What Appeared Here
This page showed an example of a fashion news feed from FeedDirect, the consumer feed portal run by Moreover. A small script that FeedDirect provided was inserted on the page, and in its place appeared a fashion feed: a running list of current fashion headlines, each with a short excerpt and a link back to the story. Readers could see what the fashion press was publishing that day without leaving Apparel Search.
FeedDirect was one of the standard ways websites shared headlines in the 2000s. Moreover, founded in 1998, had helped develop the RSS 1.0 standard in 2000, and its consumer portals let any site display a ready-made headline box on a topic — fashion among them — while the machinery of fetching and formatting the feed stayed on Moreover's side.
What Happened
Moreover shut down its free consumer news feeds in 2012, and the FeedDirect display ended with them. In October 2014 LexisNexis acquired Moreover, and in 2015 the company was folded into LexisNexis Newsdesk, a professional media-monitoring product — a different business from free headline boxes for websites. The FeedDirect brand was abandoned: the feed address now redirects to a domain-parking lander, and the FeedDirect domain itself is parked for sale.
No FeedDirect script survives on this page, and none could work if it did — there is no service left to answer it. What remains is the record of how the example worked, which is what this page now keeps.
Where to Look Now
Apparel Search is not affiliated with FeedDirect or with Moreover. The headlines the feed displayed were developed, owned and maintained by the source publications and delivered through FeedDirect's system.
There is no living FeedDirect equivalent to point to. Working fashion feeds do still exist, and the Fashion News Feeds hub links the ones that check out today — the New York Times RSS index and Fibre2Fashion's feed directory among them.
More Feed Examples
- 999Today Fashion News FeedUK headlines through Moreover. The source site is gone entirely, answering HTTP 410.
- About.com Fashion RSS FeedThe guide-site fashion channel. About.com was retired in 2017 and its fashion category was dropped.
- Fashion Week Daily News FeedA digest whose source feed is gone; the publisher still publishes as The Daily Front Row.
- FocusOnStyle Fashion News FeedA digest frozen in February 2014; the site has pivoted to business coaching.
- FUK (Fashion UK) News FeedThe oldest frozen display in this folder: a digest snapshot from spring 2010.
- New York Times Fashion FeedBuilt with Moreover's tools. The intermediary died; the Times still publishes RSS today.
- PRWeb Fashion News FeedPRWeb's own JavaScript widget, now a 404. PRWeb itself is alive under Cision.
- Telegraph Fashion News FeedA digest frozen in September 2015; the Telegraph retired its fashion RSS.
- Yahoo Fashion RSS FeedA digest of Yahoo's news-search RSS, frozen in April 2015.
More Fashion News Resources
- Fashion NewsThe main Apparel Search fashion news page.
- Fashion News HubThe Apparel Search fashion news hub page.
- Daily Fashion NewsDaily fashion news on Apparel Search.
- Celebrity Fashion NewsCelebrity fashion news on Apparel Search.
- Fashion Industry NewsFashion industry news on Apparel Search.
- Fashion BlogThe Apparel Search fashion blog, with current fashion coverage.
Additional Fashion Resources
Common Questions
What was FeedDirect?
FeedDirect was the consumer feed portal of Moreover, a news-aggregation company. It let websites embed a ready-made headline box on a topic such as fashion, assembled from RSS sources and delivered by a small script the site pasted into its pages.
Why did the FeedDirect feed stop working?
Moreover shut down its free consumer news feeds in 2012. LexisNexis acquired Moreover in October 2014 and folded it into LexisNexis Newsdesk in 2015, and the FeedDirect brand and domain were abandoned — the domain is now parked for sale.
Can I still get a fashion headline feed like this one?
Not from FeedDirect, which no longer exists. The Fashion News Feeds hub links the fashion feed sources that are still published today, including the New York Times RSS index and Fibre2Fashion's RSS directory.