Dotdash Meredith / People Inc
Profile for People Inc (formerly Dotdash Meredith) in the API Evangelist network. America's largest digital and print publisher, operating 40+ brands including PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Allrecipes, Investopedia, Verywell, Food & Wine, Southern Living, Real Simple, Travel + Leisure, Byrdie, InStyle, The Spruce, EatingWell, Serious Eats, Simply Recipes, Brides, Health, Shape, Parents, Entertainment Weekly, Lifewire, TreeHugger, TripSavvy, The Balance, and more. An IAC (NASDAQ: IAC) operating company since the December 2021 merger of Dotdash and Meredith Corporation ($2.7B transaction); rebranded to "People Inc." on July 31, 2025 to elevate the company's flagship brand. There is no public read/write developer API surface — the addressable machine-readable surface is per-brand RSS feeds, XML sitemaps, robots.txt policy declarations, and the D/Cipher intent-based contextual advertising platform sold as a B2B media buy (no self-serve developer console). All major brand domains explicitly disallow ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, GPTBot (partial), CCBot, PerplexityBot, and other AI crawlers in robots.txt, reflecting the company's stance on unlicensed model training against its content corpus.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Dotdash Meredith / People Inc the way a machine reads it — 44 machine-readable artifacts across 30 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Dotdash Meredith / People Inc scores 46.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Dotdash Meredith / People Inc
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Dotdash Meredith / People Inc. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 30
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
PEOPLE RSS Feeds
RSS 2.0 feeds for People.com, the flagship celebrity-and-human-interest brand of People Inc. People.com is the largest property in the portfolio (~187M monthly visits per 2025 e...
Better Homes & Gardens RSS Feeds
RSS 2.0 feeds for BHG.com, People Inc's flagship home + gardening brand and the second-largest US monthly magazine by circulation.
Allrecipes RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Allrecipes.com, the largest food brand in the portfolio and one of the most-trafficked recipe sites globally.
Investopedia RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Investopedia.com, the dominant retail-investor finance reference site in the portfolio. Carries dictionary-style term entries and breaking finance/markets articles.
Verywell Family RSS Feeds
RSS feeds across the Verywell sub-brands (Verywell Health, Verywell Mind, Verywell Fit). Largest consumer-health network in the US per Comscore.
Food & Wine RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Food & Wine, the culinary lifestyle brand.
Real Simple RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Real Simple, a Home + Lifestyle brand.
Southern Living RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Southern Living, a regional lifestyle brand.
Travel + Leisure RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Travel + Leisure, the brand that also seeds the publicly-traded Wyndham Destinations spin-off.
Byrdie RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Byrdie, the People Inc beauty brand.
InStyle RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for InStyle, fashion and beauty brand.
Brides RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Brides, the wedding planning brand.
EatingWell RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for EatingWell, the healthy-eating food brand.
Serious Eats RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Serious Eats, the technique-driven food brand.
Simply Recipes RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Simply Recipes.
The Spruce RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for The Spruce, The Spruce Eats, and The Spruce Pets.
Health RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Health, the wellness magazine brand.
Shape RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Shape, the fitness and women's wellness brand.
Parents RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Parents, the family + parenting brand.
Entertainment Weekly RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Entertainment Weekly.
Lifewire RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Lifewire, the consumer-tech how-to brand.
Treehugger RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Treehugger, the sustainability and environment brand.
TripSavvy RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for TripSavvy, the travel guides brand.
The Balance RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for The Balance Money, personal finance brand.
Daily Paws RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Daily Paws, the pets brand.
Martha Stewart RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for MarthaStewart.com, the home/lifestyle brand.
Liquor.com RSS Feeds
RSS feeds for Liquor.com, the spirits and cocktail brand.
XML Sitemaps Across Properties
Every People Inc brand exposes a discoverable sitemap index at /sitemap.xml with per-section sitemap files. These are the canonical machine-readable index of all published URLs ...
D/Cipher Contextual Advertising Platform
D/Cipher is People Inc's proprietary intent-based contextual advertising platform — a cookieless targeting solution that derives audience-intent signals from how readers engage ...
Specialty Marketing Solutions (SMS) Suite
A bundle of B2B services run by People Inc with no public developer surface but with discrete branded sub-products: Content Solutions (content marketing consultancy), Awards & A...
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Meredith Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Meredith Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Meredith Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
JSON Schema 3
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
JSON Structure 1
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Brand Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 3
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
People Rss Feed Example
EXAMPLESecurity Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Dotdash Meredith / People Inc — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 7
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
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Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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