People Inc.
American digital media company
People Inc. (formerly The Mining Company, About.com, Dotdash, and Dotdash Meredith) is an American digital media company based in New York City. Owned by People Incorporated, it publishes online articles and videos on subjects including health, home, food, finance, technology, beauty, lifestyle, travel, and education.
Overview
The company operates 40 brands, including its flagship title, People, as well as Life, Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure, Better Homes and Gardens, Verywell, Allrecipes, Real Simple, Investopedia, Southern Living, Byrdie, Serious Eats, The Spruce, EatingWell, Health, Parents, InStyle, Simply Recipes, Entertainment Weekly, and Martha Stewart Living.
In August 2012, About.com became a property of IAC, which also owned Ask.com and numerous other online brands. The company's revenue is generated through advertising. As Dotdash Meredith, the company was headquartered in New York City and maintained additional offices in the New York metropolitan area, Des Moines, Iowa, and Birmingham, Alabama.
The Dotdash Meredith name was adopted in 2021 after IAC acquired Meredith Corporation, which had previously acquired and absorbed Time Inc. Time Inc. had merged with Warner Communications in 1990 to form Time Warner, but it was spun off as a publicly traded company in 2014.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “People Inc.” is american digital media company. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through People, American and digital, not as a finished interpretation.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q124250582. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012, 2021, 1990 and 2014.
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