Voices distributed a large variety of writing through its website and content partners, including Yahoo!
It was based in Denver, Colorado, with business development, sales and community offices in New York City.
In April 2009, Associated Content hired a new CEO, Patrick Keane, formerly of CBS Interactive and Google[2] and closed a $6 million Series C round of funding from SoftBank Capital and Canaan Partners.
claimed more stringent submission guidelines would be used in accepting new content and that the company would delete over 75,000 pieces that they deemed to be "inactive and outdated".
[6] The new service aimed to provide "more than two million pieces of original content, spanning thousands of different topics, created by more than 500,000 individual experts and enthusiasts".
On July 11, 2012, a hacking group calling itself "D33DS Company" posted a file online containing approximately 450,000 login credentials and passwords from Yahoo Voice users.
The data was obtained through a SQL injection attack that exploited vulnerabilities in Yahoo's database servers.
[9][10][11][12] In addition to text content (articles), AC featured categories for video, audio, and slide shows along with an online community where users shared their expertise, network and voice opinions.
All articles written by users who agreed to the contract were eligible to receive payments based on the number of page views.
Slate technical writer Farhad Manjoo summed up this criticism thus: "Associated Content stands as a cautionary tale for anyone looking to do news by the numbers.
It is a wasteland of bad writing, uninformed commentary, and the sort of comically dull recitation of the news you'd get from a second grader.