generated: '2026-08-12' method: searched source: https://www.people.inc/advertising and the HTTP 402 licensing response observed across the estate plan_count: 8 self_serve_plan_count: 0 name: People Inc / Dotdash Meredith Commercial Plans description: | People Inc has no public developer-API plan surface. Its commercial offering is structured around B2B advertising, brand licensing, consumer magazine subscriptions, and direct content licensing — all transacted via direct sales, not self-serve. This file captures the addressable commercial surfaces using the API Commons Plans 0.1 shape, with the explicit caveat that pricing is RFQ / per-engagement and not published. url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/plans/meredith-plans-pricing.yml created: '2026-05-23' modified: '2026-05-23' specificationVersion: 'plans-0.1' providerId: meredith providerName: People Inc plans: - id: dcipher-contextual-advertising name: D/Cipher Contextual Advertising surface: B2B Media Buy selfServe: false pricingModel: rfq pricing: type: Custom currency: USD notes: | Sold via direct sales. Typical engagements are six- and seven-figure annual brand-campaign commitments. No CPM rate card is publicly listed; performance is reported against benchmark norms (per People Inc's advertising page: "Lucid Industry Norm; 146 Campaigns 2023-2025 (weighted by impressions)"). contact: advertising@peopleinc.com portal: https://www.people.inc/dcipher - id: branded-content-and-experiences name: Branded Content + Experiences surface: B2B Sponsorship selfServe: false pricingModel: rfq pricing: type: Custom currency: USD notes: | Marquee experiential franchises include PEOPLE's Red Carpet Access, the FOOD & WINE Classic (Aspen + Charleston), Travel + Leisure World's Best Summit, Entertainment Weekly's Comic-Con Bash, the Southern Living Idea House, the REAL SIMPLE Home, Byrdie Social Club, BHG Red Plaid Café, and InStyle Imagemaker Awards. contact: advertising@peopleinc.com portal: https://www.people.inc/advertising - id: awards-and-accolades-licensing name: Editorial Award Seal Licensing surface: Brand Licensing selfServe: false pricingModel: rfq pricing: type: Custom currency: USD notes: | Awards & Accolades team licenses editorial-award seals and mentions from People Inc's essential brands for on-package, retail, and marketing use. contact: licensing@peopleinc.com portal: https://www.people.inc/advertising - id: brand-licensing name: Brand Licensing surface: Brand Licensing selfServe: false pricingModel: rfq pricing: type: Royalty currency: USD notes: | Wholesale brand licensing for retail goods bearing People Inc brand names. Per License Global's Top Licensors Report 2024, People Inc is a top global licensor. contact: licensing@peopleinc.com - id: content-licensing name: Editorial Content Licensing surface: Content Syndication selfServe: false pricingModel: rfq pricing: type: Custom currency: USD notes: | Syndication and reuse rights for People Inc editorial content sold on a per-engagement basis. Notably contrasts with the company's robots.txt policy against unlicensed AI ingestion — paid licensing is the sanctioned ingestion path. contact: licensing@peopleinc.com - id: targeted-media-health name: Targeted Media Health (Point-of-Care) surface: Healthcare Marketing selfServe: false pricingModel: rfq pricing: type: Custom currency: USD notes: | Point-of-care media and HCP marketing across digital and print channels via People Inc's health brand portfolio. contact: advertising@peopleinc.com - id: media-now-interactive name: Media Now Interactive surface: Media Planning + Buying selfServe: false pricingModel: managed-service pricing: type: Custom currency: USD notes: | Full-service media planning and buying agency operating inside People Inc. contact: advertising@peopleinc.com - id: consumer-magazine-subscriptions name: Consumer Magazine Subscriptions surface: Direct-To-Consumer selfServe: true pricingModel: per-title pricing: type: Subscription currency: USD notes: | Per-title print + digital subscriptions sold via each brand's subscription page (PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Real Simple, Southern Living, InStyle, EatingWell, Food & Wine, Allrecipes, Entertainment Weekly, Parents, Travel + Leisure, etc.). Per Wikipedia (2025 figures): "People has approximately 2.2 million paid subscribers across print and digital editions, making it one of the largest magazine audiences in the United States." contact: subscriptions@peopleinc.com absences: - notFound: Self-Serve Developer API Plans rationale: | People Inc does not sell metered API access to its content. There is no developer portal, no API key issuance flow, no published rate card. - notFound: Marketplace / App Store rationale: | No partner marketplace, no third-party app gallery, no integration hub. - notFound: Free Developer Tier rationale: | No free tier exists. All commercial surfaces are RFQ. # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Added 2026-08-12 by the enrichment pipeline. Observed on the wire, not read # off a pricing page: the estate now answers declared AI crawlers with an # HTTP 402 Payment Required that names its own commercial remedy. That makes # content licensing the ONE People Inc commercial surface with a # machine-readable entry point, even though the price itself is still RFQ. # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- machineReadablePricingSignal: present: true mechanism: HTTP 402 Payment Required at the CDN edge observedOn: - url: https://www.people.inc/news-awards status: 402 - url: https://people.com/ status: 402 - url: https://www.allrecipes.com/ status: 402 - url: https://www.investopedia.com/ status: 402 triggerUserAgent: ClaudeBot/1.0 (+https://www.anthropic.com/claude-bot) body: | Payment Required - If you wish to license content from People Inc, please contact contentlicensing@people.inc priceDisclosed: false note: | A named counterparty and a status code an agent can branch on, but no rate card, no per-token or per-crawl price, and no self-serve checkout. The signal says "this is purchasable"; it does not say what it costs. crossRef: agentic-access/meredith-agentic-access.yml additionalPlans: - id: ai-content-licensing name: AI / Model Content Licensing surface: Direct Licensing selfServe: false pricingModel: rfq pricing: type: Custom currency: USD notes: | Not published. People Inc has disclosed AI content-licensing arrangements publicly (its OpenAI partnership is the one reported in the trade press and is visible in robots.txt, where the OpenAI crawlers alone are exempted from the blanket AI denylist and are restricted only from /thmb/). Terms and consideration are not disclosed on any People Inc page. contact: contentlicensing@people.inc entryPoints: - the HTTP 402 response body - the robots.txt comment header on every brand domain terms: https://www.people.inc/brands-termsofservice evidence: - url: https://people.com/robots.txt status: 200 detail: | GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User carry only "Disallow: /thmb/", while Google-Extended, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, CCBot, cohere-ai, Meta-ExternalAgent and PerplexityBot carry "Disallow: /". x-canonical: generated: '2026-10-08' vocabulary: all/0-working/economics/plans-canonical.yml models: - negotiated units: [] plans: - name: D/Cipher Contextual Advertising access: other model: negotiated model_how: derived units: [] periods: [] - name: Branded Content + Experiences access: other model: negotiated model_how: derived units: [] periods: [] - name: Editorial Award Seal Licensing access: other model: negotiated model_how: derived units: [] periods: [] - name: Brand Licensing access: other model: unstated model_how: derived units: [] periods: [] - name: Editorial Content Licensing access: other model: negotiated model_how: derived units: [] periods: [] - name: Targeted Media Health (Point-of-Care) access: other model: negotiated model_how: derived units: [] periods: [] - name: Media Now Interactive access: other model: negotiated model_how: derived units: [] periods: [] - name: Consumer Magazine Subscriptions access: other model: unstated model_how: derived units: [] periods: []