Among its titles are PC Gamer, SFX, TechRadar, Country Life, Homes and Gardens, Kiplinger Personal Finance, Decanter, Marie Claire, and The Week.

The company was founded by Chris Anderson as Future Publishing in Somerton, Somerset, England, with the sole magazine Amstrad Action in 1985.

[5] In 2004 the company was accused of corruption when it published positive reviews for the video game Driver 3 in two of its owned magazines, Xbox World and PSM2.

[9] Future announced it would cut 55 jobs from its UK operation as part of a restructuring to adapt "more effectively to the company's rapid transition to a primarily digital business model.

[12] In April 2014 Zillah Byng-Thorne, then finance director, was appointed chief executive, replacing Mark Wood, who had been in the position since 2011.

[13] This acquisition returned most of the U.S. consumer music magazines to Future, with the exception of Revolver which had been sold to Project Group M LLC in 2017.

[22] In April 2020 it acquired TI Media, with 41 brands for £140 million,[23] and, in November 2020, it agreed a £594m takeover of GoCo plc, known for its Gocompare.com price comparison website.