# Anchor *

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/anchor/  
**Website:** https://anchor.fm  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Anchor was a podcast creation, hosting, distribution, and monetization platform (anchor.fm), founded in 2015 and backed by GV (Google Ventures) among others. Spotify acquired Anchor in 2019 and folded it into its creator tooling, later rebranding the product to Spotify for Podcasters and then Spotify for Creators. The anchor.fm domain now 302-redirects to Spotify's creator product (podcasters.spotify.com / creators.spotify.com); Anchor never published a standalone public developer API, and it no longer operates as an independent company. This profile was surfaced as a portfolio company of gv and added to the API Evangelist network as a stub lead; enrichment confirms it is an acquired/absorbed brand with no independent developer surface to harvest.

## 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).

## Security (1)

- **Anchor Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Consumer, Podcasting, Podcast Hosting, Audio, Creator Tools, Media, Acquired

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