Editor | Chris Andrews |
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Categories | Men's magazines |
Frequency | Weekly |
Circulation | 10,000 (approx) |
Publisher | OOHYEAH Publishing |
First issue | 2013 |
Final issue | 2015 |
Company | OOHYEAH |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Website | www.zipmagazine.co.uk |
Zip was British men's magazine published weekly by Blue Publishing for nine issues before being sold to OOHYEAH Publishing. It was launched on 1 March 2013 as a sister title to Loaded . [1] It relaunched in September 2013. [2] The original owners of Zip launched the title to take on rival titles Zoo and Nuts which were aimed at the same demographic, and had similar content. [3]
Loaded launched its weekly sister title, ZIP, after failed bids to acquire rival titles Nuts and Zoo. [4]
The website for Zip changed to zip-mag.com temporarily [5] and then became zip.am [6] The domain zip.am ceased to be used by the magazine some time in 2015, [7] the Facebook account no longer exists, [8] and the Twitter account is no longer updated. [5]
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