People Inc / Dotdash Meredith Vocabulary
Domain vocabulary covering the People Inc (formerly Dotdash Meredith) media publishing operation. Captures corporate-structure terms, brand categories, content surfaces, advertising products, and the AI-bot-policy regime that governs machine access to the brand portfolio.
12 Terms
2 With Aliases
Updated 2026-05-23
Dotdash Meredith / People Inc Vocabulary is a controlled vocabulary published by Dotdash Meredith / People Inc on the APIs.io network, defining 12 terms.
Defined terms include People Inc, Dotdash Meredith, Meredith Corporation, Dotdash, and IAC.
2 terms carry alternate labels, so a consumer can resolve the synonyms Dotdash Meredith / People Inc accepts to the canonical term.
A controlled vocabulary pins the words an API’s schemas, parameters and documentation use to one agreed definition each — the shared language a human or an agent needs to read the API the same way its authors do.
People Inc
Corporate name of America's largest digital and print publisher as of July 31, 2025. Subsidiary of IAC. Operates 40+ consumer brands.
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Dotdash Meredith
Prior corporate name (December 2021 to July 31, 2025) for the entity formed when IAC's Dotdash acquired Meredith Corporation's magazine and digital assets for $2.7 billion.
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Meredith Corporation
Founded by Edwin Thomas Meredith in 1902 as the publisher of Successful Farming. Acquired Time Inc in 2017 (~$1.85B). Sold its broadcast division to Gray Television and its magazine/digital assets to IAC's Dotdash on December 1, 2021.
Dotdash
Formerly About.com (founded 1997 as The Mining Company). Acquired by IAC in 2012 for $300M. Rebranded to Dotdash in 2017. Operator of the Verywell, The Spruce, Investopedia, Lifewire, and Treehugger brand stack pre-Meredith acquisition.
IAC
InterActiveCorp — NYSE-listed holding company headquartered in New York led by Joey Levin. Parent of People Inc, Angi, Care.com, Vimeo, and the Daily Beast. Spun off Match Group, Expedia, Ticketmaster, and multiple other companies over its history ("30 years, 10 public companies").
D/Cipher
People Inc's proprietary cookieless intent-based contextual advertising platform. Derives signals from how readers engage with content across the brand portfolio and matches them to advertiser intent without relying on third-party cookies. Sold as a B2B media buy.
Specialty Marketing Solutions
Bundle of B2B services within People Inc: Content Solutions (custom content marketing), Awards & Accolades (editorial-seal licensing), Targeted Media Health (point-of-care), Media Now Interactive (media planning/buying), and Content Licensing.
AI Bot Policy
The robots.txt-encoded policy applied uniformly across People Inc brand domains. Fully disallows ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, CCBot, news-please, cohere-ai, ImagesiftBot, FriendlyCrawler, Quora-Bot, omgilibot, omgili, PerplexityBot, and others. Partially restricts ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, and GPTBot (blocking the /thmb/ image path). Explicitly allows Pinterest and Pinterestbot.
Essential Brands
People Inc's term for its top-tier consumer brand portfolio; the brands surfaced on the brand-licensing and editorial-seal product surface.
Brand Licensing
Revenue line where People Inc grants third parties the right to use brand names, marks, and editorial accolades on retail products and marketing. People Inc is a top global licensor per License Global.
RSS Feed
The canonical machine-readable article surface on every People Inc consumer brand domain at /feed (RSS 2.0). The closest thing the company has to a developer API for content.
Sitemap Index
The XML sitemap index at /sitemap.xml on each brand domain referencing per-section sitemap files (/sitemap_1.xml … /sitemap_N.xml). Updated daily. The canonical machine-readable URL inventory.