On May 18, 2010, in a note on the Associated Content blog, Luke Beatty — AC founder — announced the community was acquired by Yahoo!.

Associated Content was founded in 2005 by Luke Beatty and publishes and distributes more than 50,000 original articles, audio and video contents every month provided by its contributors.

With this move, Yahoo plans to deliver more relevant contents to attract more readers and advertisers. Financial terms of the acquisition, which will be completed in the third quarter of 2010, were not disclosed.