Donut Media

Donut Media is an American automotive entertainment brand and one of the largest automotive channels on YouTube, founded in 2015 by Matt Levin, Ben Conrad, and Nick Moceri. It is best known for original series such as Up to Speed, Money Pit, and HiLow, along with the Past Gas podcast, reaching millions of car enthusiasts through video, social, and audio. Donut monetizes through advertising, brand sponsorships, content licensing, and an extensive Shopify-powered online store selling apparel, hats, and collectibles. The company was acquired by Recurrent Ventures in November 2021. This profile documents Donut Media's public web and commerce surface; the company does not publish a developer API program.

Donut Media is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Media, Automotive, Entertainment, and Video.

Donut Media’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 4 more developer resources.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 12.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 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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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: donut-media
name: Donut Media
description: Donut Media is an American automotive entertainment brand and one of the largest automotive channels on YouTube,
  founded in 2015 by Matt Levin, Ben Conrad, and Nick Moceri. It is best known for original series such as Up to Speed, Money
  Pit, and HiLow, along with the Past Gas podcast, reaching millions of car enthusiasts through video, social, and audio.
  Donut monetizes through advertising, brand sponsorships, content licensing, and an extensive Shopify-powered online store
  selling apparel, hats, and collectibles. The company was acquired by Recurrent Ventures in November 2021. This profile documents
  Donut Media's public web and commerce surface; the company does not publish a developer API program.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/donut-media/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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  source: []
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
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tags:
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- Automotive
- Entertainment
- Video
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- Ecommerce
- Merchandise
- Podcast
image: https://donut.media/cdn/shop/files/donut-icon_f6c597f6-925c-48ab-8bce-64048828aa3c.png?v=1763406294
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/donut-media-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://donut.media/
- type: Blog
  url: https://donut.media/blogs/news
- type: Support
  url: https://donut.media/policies/contact-information
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://donut.media/policies/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://donut.media/policies/terms-of-service
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
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  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence