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Conde Nast Shuts Down Teen Sites Flip.com and YM.com
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by Jarrett Martineau | December 3, 2008 at 08:45 am
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After making substantial cuts its editorial, business, production and technology departments in November, publishing giant Condé Nast is closing the doors on two of its teen web properties: "online scrapbooking site" Flip.com and the YM.com message board, a successor to YM Magazine.
The company has reported a huge decline in advertising revenue for its roster of magazines — and the two teen websites failed to match the success of social networking rivals Facebook and MySpace.
About a year ago, Condé Nast converted Flip.com from a standalone teen networking Web site to an online application on Facebook. Now, the company is shutting down the application altogether, along with the application’s Web site, Flip.com.
Users were informed that the app would come down Dec. 16.
Flip, which launched in 2007 as an online scrapbooking site, reached more than 300,000 users but failed to achieve a traffic level that would rival major social networks like Facebook and MySpace.
Condé Nast also is taking down message board YM.com, the online survivor of the defunct YM magazine, whose assets Condé Nast bought in 2004.
“The idea is that we’re encouraging people to go to TeenVogue.com,” said a spokesperson for Condé Nast digital arm CondéNet, referring to the Web counterpart of Condé Nast’s teen title.
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at 10:24 on December 3rd, 2008
Condé Nast is being prepared the launch in Italy, on 19 February 2009, WIRED Italia. There is great wait, I have participated personally to the presentation of number zero and he seems that all items are very good: board publishing, graphical, contents, campaign of communication, involvement of the various ones community, etc.
Even if they have been great cuts of budget and resources to international level, like for Current.TV in Italy, i think that the choose of Italy market can be the right choice for a succes story.
You read the complete article on http://www.7thfloor.it and the interview to Chris Anderson, the editor-in-chief of WIRED USA.
Andrea Genovese
7thFLOOR Magazine has contributed a photo to this story.
at 21:11 on December 7th, 2008
YM is more than just a message board. We have made so many amazing friends on this site, and you're taking it away from us.
Thanks.
A lot.
at 19:18 on December 4th, 2008
Douchebag.
at 19:19 on December 4th, 2008
This is so upsetting.
at 19:48 on December 4th, 2008
We actually aren't moving to TeenVogue because it's a horrid place.
Conde Nast is really removing a gem from the internet.
at 19:49 on December 4th, 2008
OPEN YM BACK UP MOFOS!!!
at 19:49 on December 4th, 2008
We will never go to TV.
YM will live on!
at 19:53 on December 4th, 2008
Yeah, too bad none of us will be going to Teen Vogue. Hah.
at 19:54 on December 4th, 2008
SO UNFAIR.
at 19:56 on December 4th, 2008
THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR CONDE NASTY FOR CURING OUR ANTI-SOCIAL DISEASES
YOU ALSO PREVENTED A CHAIN OF MURDERS THAT WERE TO BE COMMITED BY THE USER LAUREN__
WE ALL THANK YOU VERY MUCH BECAUSE NOW WE HAVE A SITE WITH AVATARS AND PRIVATE MESSAGING AND AN ADULT BOARD
ALSO NO 30 SECOND RULE
KTHNXBAI
at 20:02 on December 4th, 2008
F-CK YOU ALL.
at 20:03 on December 4th, 2008
I believe the YMers have spoken and WE WILL NOT BE GOING TO TEEN VOGUE.
We've migrated elsewhere, Suckaaaa.
LONG LIVE THE YMers!!!
at 20:04 on December 4th, 2008
No one likes TV, this sucks.
at 00:08 on December 5th, 2008
For realz, the new forum that two YMers made is shaping up to be so much better.
And TeenVogue sucks, we all hate it. Way to leave us hanging. And way to send us emails a week before you shut down the site.
at 00:25 on December 5th, 2008
:(
rip ym
at 14:19 on December 5th, 2008
YM was the best, and it's so stupid for taking down the site. Of course it wouldn't have enough people like MySpace and FB, but that's why the users on it are on there. Because it's SPECIAL. We like it when everyone are members that we can recognize and know. For many of us YMers, YM was in our no.1 spot of online activities and FB and MS could not surpass.
But it's going to be weird without YM now. I'll find myself going to ym.com next week and realizing it's not there.
at 14:28 on December 5th, 2008
Conde Nast is making a truly horrible decision here. Ym is a haven for so many of us and we care about it more than you could ever know. We will NEVER go to TeenVogue. Ever. You just can't close ym down.
at 10:29 on December 6th, 2008
All these comments are so sad. I'll miss YM so much. I think you're making a bad decision by shutting it down. But we have a new message board, way better than TV.
at 09:47 on December 7th, 2008
Teenvogue is full of stupid bumb bitches that only talk about clothes and makeup.
WE WANT REAL DISCUSSIONS.
When teenvogue no longer consists of stupid bimbos we may consider going there.
at 09:49 on December 7th, 2008
ym was full of my friends and since you are shutting it down im going to go back to cutting myself and being suicidal.
you will see me on the news soon.
and i hope you know that YES it is your fault.
LONG LIVE THE GUILT.
at 10:05 on December 7th, 2008
YM will definitely be missed... =(
at 14:17 on December 8th, 2008
LOL, like we would go to TV...
at 14:20 on December 8th, 2008
YM WAS A GREAT PLACE .....why the heck would we want to go to TV ew.
at 14:26 on December 8th, 2008
Did you really think we were going to TV?
at 14:27 on December 8th, 2008
did you really think we were going to TV?
at 14:29 on December 8th, 2008
HAHA.
We totally pwned your plans of moving to TeenVogue.
Go ahead, cut costs all you want. It's not like your staff actually did anything for us, anyways, even when the magazine WAS in publication.
You had so many security issues with YM, the fact that we couldn't even delete our own accounts being one of them, to the fact that so many guests could watch every detail we were typing without making an account. Spammers were never properly banned and kept coming back, and you made no attempt to discourage it.
All of those problems could have been fixed by a competant staff, but from the way that TeenVogue is run, looks like you don't have one there, either. So it's no surprise to me that your company is run by lazy, incompetant fools who have tacky fashion sense.
Orange and pink ARE NOT COMPLIMENTARY COLORS.
at 14:29 on December 8th, 2008
some of us been on here for soo long and even made friends on her. it really does suck that its closing down. im not switching to any other website so after ym im done.
at 14:32 on December 8th, 2008
Dear Conde Nast
at 14:32 on December 8th, 2008
No one is going to Teen Vogue. You've failed.
at 14:33 on December 8th, 2008
IDIOTS