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TIME INC. BOLSTERS ITS CONSUMER PRODUCT OFFERINGS WITH LAUNCH OF “PEOPLE PERKS”
New Membership Program Available on PEOPLE.com/JoinPerks Beginning Today
Time Inc. [NYSE: TIME] is bolstering its consumer product offerings with the launch of PEOPLE Perks, now available on PEOPLE.com/JoinPerks, a membership program for PEOPLE’s audience that provides unique discounts on a wide range of products and experiences across entertainment, style, food, beauty, pets, home, shopping and more.
Leslie Dukker Doty, Executive Vice President of Consumer Marketing and Revenue, commented, “PEOPLE Perks, like PetHero, a new paid membership program designed for the millions of pet owners nationwide, reinforces Time Inc.’s commitment to creating new, relevant and provocative product offerings for our large direct customer base that includes 30 million subscribers and a digital footprint of more than 127 million uniques every month.”
Memberships are available for $60/year or $5.99/month. PEOPLE Perks provides members with exclusive invitations and offerings from participating partners, including national deals, local discounts from independent retail outlets nationwide, instant savings on shopping, fine and casual dining, local attractions, travel and more.
In addition, PEOPLE Perks members are given the opportunity to earn cash back for shopping online at favorite retail outlets and to enter sweepstakes to win VIP access to unique celebrity and red carpet experiences only PEOPLE can offer, such as the Oscar Fan Experience, rehearsals for the Tony Awards, the Entertainment Weekly/PEOPLE Upfront Party and more.
“The PEOPLE Perks membership program provides access to a very wide variety of savings,” said Jess Cagle, Editor in Chief, PEOPLE. “It also enables our retail partners an opportunity to connect and engage with the PEOPLE audience in new ways.”
PEOPLE’s October 9, 2017 issue, available on newsstands nationwide on Friday, September 29 with “The Pioneer Woman” Ree Drummond gracing the cover, is a special food edition. PEOPLE Perks members can get discounts and exclusive deals at several of the fast casual restaurants featured in this issue.
ABOUT TIME INC.
Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME) is a leading multi-platform consumer media company that engages over 170 million consumers globally every month. The company’s influential brands include PEOPLE, TIME, FORTUNE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, INSTYLE, REAL SIMPLE, SOUTHERN LIVING and TRAVEL + LEISURE, as well as approximately 60 diverse international brands. Time Inc. offers marketers a differentiated proposition in the marketplace by combining its powerful brands, trusted content, audience scale, direct relationships with consumers and unique first-party data. The company is home to growing media and platforms, including digital video, OTT, television, licensing, paid products and services and celebrated live events, such as the TIME 100, FORTUNE Most Powerful Women, PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED’s Sportsperson of the Year, the ESSENCE Festival and the FOOD & WINE Classic in Aspen.
ABOUT PEOPLE
Time Inc.’s PEOPLE revolutionized personality journalism when it launched as a weekly in 1974 with a mission to celebrate extraordinary people doing ordinary things and ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Ubiquitous and still at the center of pop culture more than 40 years later, the PEOPLE brand is accessible across all media and platforms (print, digital, video, OTT, mobile, social) bringing millions of consumers a unique mix of breaking entertainment news, exclusive photos, video, unparalleled access to the red carpet, celebrities, and in-depth reporting on the most compelling newsmakers of our time. An essential component of PEOPLE’s editorial vision remains human interest stories, which touch and often mirror the lives of our passionate audience. ComScore ranks the PEOPLE/Entertainment Weekly Digital Network No. 1 in the entertainment news category. And now, the PEOPLE TV app offers a free, advertiser-supported OTT streaming video service. PEOPLE is an award-winning 24/7 news organization headquartered in NYC with reporters worldwide. For more information visit PEOPLE.com and Timeinc.com, and follow @people on Twitter and Instagram, @peoplemag on Facebook, and the PEOPLE channel on YouTube and on Snapchat’s Discover.
