Advance Publications
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Advance Publications, Inc. is a privately held American media company owned by the families of Donald Newhouse and Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., the sons of company founder Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. It owns publishing-related companies including American City Business Journals, MLive Media Group, and Condé Nast, and is a major shareholder in Charter Communications (13% ownership), Reddit (30% ownership), and Warner Bros. Discovery (3.97% ownership).
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.<ref name="HQ" />
On August 25, 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.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Description
For most of its history, Advance had no official headquarters; most publications listed the Advance offices in Staten Island's Grasmere neighborhood as its nominal headquarters.<ref name="HQ">Template:Cite news</ref>
While it did not have a corporate headquarters, Advance operated a press bureau in Washington, D.C.—the Newhouse News Service (NNS). Opened in 1961, NNS served as a national news bureau for all Advance portfolio publications until it closed in late 2008 as a cost-cutting measure due to the 2008 financial crisis.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:As of Advance was ranked as the 221st largest privately held company in the United States, according to Forbes.<ref>"America's Largest Private Companies", Forbes.com. Accessed May 5, 2020.</ref>
Subsidiaries
Template:Main Template:As of the group owns Condé Nast (which includes the magazines Vogue, The New Yorker, and Wired), The Ironman Group, Turnitin, Advance Local, American City Business Journals, Stage Entertainment, Leaders Group, and the Seattle-based digital agency Pop, Inc., and is a large shareholder in Reddit.<ref name="Advance 2020">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="reddit">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
The company holds an 3.97% ownership in media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> carried over from its 31% stake in predecessor Discovery, Inc.<ref name="Newhouse">Template:Cite news</ref> Advance also owns a 13% stake (as of 2016) in Charter Communications, which it received when Bright House Networks merged with Charter.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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