Imagine Media
Former Future US headquarters in South San Francisco, when it was still a relevant player in print and online media.
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Formerly called
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Imagine Media, Inc. (1995-2002) Future Network USA (2002-2005) |
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| Industry | Magazine and digital publishing |
| Founded | 1990 |
| Founder | Chris Anderson |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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Area served
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United Kingdom United States Australia |
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Key people
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Chris Anderson |
| Parent | Future plc |
| Website | www |
Future US, Inc. (formerly known as Imagine Media and The Future Network USA) is an American media corporation specializing in targeted magazines and websites in the video games, music, and technology markets. Future US is headquartered in the San Francisco with a small sales office in New York City. Future US is owned by parent company, Future plc, a small publishing company based in the United Kingdom.
Its magazines and websites include:
Founded in 1985 in the UK by Chris Anderson (not to be confused with Chris Anderson, Wired's Editor-in-Chief and author of The Long Tail) Future Publishing was the fastest growing UK publisher of the nineties. From a start in computer and video games magazines, Future successfully diversified into sports, entertainment, computing and general interest magazines eventually becoming the UK's fourth largest publisher.
Anderson wanted to expand Future into the United States, and bought struggling Greensboro (N.C.) video game magazine publisher GP Publications, publisher of Game Players magazine in 1993. The company launched a number of titles including PC Gamer, and relocated from North Carolina to the Bay area, occupying various properties in Burlingame and South San Francisco. When Anderson sold Future to Pearson PLC he retained GP, renamed Imagine Media, Inc. in June 1995, and operated it as his sole company for a few years. However, when Future bought itself out from Pearson in an MBO, Anderson came back on board, and when Future floated on the stock exchange in 1999 Imagine's print magazines were merged with Future Publishing to form the Future Network PLC, a company floated on the (symbol FUTR). The on-line properties, including IGN, were put into a separate company snowball.com.
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