# Group Nine Media

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/group-nine-media/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Group Nine Media was a New York-based digital-media holding company formed in 2016 through the merger of Discovery Digital with the original Group Nine, uniting the news brand NowThis, the animal brand The Dodo, the lifestyle brand Thrillist, and the science brand Seeker under one roof (it later added PopSugar). Backed by Discovery Inc. and venture investor IVP, it built large social-video and branded-content audiences before it was acquired by Vox Media in February 2022 and folded into that portfolio. Group Nine operated as a consumer media publisher, not an API provider: it did not publish a public developer portal, API documentation, SDKs, or any machine-readable API surface, and its groupnine.com domain now resolves to a third-party domain-sale landing page. This profile is retained as a VC-portfolio identity record with no scorable API 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, Media, Digital Media, Publishing, Video, News, Acquired

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