MediaSpike

MediaSpike was an AdTech startup founded in 2011 by Blake Commagere and headquartered in Mountain View, California, that built a native monetization platform for dynamic, programmatic product placement inside social, mobile, and virtual-reality games. Its API let game developers surface contextual in-game sponsorships and brand placements, and the network reportedly reached roughly 20 million unique users at its peak. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Google Ventures, CMEA Capital, 500 Startups, and others (a $5.2M Series A in November 2013), the company ceased operations around June 2017. mediaspike.com no longer hosts the product and currently serves only a "coming soon" placeholder; no live API, developer portal, or discovery surface remains.

MediaSpike is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, AdTech, Advertising, Gaming, and In-Game Advertising.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyAdTechAdvertisingGamingIn-Game AdvertisingProduct PlacementMobile GamesDefunct

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 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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Source (apis.yml)

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  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/mediaspike.png
name: MediaSpike
description: MediaSpike was an AdTech startup founded in 2011 by Blake Commagere and headquartered in Mountain View, California,
  that built a native monetization platform for dynamic, programmatic product placement inside social, mobile, and virtual-reality
  games. Its API let game developers surface contextual in-game sponsorships and brand placements, and the network reportedly
  reached roughly 20 million unique users at its peak. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Google Ventures, CMEA Capital,
  500 Startups, and others (a $5.2M Series A in November 2013), the company ceased operations around June 2017. mediaspike.com
  no longer hosts the product and currently serves only a "coming soon" placeholder; no live API, developer portal, or discovery
  surface remains.
x-status: defunct
x-ceased: '2017'
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x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
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created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
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  date: '2026-07-20'
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tags:
- Company
- AdTech
- Advertising
- Gaming
- In-Game Advertising
- Product Placement
- Mobile Games
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io