People Inc., also known as The Mining Company, About.com, Dotdash, and Dotdash Meredith, is a privately owned American digital media company based in New York City, US, and is a property of IAC. Founded in 1997, it employs approximately 1,860 individuals. The company specializes in internet publishing, producing online articles and videos across categories including health, home, food, finance, tech, beauty, lifestyle, travel, and education. It 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. Its revenue is primarily generated by advertising. In addition to its Manhattan headquarters, People Inc. maintains offices elsewhere in the New York metropolitan area, as well as in Des Moines, Iowa, and Birmingham, Alabama. The company adopted the Dotdash Meredith name in 2021 following IAC's acquisition of Meredith Corporation and Time Inc.
