Neil Vogel

People Inc. is offsetting a 50% decline in Google search traffic through off-platform growth and its highest digital revenue gains in five quarters.

The layoffs reflect a strategic decision on People Inc.’s part to free up money to invest in growth areas, according to CEO Neil Vogel’s memo to employees.

People Inc. – the former Dotdash Meredith – is fighting on multiple fronts to keep its business growing as Google Search declines precipitously as a source of referral traffic.

Dotdash Meredith is People now; brands love influencers again; and Apple’s gonna finally help you with all those spam calls.

With no-click generative AI search gaining steam, here’s how publishers can thrive when search traffic disappears.

DDM reported 1% Q1 revenue growth, citing traffic downturns Google’s AI search results and soft advertising demand due to tariff-induced uncertainty.

In today’s newsletter: Dotdash Meredith CEO Neil Vogel dishes on the news biz; Freevee might soon exit stage left; Fubo sues Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery to block their planned sports streaming service.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Black Boxes All The Way Down Unsurprisingly, Google’s first AI-generated creative, which forms custom imagery and copywriting by prompt, was built into Performance Max, Google’s AI-operated advertising product. In a way, creative generation is the black box inside the black box of campaign optimization, […]

Dotdash Meredith bet on contextual with its launch of D/Cipher, but it remains to be seen whether it can turn its revenue numbers around.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Personalization Delusion The ability to dynamically scale creative and A/B test dozens – even hundreds – of ad campaign permutations, all potentially targeting specific audience types, has led marketers away from making a single piece of creative that stands alone and appeals to as […]

Less is more for Dotdash Meredith, IAC’s fastest-growing business unit. When Meredith’s Health.com site migrated to Dotdash’s digital platform last week, the impact was immediate. Although the site now hosts 30% fewer ads, its pages load five times faster, and the click-through rate on ads is up by 60%.

Dotdash Meredith CEO Neil Vogel has a post-cookie plan. IAC is planning to consolidate the Dotdash and Meredith ad sales teams within the next two weeks and unify their ad stacks with a focus on contextual targeting.

Change seems constant in the media business. A chain of digital media consolidations in 2019 has created new scaled players: Group Nine Media and PopSugar; Refinery29 and Vice Media; and Vox Media and New York Media. Besides a greatly transformed competitive landscape, 2020 will see publishers wrestling with new challenges. Privacy and regulation, for instance, […]

AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Dotdash is among the oldest continuously operating digital publishers. In its previous incarnation as About.com, the company employed legions of “experts” on topics as varied as saving for retirement, diabetes and the Middle East. Later, under the ownership of IAC, it rebranded as Dotdash and structured […]

IAC-owned About.com is losing its web 1.0 moniker and rebranding as Dotdash. Dotdash is the umbrella brand behind About.com’s slew of new vertical sites, which includes properties like personal finance-focused The Balance, as well as the health and fitness site, Verywell. Neil Vogel claimed that the vertical reinvention last year is paying dividends. Verywell, for […]