Who owns the publishing brands

Every publishing brand tracked here, grouped by the company that owns it. Each block is one brand; block groups are owners, so the largest coloured region is the most concentrated owner.

Data as of 8 September 2026. Built from Publishing.

Every publishing brand tracked here, grouped by the company that owns it. Each block is one brand; block groups are owners, so the largest coloured region is the most concentrated owner. Source: Brandtree, CC BY 4.0.

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Advance (6): Condé Nast, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, WIRED
Future (5): Country Life, Marie Claire (UK), PC Gamer, TechRadar, Tom's Guide
Hearst (5): Car and Driver, Cosmopolitan, ELLE (US), Esquire, Good Housekeeping
News Corp (5): Dow Jones, HarperCollins, The Sun, The Times, The Wall Street Journal
Ziff Davis (4): CNET, IGN, Mashable, PCMag
Scholastic (3): Clifford the Big Red Dog, Goosebumps, Scholastic
The New York Times (3): The Athletic, The New York Times, Wirecutter
Bertelsmann (2): Penguin Books, Penguin Random House
Disney (1): National Geographic