AdKnowledge

Adknowledge, Inc. was a performance-based digital advertising and marketing technology holding company founded in 2004 by Scott Lynn and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. It ran a response-based targeting marketplace that connected advertisers to consumers across email, search, domains, social and app inventory, and it exposed a publisher-facing AdStation platform with an automated offer engine and creative library. Ben Legg served as Group CEO from 2011 to 2016, during which the company consolidated a long acquisition run (Super Rewards, Miva, Cubics, Lookery, Hydra Group, AdParlor, Giant Media, TriVu Media and others) into video and social units that were then sold off; AdParlor was subsequently acquired by Fluent in 2019. Third-party company registries now list Adknowledge as out of business. It entered the API Evangelist network as a portfolio-lead stub via kleiner-perkins. Contemporary integration write-ups confirm a historical RESTful AdStation / Publisher Platform API, but as of this enrichment pass no live surface survives: the adknowledge.com zone is still registered (AWS Route 53 nameservers, Microsoft 365 mail with an SPF record) yet publishes no A record for the apex or for www, api, developer, developers, docs or publisher, so there is no reachable website, developer portal, API documentation or machine-readable specification from which to harvest provider artifacts.

AdKnowledge is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Advertising, Marketing, and AdTech.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: adknowledge
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/adknowledge.png
name: AdKnowledge
description: 'Adknowledge, Inc. was a performance-based digital advertising and marketing technology holding company founded
  in 2004 by Scott Lynn and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. It ran a response-based targeting marketplace that connected
  advertisers to consumers across email, search, domains, social and app inventory, and it exposed a publisher-facing AdStation
  platform with an automated offer engine and creative library. Ben Legg served as Group CEO from 2011 to 2016, during which
  the company consolidated a long acquisition run (Super Rewards, Miva, Cubics, Lookery, Hydra Group, AdParlor, Giant Media,
  TriVu Media and others) into video and social units that were then sold off; AdParlor was subsequently acquired by Fluent
  in 2019. Third-party company registries now list Adknowledge as out of business. It entered the API Evangelist network as
  a portfolio-lead stub via kleiner-perkins. Contemporary integration write-ups confirm a historical RESTful AdStation / Publisher
  Platform API, but as of this enrichment pass no live surface survives: the adknowledge.com zone is still registered (AWS
  Route 53 nameservers, Microsoft 365 mail with an SPF record) yet publishes no A record for the apex or for www, api, developer,
  developers, docs or publisher, so there is no reachable website, developer portal, API documentation or machine-readable
  specification from which to harvest provider artifacts.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adknowledge/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- kleiner-perkins
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
x-enrichment-status: 'no-live-surface: company out of business; adknowledge.com apex/www/api/developer/docs all NXDOMAIN (no
  A record) as of 2026-07-20; zone still registered on AWS Route 53 with Microsoft 365 MX + SPF but no web host; no developer
  portal, docs, or spec found; the historical AdStation / Publisher Platform REST API is attested only in third-party write-ups
  and is not recoverable'
x-probe:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  method: probed
  hosts_resolving: []
  hosts_nxdomain:
  - adknowledge.com
  - www.adknowledge.com
  - api.adknowledge.com
  - developer.adknowledge.com
  - developers.adknowledge.com
  - docs.adknowledge.com
  - publisher.adknowledge.com
  zone:
    registered: true
    nameservers: awsdns (Route 53)
    mx: adknowledge-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
    spf: true
    dmarc: false
    dnssec: false
    caa: false
  github_org: none (github.com/adknowledgeportal is the unrelated Alzheimer's Disease Knowledge Portal)
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Advertising
- Marketing
- AdTech
- Email
- Publishers
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1