Advance Publications
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Type | Private |
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Industry | Mass media |
Founded | 1922 |
Founder | Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. |
Headquarters | One World Trade Center New York City, U.S. |
Number of locations | 102 |
Area served | Worldwide |
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Products | Newspapers, news & information websites, magazines, television |
Revenue | ![]() |
Owner | Newhouse family |
Number of employees | 12,000 |
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Advance Publications, Inc., doing business as Advance, is an American media company owned by the descendants of S.I. Newhouse Sr., Donald Newhouse and S.I. Newhouse Jr. It owns a large number of subsidiary companies, including Condé Nast, and is a major shareholder in Reddit.
History
The company 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.[2]
In August 2018, Advance/Newhouse ("A/N") notified Charter Communications that it intended to establish a credit facility collateralized by a portion of Advance/Newhouse Common Units in Charter Communications Holdings, LLC.[3] That same month, 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.[4]
In March 2020, the company acquired The Ironman Group, a mass participation sports platform including the Ironman Triathlons and Absa Cape Epic mountain bike race, from the Wanda Sports Group.[5]
Description
For most of its history, Advance did not have an official headquarters; most publications listed the Advance offices in Staten Island's Grasmere neighborhood as its nominal headquarters.[2] More recently, it has claimed offices at One World Trade Center in Manhattan as its corporate headquarters.[6]
As of November 2019, it was ranked as the 221st largest privately held company in the United States, according to Forbes.[7]
Subsidiaries
As of August 2021[update], the group owns Condé Nast (which includes the magazines Vogue, The New Yorker and Wired[8]), 1010data, Turnitin, The Ironman Group, Advance Local, ACBJ, Stage Entertainment, Leaders Group and Seattle-based digital agency Pop, Inc., and is a major shareholder in Reddit.[9][8]
The company holds a 8.16% ownership in media conglomorate Warner Bros. Discovery,[10] carried over from its 31% stake in predecessor Discovery, Inc.[11] Advance also owns a 13% stake (as of 2016) in Charter Communications, which it received when Bright House Networks merged with Charter.[12][13]
References
- ^ "Advance Publications". Forbes.com. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
- ^ a b Flamm, Matthew (2010-11-21). "Advance Publications at crossroads". Crain's New York Business. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
- ^ "Charter Prices $500 Million Senior Secured Notes — NASDAQ.com". Nasdaq.com. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
- ^ Jerde, Sara (2018-08-10). "Despite Ups and Downs This Year, Condé Nast's CEO Is Creating a Model That's 'Built to Last'". Adweek.com. Retrieved 2019-08-30.
- ^ "Advance completes acquisition of The IRONMAN Group". Advance.com. 20 July 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ^ "Advance Publications, Inc". Dnb.com. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ^ "America's Largest Private Companies," Forbes.com. Accessed May 05, 2020.
- ^ a b Greenberg, Julia (2015-07-28). "For the Record: The Relationship Between WIRED and Reddit". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
- ^ "Advance". Advance.com. 20 July 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ^ "Warner Bros. Discovery - Annual Reports & Proxies". ir.wbd.com.
- ^ Flamm, Matthew (December 13, 2010). "Advance Publications waving around $500M". Crain's New York Business. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
- ^ "Newhouse Broadcasting reports 13 pct stake in Charter Communications". Reuters.com. 2016-05-27. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
- ^ Steel, Emily (2015-05-26). "Broadband at the Center of Charter-Time Warner Cable Deal". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-05-26.
Further reading
- Lindauer, Wilson B. "Advance Publications Inc.". International Directory of Company Histories. Retrieved 2018-05-28 – via Encyclopedia.com.
- Maier, Thomas (1994). Newhouse: All the Glitter, Power, and Glory of America's Richest Media Empire and the Secretive Man Behind it. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-11481-7.
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