Who owns PCMag?
PCMag is owned by Ziff Davis (the United States, NASDAQ: ZD).[1]
Evidence: Ziff Davis, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-24, SEC EDGAR, 24 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Ziff Davis, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, New York, New York
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1982
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Publishing › Newspapers & magazines
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: ZD
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About PCMag
PC Magazine began in 1982 and grew so thick with advertising that individual issues ran past four hundred pages. It stopped printing in 2009 and continues as a review site under the shortened name. Ziff Davis published it from the start, and its PCMag Labs still runs independent hardware testing rather than relying on manufacturer figures.
What Ziff Davis's annual report says about PCMag
Sentences about PCMag from Ziff Davis's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
PCMag is a leading authority on technology, delivering lab-based, independent reviews of the latest products and services.
How often Ziff Davis names PCMag in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of PCMag
- Current owner Ziff Davis [1] verified
Where PCMag sits in Ziff Davis
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Ziff Davis
Ziff Davis controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
Other brands in newspapers & magazines, and who owns them
The 70 brands in newspapers & magazines on Brandtree belong to 16 owners. The largest is Reach, with 9; Ziff Davis has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| BelfastLive | Reach | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Beobachter | Ringier | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Aftenposten | Schibsted Media | 🇳🇴 Norway |
| Condé Nast | Advance | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Country Life | Future | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Car and Driver | Hearst | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Brisbane Times | Nine | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| ARQ | Grupo Clarín | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
About the owner: Ziff Davis
Ziff Davis is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, New York, United States, founded in 1927. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: ZD.
Ziff Davis published computer magazines from the 1980s, went through bankruptcy and several owners, and rebuilt itself as a digital media and internet services group. It now owns several of the technology sites that replaced the magazines it used to print.
🇺🇸 PCMag and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; PCMag is not one of them.
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- AMC — AMC Networks 🇺🇸
- AMC Theatres — AMC Theatres 🇺🇸
- AMF — Lucky Strike Entertainment 🇺🇸
- Adventure Island — United Parks 🇺🇸
- Antenna TV — Nexstar 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of PCMag?
The parent company of PCMag is Ziff Davis, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is PCMag American?
Yes. PCMag originated in the United States in 1982 and its owner, Ziff Davis, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is PCMag still owned by Ziff Davis?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, PCMag is still owned by Ziff Davis. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Ziff Davis, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-24 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 24 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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