aid: associated-content
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/associated-content.png
name: Associated Content
description: 'Associated Content was an open content publishing platform founded in 2005 by Luke Beatty
  that paid contributors to publish articles, video, audio, and images on any topic, then distributed
  that library through associatedcontent.com and a network of syndication partners. At its peak it hosted
  over one million pieces of content from roughly 250,000 contributors and adopted Thomson Reuters
  OpenCalais for automated classification of that library. It raised a $5.4M Series A from SoftBank Capital
  (2006), a $10M Series B from SoftBank, Canaan Partners, and Tim Armstrong (2007), and $6M more in 2009,
  before Yahoo acquired it in May 2010. Yahoo rebranded the property as Yahoo Voices in December 2011 and
  shut it down on July 31, 2014, retiring the Yahoo Contributor Network the following month. The company
  is defunct: it never published a public developer API, and associatedcontent.com is now a parked domain
  that refuses HTTPS.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/associated-content/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- canaan-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Acquired by Yahoo in May 2010; operated as Yahoo Voices from December 2011; shut down
  July 31, 2014.
x-acquired-by: yahoo
x-acquired-date: '2010-05'
x-shutdown-date: '2014-07-31'
x-domain-status: parked
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Acquired
- Media
- Publishing
- Content
- User Generated Content
- Digital Media
- Syndication
apis: []
common: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1
  notes: 'Company is defunct (Yahoo acquisition 2010, shut down 2014). No developer API, docs, SDK, or
    package surface was ever published; associatedcontent.com resolves to a parking host (199.191.50.166,
    ztomy.com nameservers), refuses HTTPS, and returns an error page over HTTP. Wayback CDX across 3,000
    archived URLs shows no /api or /developer paths. No artifacts written.'