Advance: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Advance is a family-owned company headquartered in New York, New York, United States that owns 6 consumer brands.[1]
Advance is the Newhouse family's private holding company and one of the least visible large media owners in America. It holds Condé Nast outright and substantial stakes in Reddit and Warner Bros. Discovery, so a family firm that publishes no results owns some of the best-known titles in publishing.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Advance Publications, Inc.
- Type
- family-owned company · see all family-owned company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
- Founded
- 1922
- Wikidata
- Q393792
- Website
- www.advance.com
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Advance in numbers
- Advance owns 6 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is media & entertainment with 6 brands.[1]
Everything Advance owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Brand portfolio by category
Advance in the global legal-entity registry
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) keeps an open register of legal entities. Each entity reports its own parents. We show it as a cross-check on the ownership recorded on this page, which is built from filings.
- Legal entity identifier (LEI)
- 549300KRO8HML2LO4860
- Registered name
- Advance Publications, Inc. (US)
- Registration status
- Lapsed · record updated 20 November 2025
- Parent
- None named: it is controlled by one or more individuals, who are not named in the registry.
- Retrieved
- · GLEIF record (JSON)
Frequently asked questions
What brands does Advance own?
Advance owns 6 consumer brands tracked here, including Condé Nast, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, WIRED and Vogue.
Is Advance an American company?
Yes. Advance is headquartered in New York, New York, United States and was founded in 1922.
Who owns Advance?
Advance is privately held. Advance is the Newhouse family's private holding company and one of the least visible large media owners in America.
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] Advance — about us — Advance Publications, Inc., Official document; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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