Flip.com is the Latest to Deadpool

Flip.com, the social network where teen girls can create online “flip books”, is being shut down by parent company Conde Naste, according to a recent Gawker report. Launched well over a year ago during the gilded age of old media building a plethora of social networks for the purpose of gaining traffic and eyeballs, Flip.com seemed doomed from the beginning.

A large focus on branded content for teen girls to use in their custom flip book designs coupled with a more-or-less walled garden approach to media sharing were just a couple of the reasons that could be attributed to Flip.com’s