''Zip'' was a weekly men's magazine published in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 1 March 2013 as a sister title to ''
Loaded'' and was published by Blue Publishing for nine issues before being sold to OOHYEAH Publishing.
It relaunched in September 2013. The original owners of ''Zip'' launched the title to take on rival titles ''
Zoo
A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for Conservation biology, conservation purposes.
The term ''zoological g ...
'' and ''
Nuts'' which were aimed at the same demographic, and had similar content.
Loaded
''
Loaded'' launched its weekly sister title, ''ZIP'', after failed bids to acquire rival titles ''Nuts'' and ''Zoo''.
Closure
The website for ''Zip'' changed to zip-mag.com temporarily
and then became zip.am The domain zip.am ceased to be used by the magazine some time in 2015, the
Facebook
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account no longer exists,
and the
Twitter
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account is no longer updated.
See also
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Lad culture
Lad culture (also the new lad, laddism) was a media-driven, principally British and Irish subculture of the 1990s and early 2000s. The image of the "lad"—or "new lad"—was that of a generally middle class figure espousing attitudes typically att ...
References
External links
Official website(archive)
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oohyeah.com - Publisher (archive)
2013 establishments in the United Kingdom
Men's magazines published in the United Kingdom
Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 2013
Magazines disestablished in 2015
Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom
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