Minute Media

Minute Media is a global technology, media, and advertising company that builds and operates digital sports and entertainment content brands while licensing publishing and monetization technology to third parties. Its owned-and-operated properties include Sports Illustrated, The Players' Tribune, 90min, Mental Floss, FanSided, The Big Lead, and DBLTAP, reaching a reported 200+ million monthly users. On the technology side it offers the STN Online Video Platform (OVP) for video publishing and monetization, a Minute Media SSP for programmatic advertising, and ad-management solutions for publishers. Minute Media was surfaced as a portfolio company of Battery Ventures and added to the API Evangelist network for enrichment. The company publishes no developer portal, no API reference and no machine-readable API definition, but two real API surfaces are live and were verified by probe: a public oEmbed 1.0 endpoint at embed.sendtonews.com that any publisher can call unauthenticated, and a credential-gated STN Video Publisher API at api.sendtonews.com/api/v1 whose only public client is Minute Media's own WordPress plugin. Both hosts still carry the pre-acquisition SendtoNews brand two renames later.

Minute Media publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Media, Sports, Advertising, and Video.

Minute Media’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, support, engineering blog, signup flow, and 18 more developer resources.

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20.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 8/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

2 APIs

Company Media Sports Advertising Video Publishing AdTech Content oEmbedOnline Video Platform

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 20.6/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20

Access Clarity 5.5 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 8/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

STN Video oEmbed API

The public oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoint for STN Video (formerly SendtoNews), Minute Media's online video platform. A GET with a URL-encoded `url` naming an embed.sendtonews.com ...

STN Video Publisher API

The credential-gated publisher API behind the STN Online Video Platform. Every operation is a POST to https://api.sendtonews.com/api/v1/ carrying a `cid` (Company ID) and `authc...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Minute Media Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Minute Media Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Minute Media Authentication

none/custom-credential-pair · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Minute Media Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Lifecycle

Conformance

Components

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Careers

Careers

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Company

Company

CookiePolicy

CookiePolicy

TakedownPolicy

TakedownPolicy

Source (apis.yml)

aid: minute-media
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: sales
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Partner
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - https://www.stnvideo.com/resources/our-wordpress-ovp-plugin/
  - url: https://www.minutemedia.com
    status: 301
    note: declared website redirects to https://www.minutegroup.com/ — a different registrable domain (minutemedia.com ->
      minutegroup.com), possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
  generated: '2026-08-12'
  method: probed
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/minute-media.png
name: Minute Media
description: 'Minute Media is a global technology, media, and advertising company that builds and operates digital sports
  and entertainment content brands while licensing publishing and monetization technology to third parties. Its owned-and-operated
  properties include Sports Illustrated, The Players'' Tribune, 90min, Mental Floss, FanSided, The Big Lead, and DBLTAP, reaching
  a reported 200+ million monthly users. On the technology side it offers the STN Online Video Platform (OVP) for video publishing
  and monetization, a Minute Media SSP for programmatic advertising, and ad-management solutions for publishers. Minute Media
  was surfaced as a portfolio company of Battery Ventures and added to the API Evangelist network for enrichment. The company
  publishes no developer portal, no API reference and no machine-readable API definition, but two real API surfaces are live
  and were verified by probe: a public oEmbed 1.0 endpoint at embed.sendtonews.com that any publisher can call unauthenticated,
  and a credential-gated STN Video Publisher API at api.sendtonews.com/api/v1 whose only public client is Minute Media''s
  own WordPress plugin. Both hosts still carry the pre-acquisition SendtoNews brand two renames later.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/minute-media/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-12'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-12'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 10
  pass: local-v1
tags:
- Company
- Media
- Sports
- Advertising
- Video
- Publishing
- AdTech
- Content
- oEmbed
- Online Video Platform
apis:
- name: STN Video oEmbed API
  description: The public oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoint for STN Video (formerly SendtoNews), Minute Media's online video platform.
    A GET with a URL-encoded `url` naming an embed.sendtonews.com resource that carries an `SC` share code or an `fk` video
    key returns a type `video` oEmbed payload — provider_name, author_name, title, width, height, cache_age and the player
    `html` — in either JSON or XML. It is unauthenticated and CORS-open, and it is the surface Minute Media registers with
    WordPress through its own oEmbed plugin. Verified live with an HTTP 200 on 2026-08-12.
  humanURL: https://www.stnvideo.com/resources/our-wordpress-ovp-plugin/
  baseURL: https://embed.sendtonews.com/services/oembed
  tags:
  - oEmbed
  - Video
  - Embed
  - Media
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.stnvideo.com/resources/our-wordpress-ovp-plugin/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/minute-media-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/minute-media-error-codes.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/minute-media-conventions.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/minute-media-conformance.yml
  - type: Components
    url: components/minute-media-components.yml
- name: STN Video Publisher API
  description: The credential-gated publisher API behind the STN Online Video Platform. Every operation is a POST to https://api.sendtonews.com/api/v1/
    carrying a `cid` (Company ID) and `authcode` (Authentication Code) in the request body; the operations exercised by Minute
    Media's own WordPress Player Selector plugin are auth/verifycode, players, categories and stories, the last supporting
    search, language, category and offset/length paging over a publisher's video library. There is no public reference and
    no machine-readable definition; credentials are issued by emailing publishers@stnvideo.com. Verified live on 2026-08-12
    — an unauthenticated POST returns HTTP 422 with a structured validation envelope.
  humanURL: https://www.stnvideo.com/resources/our-wordpress-ovp-plugin/
  baseURL: https://api.sendtonews.com/api/v1/
  tags:
  - Video
  - Publishing
  - Content
  - Media
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.stnvideo.com/resources/our-wordpress-ovp-plugin/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/minute-media-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/minute-media-error-codes.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/minute-media-conventions.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/minute-media-lifecycle.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/minute-media-rate-limits.yml
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://pub.stnvideo.com/auth/login
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/minute-media-domain-security.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/minute-media-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/minute-media-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/minute-media-error-codes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/minute-media-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/minute-media-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/minute-media-conformance.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/minute-media-components.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/minute-media-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/minute-media-plans-pricing.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/minute-media-llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://www.minutemedia.com
- type: Company
  url: https://www.minutemedia.com/company/about-us
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.stnvideo.com/resources/our-wordpress-ovp-plugin/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.minutemedia.com/company/contact
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.stnvideo.com/category/newsroom/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/minutemedia
- type: SignUp
  url: https://pub.stnvideo.com/auth/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.minutemedia.com/policies/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.minutemedia.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: CookiePolicy
  url: https://www.minutemedia.com/policies/cookie-policy
- type: TakedownPolicy
  url: https://www.minutemedia.com/policies/takedown-policy
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.minutemedia.com/company/careers
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io

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