# Associated Content

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/associated-content/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Associated Content was an open content publishing platform founded in 2005 by Luke Beatty that paid contributors to publish articles, video, audio, and images on any topic, then distributed that library through associatedcontent.com and a network of syndication partners. At its peak it hosted over one million pieces of content from roughly 250,000 contributors and adopted Thomson Reuters OpenCalais for automated classification of that library. It raised a $5.4M Series A from SoftBank Capital (2006), a $10M Series B from SoftBank, Canaan Partners, and Tim Armstrong (2007), and $6M more in 2009, before Yahoo acquired it in May 2010. Yahoo rebranded the property as Yahoo Voices in December 2011 and shut it down on July 31, 2014, retiring the Yahoo Contributor Network the following month. The company is defunct: it never published a public developer API, and associatedcontent.com is now a parked domain that refuses HTTPS.

## 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, Defunct, Acquired, Media, Publishing, Content, User Generated Content, Digital Media, Syndication

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