VMG was founded in September 2012, when Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan and Jeff Mars announced an agreement to purchase Village Voice Media's papers and web properties from their founders.
VDS works with VMG publications and partners around the country to offer digital marketing solutions[buzzword] including organic SEO, social media management, paid media, web development and programmatic and pay-per-click advertising.
While adding resources to VDS, Voice Media Group has made strategic divestments of some its newspaper properties.
On May 6, 2015, VMG announced the sale of Minneapolis City Pages to Star Tribune Media Co.[5] In October 2015, VMG sold the Village Voice[6] in New York City to Pennsylvania newspaper owner Peter Barbey.
In October 2017, VMG sold LA Weekly[7] to local owners; the next month, following devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, it announced that the Houston Press would cease print publication[8] and transition to an online-only entity.