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Company type | Private |
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Summit Media | |
Industry | Publishing |
Founded | June 1995 in Mandaluyong, Philippines |
Founder | Lisa Gokongwei |
Headquarters | |
Area served | Philippines |
Key people | Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng (President) Edna Tancongco-Belleza (Publisher) |
Products | magazines, books, websites |
Divisions | Summit Digital, Summit OOH, Summit Live!, Summit Books, Hand.Interactive, Inc. |
Website | summitmedia.com.ph |
Summit Publishing Co., Inc., doing business as Summit Media, is a digital lifestyle network and former magazine publishing company in the Philippines. It has 12 media brands attracting around 33 million monthly unique visitors and approximately 35 million social media followers. [1] It began as a consumer magazine publisher in June 1995, with Preview as its first magazine title. [2] It turned into a publication conglomerate which published several lifestyle magazines titles, including Candy for young Filipino girls and Yes!, a Philippine entertainment magazine.
The results of the 2014 TNS Newsstand Survey showed that Summit Media had popularity in 12 categories: young women (Cosmopolitan Philippines - 60%), fashion (Preview - 38%), celebrity (YES! - 55%), men's luxury (Esquire Philippines - 93%), men's lifestyle (FHM Philippines - 71%), home (Real Living Philippines - 42%), family and home (Good Housekeeping Philippines - 47%), teens (Candy - 63%), parenting (Smart Parenting - 34%), automotive (Top Gear Philippines - 69%), society (Town & Country Philippines - 31%), and food (Yummy - 51%). The company also had the largest score in the local book publishing measurement with seven out of 10 books sold. [3]
Its different magazine titles are printed to copies that run over 100,000. It has been cited in Philippine Business magazine [4] and Eventsite. [5]
On April 11, 2018, Summit Media announced the impending closure of the last six printed magazines namely, Cosmopolitan, FHM, Preview, Top Gear, Town and Country (all relegated to their online portals) and Yes! (relegated to Philippine Entertainment Portal), as part of the fully completed digitalization of the company, marking the end of the 23-year run of printing industry. [6]
Some of the magazine titles are ceased in publication, here are the following:
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