It grew to become a major[citation needed] worldwide online newswire service, providing news and other content, to websites, digital signage, and other publishers who paid a fee for the service.

The company also provides a variety of non-editorial content services such as weather, horoscopes, trivia and business data.

AHN covered international and national news using a network of journalists, writers, contributors and freelance "stringers" from the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

AHN editors were located in various cities in the United States and abroad and managed electronic news-gathering operations using a proprietary news content management system called NewsBahn.

[citation needed] At its peak, AHN produced over 100,000 news articles a year.