meredith

API Evangelist Network profile for People Inc (formerly Dotdash Meredith) — America's largest digital and print publisher and an IAC operating company.

• Corporate site: https://www.people.inc/
• Parent: IAC (NASDAQ: IAC) — https://www.iac.com/brands/peopleinc
• Formed: December 1, 2021 (Dotdash + Meredith Corporation, $2.7B transaction)
• Rebranded: July 31, 2025 (Dotdash Meredith → People Inc)
• Scale (per IAC): "More than 175 million people trust us each month to help them find inspiration, make decisions, and take action."
• Brand count: 40+ brands across Health, Finance, Food & Drink, Home, Beauty & Style, Travel, Tech & Sustainability, Entertainment, Premium Publishing.

What this repo profiles

People Inc does not publish a public read/write developer API. The machine-readable surface that exists is:

Surface	Endpoint pattern	Notes
RSS 2.0 feeds	https://{brand}/feed	Available on every consumer brand. The de-facto content API.
XML Sitemaps	https://{brand}/sitemap.xml	Sitemap index + per-section files; updated daily.
robots.txt policy	https://{brand}/robots.txt	Identical AI-bot policy template across brands.
D/Cipher (B2B)	https://www.people.inc/dcipher	Cookieless intent-based contextual ad platform; sold via direct sales, no public API.

Artifacts in this repo

• apis.yml — full inventory of brand RSS surfaces + corporate properties
• json-schema/ — RSS feed, sitemap, and robots-policy schemas
• json-structure/ — People Inc brand entity structure
• json-ld/ — Linked-data context aligning People Inc concepts with schema.org
• examples/ — Example payloads (RSS feed, sitemap index, robots policy)
• vocabulary/ — Domain vocabulary covering the publisher, brands, products
• capabilities/ — Naftiko-style capability definitions (shared + workflows)
• rules/ — Spectral rules for the RSS schema artifacts
• plans/ — Commercial surfaces (advertising, licensing, subscriptions)
• rate-limits/ — Edge rate-shaping + the codified AI-bot policy
• finops/ — FinOps view of People Inc as a vendor

AI bot policy (important)

Every People Inc brand domain ships an identical robots.txt template that fully disallows ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, CCBot, news-please, cohere-ai, ImagesiftBot, FriendlyCrawler, Quora-Bot, omgilibot, omgili, and PerplexityBot, and partially restricts ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, and GPTBot (blocking the /thmb/ image-transform subtree). Pinterest and Pinterestbot are explicitly allowed.

This is the canonical statement of how People Inc treats AI ingestion. Any agent reading People Inc content must honor it.

Brand portfolio (sampled)

• Entertainment: PEOPLE, PEOPLE en Español, Entertainment Weekly
• Home: Better Homes & Gardens, Real Simple, Southern Living, The Spruce, Martha Stewart, Magnolia, Midwest Living
• Food & Drink: Allrecipes, Food & Wine, EatingWell, Serious Eats, Simply Recipes, The Spruce Eats, Liquor.com
• Health: Verywell Health, Verywell Mind, Verywell Fit, Health, Parents
• Finance: Investopedia, The Balance
• Beauty & Style: Byrdie, Brides, InStyle, Shape
• Travel: Travel + Leisure, TripSavvy
• Tech & Sustainability: Lifewire, Treehugger
• Pets: Daily Paws, The Spruce Pets
• Premium Publishing: Cooking Light, Coastal Living, Traditional Home, LIFE

Offices

• New York — 225 Liberty St, 4th Fl, New York, NY 10281 (HQ; (212) 204-4000)
• Des Moines — 1716 Locust St, Des Moines, IA 50309 (legacy Meredith HQ)
• Birmingham — 4100 Old Montgomery Hwy, Birmingham, AL 35209 (Southern Progress legacy)

Sources

• IAC brand page: https://www.iac.com/brands/peopleinc
• People Inc corporate site (via Wayback): https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://www.people.inc/
• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Inc.
• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Corporation