Sampler

aid: sampler
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/sampler.png
name: Sampler
description: 'Sampler (The Sampler App Inc., Toronto) was a digital product-sampling platform used by consumer packaged goods
  (CPG) and retail brands to run targeted sample-distribution campaigns, collect first-party consumer data and reviews, and
  measure the impact of sampling on purchase behavior. Founded in 2013, it acquired Abeo and AdMass in 2023 and served brands
  including Procter & Gamble, Unilever, L''Oreal, Nestle and PepsiCo. THE COMPANY IS DEFUNCT: it filed for bankruptcy on 2024-06-27
  with CAD 12.9M in liabilities against roughly CAD 300K in assets, and ceased operations. As of 2026-08-12 the entire estate
  is decommissioned — sampler.io and www.sampler.io fail the TLS handshake outright, api.sampler.io retains stale DNS records
  whose hosts refuse all connections, and every documentation or developer subdomain is NXDOMAIN. Sampler never published
  a public developer API, developer portal, documentation host, OpenAPI, or machine discovery surface; the api.sampler.io/v1/
  endpoints visible in archived crawls were the private backend of its consumer claim widget and admin console, not a documented
  developer product.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sampler/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-12'
tags:
- Company
- Marketing
- Product Sampling
- Consumer Packaged Goods
- Advertising
- Software-as-a-Service
- Defunct
- Retail
tags_raw:
- Company
- Marketing
- Product Sampling
- Consumer Packaged Goods
- Advertising
- SaaS
- Defunct
- Retail
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sampler-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://sampler.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-12'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: Sampler (The Sampler App Inc., Toronto) filed for bankruptcy on 2024-06-27 and ceased operations, and its estate
    is now fully decommissioned — sampler.io and www.sampler.io terminate the TLS handshake with an internal-error alert before
    any HTTP request is sent (reproduced from three independent SSL stacks), api.sampler.io still resolves to three stale
    AWS EC2 addresses that refuse every connection on tcp/80 and tcp/443, and docs./developers./app.sampler.io are NXDOMAIN,
    so there is no surface left to profile.
  evidence:
  - url: https://sampler.io/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.sampler.io/
    status: 0
  - url: https://api.sampler.io/openapi.json
    status: 0
  - url: http://sampler.io/
    status: 301
  - url: https://www.sampler.io/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-08-12'