# AdKnowledge

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/adknowledge/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Consumer, Advertising, Marketing, AdTech, Email, Publishers, Defunct

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/adknowledge/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.