YM (magazine)

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YM was an American teen magazine. It was published for 72 years and was the second-oldest girls' magazine (the oldest being Seventeen) in the United States. YM got its start as two magazines in the 1930s—Compact, which was aimed at older teens, and Calling All Girls, which was intended for younger girls and pioneered the signature embarrassing-moments column, "Say Anything". By the late '40s, the publications merged into Young Miss, a small digest-sized mag. In the 1960s the size was increased and the 1980s saw still another title was change (this time to Young & Modern) under Bonnie Fuller's direction as editor-in-chief. The final title change came in 2000 (this time to Your Magazine), though the abbreviation "YM" was the title by which it was commonly referred. It ceased publication in 2004, with the December/January issue featuring Usher. Subscribers received Teen Vogue subscriptions in replacement.

YM is now published online only with a subscription link to Teen Vogue.

The publisher was Gruner + Jahr before the assets of YM were purchased by Conde Nast Publications. This purchase included YM's:

subscription file
title and brand name
rights to special publication titles
domain name (http://www.ym.com)
newsstand pockets

Three teen magazines have now folded under Christina Kelly as editor-in-chief: first Sassy Magazine, then YM, and most recently Elle Girl, which only lasted five issues under Kelly.