Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web
THE SO WHAT
Flipboard buying Graze is a bet that you can rebuild ad and creator economics on open protocols rather than walled gardens. If you publish or run a consumer app, you should be testing how much audience and revenue you can route through open feeds before the next round of platform policy changes hits.
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