Hearst: From Elle & Marie Claire to E-Commerce

Hearst (which owns Elle, Marie Claire, Esquire and Cosmopolitan, among others) has launched the first of a few new digital-only products, a shopping site called BestProducts.com. According to Digiday, the site will be overseen by executive director Patrick Varone and will have a team of 15 when fully staffed.

BestProducts will also feature Hearst’s publishing platform, which the company uses—or will use

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soon—for all of its brands. The custom CMS allows Hearst editors to see what stories are trending well and sibling sites and share editorial content with each other, so they can scale their audience faster.

The idea of BestProducts.com is not to attempt to compete with Amazon but to serve shoppers who need help making up their mind on what to buy but don’t want to do the work of sifting through the Web’s ocean of information.

The site’s editors will evaluate and recommend products in nine verticals including food and drink, gadgets, beauty, fashion and home, based on what’s trending around the Web and what consumers are already saying about them online.

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