Laguna Beach

What Laguna Beach does

Laguna Beach Magazine is a monthly lifestyle publication covering arts, wellness, community, fashion, travel, dining, home and design, and local culture in Laguna Beach, California. Founded in 2006, it operates in both print and interactive digital formats, with the digital edition delivered through a partnership with the PageSuite platform and primary web presence on the lagunabeachindy.com domain. The publication serves local residents, visitors, and community members in the Orange County region of Southern California, organized around a horizontal general-audience positioning rather than a specific vertical.

Laguna Beach Magazine is one title within a regional publication portfolio owned and operated by Times Media Group, a diversified media conglomerate. Sister publications in the same network include the Laguna Beach Independent (the primary local newspaper), Coastal Real Estate Guide, Newport Beach Independent, Newport Beach Magazine, and Latitude 33. The publication is headquartered at 900 Glenneyre Street Suite B, Laguna Beach, CA, under Firebrand Media Inc., with content categories spanning wellness, community, arts, fashion, home and design, travel, eat and drink (including a restaurant directory), and people and places.

The business model centers on a free consumer subscription offering, with distribution through the owned website, the PageSuite-powered digital edition, email newsletter, and organic social media channels (Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, LinkedIn, Vimeo). Source data does not disclose specific revenue mechanics, pricing, advertising rate cards, or customer/advertiser concentration. The company is privately held with no venture funding rounds, M&A activity, management team disclosures, or AI/technology capabilities reported in the available data.

Name

Laguna Beach

Legal name

Laguna Beach Magazine

Website

https://lagunabeachmagazine.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Laguna Beach Magazine is a monthly lifestyle magazine founded in 2006 covering arts, dining, wellness, fashion, travel, and community culture in Laguna Beach, California. It operates in print and digital formats under Times Media Group, serving local Orange County residents and visitors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Regional Lifestyle Magazine Publishing

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (51312), Periodical Publishers (513120), Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers (5131)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Travel & Outdoors Magazines (MPAJAEAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Arts, Culture & Literary Magazines (MPAJAEAN), Food, Cooking & Beverage Magazines (MPAJAEAF), Health, Fitness & Wellness Magazines (MPAJAEAD)

Keywords

• Local journalism
• Lifestyle magazine
• Community news
• Regional publishing
• Arts and culture

Headquarters

HQ city

Laguna Beach

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Laguna Beach Magazine is a monthly regional lifestyle magazine that publishes editorial coverage of arts, wellness, community events, fashion, home and design, travel, and dining for the Laguna Beach, California community. The publication is available in print and via an interactive Digital Edition on the PageSuite platform, and operates alongside the Laguna Beach Independent newspaper within the Times Media Group network of Southern California publications.

Product overview

Laguna Beach Magazine is a single lifestyle publication focused on local arts, culture, wellness, community, fashion, travel, dining, and home design content for the Laguna Beach, California community. The publication operates as a unified magazine product available in both print and digital formats, with sister publications including the Laguna Beach Independent, Newport Beach Independent, Newport Beach Magazine, and Latitude 33.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Laguna Beach Magazine A monthly regional lifestyle magazine covering arts, wellness, community, fashion, travel, dining, home and design, and local culture in Laguna Beach, California; available in print and digital editions for residents, visitors, and local advertisers.
• Laguna Beach Magazine Digital Edition An interactive online digital edition of Laguna Beach Magazine delivered through the PageSuite platform, allowing readers to access current and back issues in a digital format.
• Laguna Beach Independent An affiliated independent local newspaper covering news and events in Laguna Beach, distributed alongside Laguna Beach Magazine within the same regional media network.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Coastal Real Estate GuideminorOthersRelated publication within the same media network, covering coastal real estate content.
• Laguna Beach IndependentminorOthersSister publication under the same ownership, serving as the primary newspaper for Laguna Beach.
• Newport Beach IndependentminorOthersRelated publication serving Newport Beach community within the same media group.
• Newport Beach MagazineminorOthersMagazine publication within the same media network serving Newport Beach.
• Latitude 33minorOthersRelated regional magazine publication within the media network.
• PageSuitecoreTechnology or IntegrationDigital edition platform provider enabling interactive digital magazine publishing and distribution.

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Latitude 33 Magazine: A regional lifestyle magazine in the same Times Media Group network covering Southern California coastal communities. Comparable in content mix (dining, arts, travel, lifestyle) and Southern California coastal positioning.
• Coastal Real Estate Guide: Sister publication under Times Media Group covering coastal real estate content in the same Orange County footprint. Directly comparable distribution network and advertiser overlap (real estate), but specialized in property listings rather than general lifestyle.
• Laguna Beach Independent: Sister newspaper covering the same Laguna Beach market under the same Times Media Group parent. Same local audience and ad pool, but distributed as a news publication rather than a monthly lifestyle magazine, making it a directly comparable local-news peer.
• Orange Coast Magazine: Long-running regional lifestyle magazine covering Orange County, the same broader metropolitan area as Laguna Beach Magazine. Comparable in editorial categories (dining, arts, fashion, travel) and local advertiser base, though broader in geographic scope.
• Malibu Magazine: Regional lifestyle magazine serving Malibu and surrounding affluent coastal Southern California communities. Highly comparable business model (monthly print + digital, free distribution, lifestyle verticals) and demographic target.
• Newport Beach Magazine: A sister publication under Times Media Group covering the adjacent coastal Orange County community of Newport Beach. Most directly comparable in format, ownership, business model, and audience profile (affluent coastal Southern California residents).
• Palm Springs Life: Regional lifestyle magazine serving the affluent Palm Springs / Coachella Valley resort market in California. Closely comparable structure: monthly print + digital, lifestyle verticals, luxury and resort advertiser base, and reliance on wealthy second-home and tourism audiences.

Broad incumbents

• Coastal Living: National lifestyle magazine (Time Inc./Dotdash Meredith legacy brand) focused on coastal living, design, travel, and food. Covers the same thematic verticals (coastal travel, dining, home design) as Laguna Beach Magazine but operates at national scale rather than a single micro-market.
• Sunset Magazine: Iconic Western U.S. lifestyle magazine covering travel, food, home, and garden across the broader West Coast. Comparable in lifestyle vertical coverage and California-centric audience, though it serves a much larger geography.
• Los Angeles Magazine: Major Southern California city/regional magazine covering dining, arts, culture, fashion, and travel across the LA metro area. Overlaps with Laguna Beach Magazine's content categories and Southern California advertiser pool at a much broader geographic scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/lagunabeachmag
• YouTubevimeo.com/user213011425
• Facebookfacebook.com/LagunaBeachMagazine
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/showcase/laguna-beach-magazine
• Instagraminstagram.com/lagunabeachmagazine

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Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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