Condé Nast projected 22% growth in events revenue for 2026 after the business expanded 40% in 2025. The publisher, which owns Vogue, GQ and The New Yorker, said overall revenue was up year-over-year.

The company is leaning into cultural tentpole events to offset pressure on its traditional advertising business. Chief Revenue Officer Elizabeth Herbst-Brady described the events strategy as part of a broader shift the company began the prior year. "We started this journey last year, and we wanted to bring more focus to our events because they have become a differentiator for us, both as an experience and a moment where we can create content to exist across every canvas," Herbst-Brady said.

The events business has become a growing component of revenue at the company alongside its print, digital and social media properties. The projected 2026 expansion would follow a year in which events revenue grew at nearly twice that rate.

Condé Nast did not disclose the dollar value of its events revenue or the specific contribution of events to total company revenue. The company also did not detail which individual properties contributed most to the 2025 growth figure or which are expected to drive the 2026 projection.

The 22% growth target for 2026 represents a deceleration from the 40% rate recorded in 2025. Herbst-Brady framed the events programming as a vehicle for generating content that can be distributed across the publisher's various platforms, linking the live business to the broader media operation.