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Flipboard magazines5/8/2023 When Flipboard launched in 2010, the online news reader called itself a “personal magazine,” using a mix of social feeds and editors to choose articles for you. Get Your Tickets Now: Rebooting The Future Of Media With Mike McCue, August 13 There are still some seats left- you can reserve your seat now with a donation to Girls Who Code. I’ll be interviewing McCue about how these millions of user magazines have transformed the way users consume content on Flipboard-and how this shift is emblematic of other changes in the media landscape-at our next ReadWriteMix on August 13 in San Francisco. Flipboard stories are now as likely to come from other users as staff editors. That’s quadruple the number of magazines the company had just a year ago, three months after it launched user-created magazines, and the pace of creation is accelerating: It’s adding roughly 1 million magazines a month.įlipboard has more than 100 million “activated users”-the company’s term for those who have downloaded its mobile apps and use them to read links and entire articles from a variety of online sources. Mike McCue, the mobile app-maker’s CEO, recently told me that the company now has 10 million digital magazines created by approximately 7 million users. Less than a year and a half after it started letting anyone build digital magazines, Flipboard’s efforts to turn us all into magazine makers have hit critical mass.
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