Condé Nast

2000–2009

At the outset of the new millennium in January 2000, Condé Nast moved from 350 Madison Avenue to 4 Times Square.[16] The move was viewed as a significant catalyst for the redevelopment of Times Square.[17] In the same year, Condé Nast purchased Fairchild Publications[18] (now known as Fairchild Fashion Media), home to W and WWD, from the Walt Disney Company. In 2001, Condé Nast bought Golf Digest and Golf World from The New York Times Company for US$435 million.[19] On October 31, 2006, Condé Nast acquired the content aggregation site Reddit,[20] later on spun off as a wholly owned subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company in September 2011. The company folded the women's magazine Jane with its August issue in 2007, and later shut down its website.[21] One of Condé Nast's oldest titles, the American edition of House and Garden, ceased publication after the December 2007 issue.[22] Portfolio, Mademoiselle and Domino were folded as well. On May 20, 2008, the company announced its acquisition of a popular technology-oriented website, Ars Technica.

On October 5, 2009, Condé Nast announced the closure of three of its publications: Cookie, Modern Bride, and Elegant Bride.[23] Gourmet ceased monthly publication with its November 2009 issue; the Gourmet brand was later resurrected as "Gourmet Live", an iPad app that delivers new editorial content in the form of recipes, interviews, stories, and videos. In print, Gourmet continues in the form of special editions on newsstands and cookbooks. That same year, Condé Nast announced the launch of Love magazine, a bi-annual British style magazine founded by fashion journalist Katie Grand. In 2020, Grand announced her departure and was replaced by Whembley Sewell.[24]

2010–present

In July 2010, Robert Sauerberg became Condé Nast's president. In May 2011, the company was the first major publisher to deliver subscriptions for the iPad, starting with The New Yorker; the company has since rolled out iPad subscriptions for nine of its titles. In the same month, Next Issue Media, a joint venture formed by five U.S. publishers including Condé Nast, announced subscriptions for Android devices, initially available for the Samsung Galaxy Tab.[25]

In September 2011, Condé Nast said it would offer 17 of its brands to the Kindle Fire.[26] The company launched Conde Nast Entertainment in 2011 to develop movies, television series, and digital video programming. In May 2013, CNÉ's Digital Video Network debuted, featuring web series for such publications as Glamour and GQ.[27] Wired joined the Digital Video Network with the announcement of five original web series including the National Security Agency satire Codefellas and the animated advice series Mister Know-It-All.[28][29]

In October 2013, the company ended its internship program after being sued by two former interns claiming they had been paid less than minimum wage for summer internships there.[30][31] In November 2014, the company moved into One World Trade Center in Manhattan, where its headquarters are now located.[32] On September 14, 2015, the company announced Sauerberg as its new CEO, with former CEO Charles H. Townsend taking the role of Chairman, and S.I. Newhouse Jr. taking the role of Chairman Emeritus in January 2016.[33] On October 13, 2015, Condé Nast announced that it had acquired Pitchfork.[34]

In July 2016, the company announced the launch of Condé Nast Spire, a new division of the company focusing on consumer purchasing data and content consumption through the company's own first-party behavioral data.[35] The chairman of the company, Charles Townsend, retired at the end of 2016,[36] and the Chairman Emeritus Newhouse died the following October.[37]

In March 2018, Condé Nast announced the launch of the influencer-based platform Next Gen.[38] The company's chief revenue and marketing officer, Pamela Drucker Mann, stated that the platform would feature both "in-house and external talent with significant and meaningful social followings". In April 2019, Condé Nast appointed the former CEO of Pandora Media, Roger Lynch, as the company's first global CEO. It also sold the magazine Brides to the digital media company Dotdash, and in May of the same year, announced the sale of Golf Digest to Discovery, Inc.[39] In June of the same year, Condé Nast sold W to a new holding company, Future Media Group.[40] W editor Stefano Tonchi later sued the company for wrongful termination, with Condé Nast suing Tonchi in response, seeking the return of "all monies paid to [Tonchi] during his period of disloyalty," claiming that he had acted as a "faithless servant" during the sale of W, and had interfered with the sale to benefit himself.[41]

Roger Lynch was appointed CEO in April 2019, and in October 2019, announced plans to increase Condé Nast's revenue from readers.[42][43]

In June 2020, following the global outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19, it was reported that Condé Nast had experienced a drop in advertising revenues of 45% as a result of the pandemic. It was also reported that the company had, in previous years, sublet six of the company's 23 floors in the One World Trade Center, following the cancellation of a number of its publishing titles.[44]

In November 2023, Condé Nast announced it would be cutting about 5 percent of its workforce which would impact approximately 270 employees. Some of the reasons given for this were pressures from digital advertising, decreasing social media traffic, and shifting audience preferences towards short-form video content on platforms like TikTok and YouTube Shorts.[45]

In January 2024, union members from the company's publications set a strike for 24 hours aligned with the announcement of 96th Academy Awards nominees claiming that the company was "engaging in regressive bargaining and breaking the law in bargaining by rescinding an offer that they had previously made around layoffs".[46] Anne Hathaway walked out of a Vanity Fair photo shoot the same day, January 23, in solidarity with the union.[47]

In December 2024, Condé Nast announced additional layoffs specifically targeting top executives at the company.[48]

In October 2025, the company announced that it would no longer feature new animal fur in its editorial content or advertising. The decision followed a nine-month campaign against Condé Nast and its business partners by the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade[49] and years of protests by PETA.

In November 2025, the NewsGuild of New York filed an unfair labor practice charge against Condé Nast with the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of Condé United, the union that represents most Condé Nast employees, accusing the company of wrongfully terminating four employees who were engaging in "protected concerted activity" when they confronted the company's head of human resources over layoffs at Teen Vogue.[50]

Digital assets

• Allure
• Ars Technica
• Backchannel
• Epicurious
• Glamour
• Pitchfork
• Teen Vogue
• La Cucina Italiana

Printed magazines

• Architectural Digest
• Bon Appétit
• Condé Nast Traveler
• GQ
• The New Yorker
• Vanity Fair
• Vogue
• Wired

Acquisitions

Stakes