# Minute Media

> Minute Media is a global technology, media and advertising company. It operates
> owned-and-operated sports and entertainment brands (Sports Illustrated, The Players'
> Tribune, 90min, Mental Floss, FanSided, The Big Lead, DBLTAP) and licenses publishing
> and monetization technology to third-party publishers — the STN Online Video Platform
> (acquired as STN Video / SendtoNews in January 2024), the Minute Media SSP, and
> ad-management solutions. Minute Media publishes no developer portal, no API reference
> and no machine-readable API definition. Two real API surfaces are nevertheless live and
> were verified by probe on 2026-08-12: a public oEmbed 1.0 endpoint, and a
> credential-gated publisher API whose only public client is the company's own WordPress
> plugin.

This file was generated by API Evangelist from probed evidence, not published by Minute
Media. Nothing here is a vendor claim.

## APIs

- [STN Video oEmbed API](https://embed.sendtonews.com/services/oembed): Public,
  unauthenticated oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoint. GET with `url` (a URL-encoded
  embed.sendtonews.com resource containing `SC=<share-code>` or `fk=<video-key>`) and
  `format` (`json` or `xml`). Returns a type `video` oEmbed payload with provider_name,
  author_name, title, width, height, cache_age and the player `html`. Verified 200 on
  2026-08-12. Calling it without a resolvable `url` returns 400 "url must include SC or fk".
- [STN Video Publisher API](https://api.sendtonews.com/api/v1/): Credential-gated. Every
  operation is a POST carrying `cid` (Company ID) and `authcode` (Authentication Code) in
  the request body. Known operations, read from the provider's own plugin:
  `auth/verifycode`, `players`, `categories`, `stories`. Verified live: an unauthenticated
  POST returns 422 with `{"success":false,"code":422,"errors":{...}}`. Credentials are not
  self-serve — publishers request them from publishers@stnvideo.com.

## Specs

- No OpenAPI, Swagger, GraphQL, AsyncAPI or MCP manifest is published. Contract discovery
  probed /openapi.json, /openapi.yaml, /swagger.json, /v1/openapi.json, /api-docs, /docs,
  /redoc, /graphql, and every /.well-known/ path across www.minutemedia.com,
  minutemedia.com, www.stnvideo.com, stnvideo.com, www.ovp.stnvideo.com, api.stnvideo.com,
  api.sendtonews.com, embed.sendtonews.com and amp.stnvideo.com. Every one returned 404;
  pub.stnvideo.com returned 503 to our client.
- No A2A agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json or /.well-known/agent.json on any host.
- No security.txt, no OpenID/OAuth discovery document, no API catalog.

## Artifacts

- [Authentication](authentication/minute-media-authentication.yml): the cid/authcode model.
- [Conventions](conventions/minute-media-conventions.yml): pagination, filtering, CORS,
  caching, versioning, and the undocumented MM-Tenant / X-MM-Property tenancy headers the
  CORS policy advertises.
- [Error codes](errors/minute-media-error-codes.yml): the two incompatible JSON error
  envelopes served from the same host.
- [Lifecycle](lifecycle/minute-media-lifecycle.yml): versioning, and the absent deprecation
  policy, SLA and status page.
- [Conformance](conformance/minute-media-conformance.yml): oEmbed 1.0 and AMP video-iframe
  conform; RFC 9457, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, RFC 9116 and RFC 8594 do not.
- [Components](components/minute-media-components.yml): the player embed surface
  (player1–player4, seven player types, AMP video-iframe, shortcode/block/widget/oEmbed).
- [Packages](packages/minute-media-packages.yml): two first-party WordPress plugins; no SDK
  in any language registry.
- [Rate limits](rate-limits/minute-media-rate-limits.yml): none documented, none signalled.
- [Plans](plans/minute-media-plans-pricing.yml): no published pricing.
- [Well-known](well-known/minute-media-well-known.yml): a verified absence across 7 hosts.
- [Domain security](security/minute-media-domain-security.yml): TLS/HSTS/SPF/DMARC probe.

## Docs

- [Minute Media](https://www.minutemedia.com/)
- [About](https://www.minutemedia.com/company/about-us)
- [Publisher solutions](https://www.minutemedia.com/solutions/publishers)
- [Minute Media SSP](https://www.minutemedia.com/platform/minute-media-ssp)
- [Ad management solution](https://www.minutemedia.com/platform/ad-management-solution)
- [STN Video](https://www.stnvideo.com/)
- [STN Online Video Platform](https://www.ovp.stnvideo.com/)
- [STN Video publisher resources](https://www.stnvideo.com/resources/)
- [WordPress OVP plugin — includes the API authorization flow](https://www.stnvideo.com/resources/our-wordpress-ovp-plugin/)
- [Publisher's Dashboard](https://pub.stnvideo.com/)
- [Contact](https://www.minutemedia.com/company/contact) — publishers@stnvideo.com for API credentials
- [Privacy policy](https://www.minutemedia.com/policies/privacy-policy)
- [Terms and conditions](https://www.minutemedia.com/policies/terms-and-conditions)
- [Takedown policy](https://www.minutemedia.com/policies/takedown-policy)