhouse and S.I. Newhouse Jr. It is named after the Staten Island Advance, the first newspaper owned by the Newhouse family, in which Sam Newhouse bought a controlling interest in 1922.
As of October 2014, it was ranked as the 44th largest privately held company in the United States, according to Forbes. Crain’s ranked Advance Publications the 4th largest private company in the New York area in 2012.
In August 2018, Condé Nast CEO Robert A. Sauerberg Jr. announced his five-year strategy to generate $600 million in new revenue from new revenue streams while driving costs out of the business.
Directly and through various subsidiaries, the group owns all these companies below, Still think you’re getting real news?:
- Advance Local, New York, New York
- Advance Digital, Jersey City, New Jersey
- Advance Central Services, Wilmington, Delaware
- Advance 360 (Digital and Full Service Marketing Agency)
- Headline Studio
- American City Business Journals
- Condé Nast
- Advance Media Southeast
- Alabama Media Group
- AL.com
- gulflive.com
- The Birmingham News (Birmingham, Alabama)
- Press-Register (Mobile, Alabama)
- The Huntsville Times (Huntsville, Alabama)
- The Mississippi Press (Pascagoula, Mississippi)
- Advance Central Services Southeast
- Alabama Media Group
- The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts)
- MassLive Media, Massachusetts
- MLive Media Group
- MLive.com
- The Ann Arbor News (print edition Thursdays & Sundays)[4]
- Kalamazoo Gazette
- Bay City Times
- Flint Journal
- Grand Rapids Press
- Jackson Citizen Patriot
- Muskegon Chronicle
- Saginaw News
- Advance Central Services Michigan
- NJ Advance Media
- NJ.com
- The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey)
- The Times (Trenton, New Jersey)
- The Jersey Journal (Jersey City, New Jersey)
- NJN Publishing
- South Jersey Media Group
- The South Jersey Times
- The Hunterdon Democrat (Flemington, New Jersey)
- Gloucester County Times (Woodbury, New Jersey)
- The News of Cumberland County (Bridgeton, New Jersey)
- Today’s Sunbeam (Salem, New Jersey)
- The Warren Reporter (Hackettstown, New Jersey)
- The Reporter (Somerset County, New Jersey)
- Independent Press (New Providence, New Jersey)
- Suburban News (Clark, New Jersey)
- Cranford Chronicle (Cranford, New Jersey)
- lehighvalleylive.com
- The Express-Times (Easton, Pennsylvania)
- Penn Jersey Advance Central Services
- SILive.com
- Staten Island Advance (Staten Island, New York)
- Advance Media New York
- syracuse.com
- newyorkupstate.com
- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York)
- Advance Central Services Syracuse
- Advance Ohio (New name for Northeast Ohio Media Group as of January 26, 2016)
- cleveland.com
- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Sun Newspapers – weekly newspapers for the Greater Cleveland area
- The Plain Dealer Publishing Company
- Oregonian Media Group
- OregonLive.com
- The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon)
- The Hillsboro Argus (Hillsboro, Oregon)
- Advance Central Services Oregon
- PA Media Group
- The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
- PennLive.com
- Advance Central Services Pennsylvania
Business journals and periodicals
- Sports Business Journal
- Sports Business Daily
- Street & Smiths sports annuals
- Hemmings Motor News
- Hemmings Muscle Machines
- Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car
- Hemmings Classic Car
- Sporting News Media (35%)
- Inside Lacrosse
Magazines
- Condé Nast
- Allure
- Architectural Digest
- Bon Appetit
- Brides
- House & Garden
- Condé Nast Traveler
- Glamour
- Golf Digest
- Golf World
- GQ
- Lucky
- The New Yorker
- Self
- Tatler
- Teen Vogue
- Vanity Fair
- Vogue
- W
- Wired
- The World of Interiors
Condé Nast Digital
- style.com
- thescene.com
- Flip.com
- men.style.com
- Brides.com
- epicurious.com
- concierge.com
- nutritiondata.com
- stylefinder.com
- arstechnica.com
- webmonkey.com
- Wired News
- pitchfork.com
- Including the websites of all Condé Nast’s publications
Other related websites/companies
- POP (acquired 2013)
- 1010data (acquired 2015)
- Pitchfork (acquired 2015)
- reddit.com: “Reddit used to be owned by Condé Nast, but in 2011 it was moved out from under Condé Nast to Advance Publications, which is Condé Nast’s parent company. Then in 2012, Reddit was spun out into a re-incorporated independent entity with its own board and control of its own finances, hiring a new CEO and bringing back co-founder Alexis Ohanian to serve on the board. Reddit has 3 sets of shareholders: The largest shareholder is still Advance Publications. The second-largest set of shareholders are Reddit employees. In the spin-out that occurred in early 2012, Advance voluntarily reduced its sole ownership to that of a partial owner in order to put ownership in the hands of current and future employees. The third and smallest fraction consists of a set of angel investors.”
- Charter Communications shareholder following May 2016 merger of Bright House Networks
- Discovery Communications shareholder