Flipboard Storyboards How To Set Up And Use Them

What Is a Flipboard Storyboard?

A Flipboard Storyboard is a curated mini-magazine on Flipboard that lets users create a smaller, more targeted content collection than a regular Flipboard magazine.

How to Tell if You Have Access to Storyboards

To get started setting up Storyboards, you’ll need to start in your account, just as you would to create a magazine. Storyboards uses a Flipboard tool called Curator Pro. However, it’s important to note that not everyone has access to Curator Pro. It is available to publishers, bloggers, and select users that the company has individually vetted in Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US. To determine if you can create Storyboards: If you do have the option to create Storyboards, then getting started is as easy as creating a magazine. Before you get started, though, there are a few things to know:

Storyboards can have a limited number of curated articles added to them. Flipboard suggests that Storyboards follow the principle that ‘smaller is better.’ For this reason, the company suggests only 5-12 articles should be curated for a Flipboard.Despite the suggestion, Storyboards can be divided into sections. Each section can have no more than 10 articles included.The Lifespan of a Storyboard is about three days. They’ll stay online until you remove them, however, after 3 days the level of traffic visiting a storyboard seems to drop pretty dramatically.Flipboard picks great storyboards to include their own weekly Top Picks Storyboard, so even if traffic has dropped, leaving your Storyboard online can still have benefits.

How to Create a Flipboard Storyboard

With those things in mind, and if you have access to them, here’s how to create a Storyboard.

Check Analytics in 24 Hours

Once your Storyboard is published, it will take about 24 hours before you can see any analytics about how it’s performing, but once those come available, you can find them by clicking the graph icon on the Storyboard thumbnail in your Profile. You can also edit the storyboard at any time by clicking the pencil icon.