Scout.fm

Scout.fm (Scout FM) was a podcast-curation startup whose iOS, Android, Alexa and CarPlay apps turned podcasts into personalized, radio-like stations using AI-driven recommendations across genres such as news, sports and true crime. Backed by Bloomberg Beta, Precursor Ventures, Advancit Capital and Samsung NEXT (roughly $1.4M raised), the company was acquired by Apple in September 2020 and subsequently shut down, with its apps pulled from every platform. The scout.fm domain no longer resolves and the company publishes no developer, API, or SDK surface. This profile is retained as a historical network record; there is nothing left to enrich.

Scout.fm is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Podcasts, Audio, Recommendations, and Defunct.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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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)

aid: scoutfm
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  trial: false
  try_now: false
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  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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name: Scout.fm
description: Scout.fm (Scout FM) was a podcast-curation startup whose iOS, Android, Alexa and CarPlay apps turned podcasts
  into personalized, radio-like stations using AI-driven recommendations across genres such as news, sports and true crime.
  Backed by Bloomberg Beta, Precursor Ventures, Advancit Capital and Samsung NEXT (roughly $1.4M raised), the company was
  acquired by Apple in September 2020 and subsequently shut down, with its apps pulled from every platform. The scout.fm domain
  no longer resolves and the company publishes no developer, API, or SDK surface. This profile is retained as a historical
  network record; there is nothing left to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scoutfm/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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x-source: vc-portfolio
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- bloomberg-beta
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: apple
x-acquired-date: '2020-09-24'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Podcasts
- Audio
- Recommendations
- Defunct
- Acquired
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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