Who owns Tom's Guide?
Tom's Guide is owned by Future (the United Kingdom, LSE: FUTR), which has owned the brand since 24 September 2018.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Future plc Annual Report 2025, 4 December 2025 (archived copy). Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Future plc reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, Bath
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1996
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Publishing › Newspapers & magazines
- Parent ticker
- LSE: FUTR
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Tom's Guide
Tom's Guide grew out of Tom's Hardware, a site started by a Chicago engineer testing components in his spare time. Future acquired the group in 2018, and both sites continue as separate publications. Future publishes it, and its testing lab in New York runs standardised benchmarks so that reviews across different years remain comparable.
Ownership timeline of Tom's Guide
Where Tom's Guide sits in Future
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Future
Future controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
- Country Life (1897)
- Marie Claire (UK) (1937)
- PC Gamer (1993)
- TechRadar (2008)
Other brands in newspapers & magazines, and who owns them
The 77 brands in newspapers & magazines on Brandtree belong to 17 owners. The largest is Reach, with 9; Future has 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| BelfastLive | Reach | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Business Daily | Nation Media Group | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
| Beobachter | Ringier | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Aftenposten | Schibsted Media | 🇳🇴 Norway |
| Condé Nast | Advance | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Car and Driver | Hearst | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Brisbane Times | Nine | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| ARQ | Grupo Clarín | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
About the owner: Future
Future is a publicly listed company headquartered in Bath, United Kingdom, founded in 1985. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as LSE: FUTR.
Future was founded in Bath in 1985 publishing computer magazines and has become one of the largest special-interest publishers in the English-speaking world by buying titles other companies were giving up on. Much of its revenue now comes from affiliate commissions rather than advertising.
🇺🇸 Tom's Guide and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,570 brands that began in the United States. 492 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Tom's Guide among them.
- 20th Century Studios — Disney 🇺🇸
- 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 Tom's Guide?
The parent company of Tom's Guide is Future, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Is Tom's Guide American or British?
Tom's Guide originated in the United States in 1996, but it is owned today by Future, which is headquartered in the United Kingdom. So Tom's Guide is an American-origin brand under British ownership.
Since when has Future owned Tom's Guide?
Future has owned Tom's Guide since 24 September 2018.
Is Tom's Guide still owned by Future?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Tom's Guide is still owned by Future. 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] Future plc Annual Report 2025 — Future plc, Annual report, published 4 December 2025; retrieved 16 September 2026. The original address no longer opens it, so the link goes to an archived copy (original address).
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