Ziff Davis Media

Ziff Davis Media

(Ziff Davis Media Inc., New York, www.ziffdavis.com) A leading integrated media company that serves the computer, videogame and consumer lifestyle markets. Its offerings include PC Magazine and the PCMag.com Network, which includes PCMag.com, ExtremeTech.com and high-tech video episodes from DL.TV. Entrenched in the gaming world, the company publishes two magazines and five Web sites on the subject.

Dating back to the early 1980s, PC Magazine is the most successful computer publication in history with every hardware and software vendor coveting a PC Magazine Award for Technical Excellence. Ziff Davis Media also produces B2B and consumer technology events, research and market intelligence, laboratory-based product evaluations, round tables, workshops and conferences. Its Digital Life conference in New York draws 60,000 attendees.

In 1927, Ziff-Davis was founded in Chicago by William Ziff, Sr. and Bernard Davis. It evolved into a highly respected publishing empire that was sold to Forstmann Little & Co. in 1994. Within a year, it was acquired by Softbank. Ziff Davis Media was formed in 2000 when Willis Stein & Partners acquired it from Softbank, which sold its Ziff-Davis properties to several companies. See ZDNet and Ziff Davis Enterprise.