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| Private | |
| Industry | Mass media |
| Founded | 1922 |
| Founder | Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. |
| Headquarters | Staten Island, New York City, U.S. |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Steven Newhouse (Chairman) Thomas Summer (CFO) Donald Newhouse (President) |
| Products | Newspapers, News & Information Websites, Magazines, Television |
| Revenue |
 US$ 2.4 billion (2016) |
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Number of employees
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12,000 |
| Subsidiaries | Advance Local American City Business Journals Condé Nast |
| Website | www |
Advance Publications Inc. is an American media company owned by the descendants of S.I. Newhouse Sr., Donald Newhouse and S.I. Newhouse, Jr. It 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. The company is nominally headquartered in the Advance offices in Staten Island's Grasmere neighborhood, though Advance has never had an official headquarters.
As of October 2014, it was ranked as the 44th largest privately held company in the United States according to Forbes.Crain's ranked Advance Publications the 4th largest private company in the New York area in 2012. In addition to holding publishing and communication assets, Advance serves as the holding company for the family's 31% stake in cable entertainment company Discovery Communications. Advance also owns a 13% stake in Charter Communications, which it received when Bright House Networks merged with Charter.
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