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Flipboard

flipboard.com
🏆Rank #3,196 🏷 Media 🇺🇸United States

Flipboard uses Substack for marketing email and Amazon SES for transactional/notifications. They rank #3,196 in the Tranco list of most-popular domains. Their email authentication setup is good (score 65/100). Missing: one-click unsubscribe.

Marketing ESPSubstack
Transactional ESPAmazon SES
Total observations5
Active days4
Avg per active day1.3
Last activity📬 Active · 13 days ago
Cadence~weekly
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Email setup 65/100

Authentication signals observed in this brand's emails. SPF, DKIM and DMARC are the standard sender-authentication stack — see the DMARC policy below for whether spoofing is actually blocked or just monitored. One-click unsubscribe meets Google & Yahoo's bulk-sender requirements.

Solid setup, room to improve
Most authentication signals are present. A couple of pieces would tighten things up.
65/100
SPF
pass
DKIM
pass
DMARC
pass (quarantine)
BIMI
none
Unsubscribe
missing
SPF lookups 5/10
Authentication

DMARC enforced with p=quarantine — receivers actively reject or quarantine spoofed mail. No aggregate reporting destination configured.

SPF alignment: 60% of observed emails use an aligned return-path (email.flipboard.com); the rest use third-party paths (amazonses.com) where DMARC has to rely on DKIM alignment.

DKIM alignment: all 4 observed emails sign with a domain aligned with flipboard.com (flipboard.com). DKIM authenticates the visible From — supports DMARC directly.

Other ESPs detected

Brands often use multiple ESPs (e.g. one for marketing, another for transactional/notifications).

None — only the primary ESP(s) shown above

Confirmed senders

ESPs we've seen sending email for this brand. Green = confirmed by SPF, sender IP rDNS, or known infra pairing (label shows the source). Grey = observed but not yet confirmed by SPF or PTR.

Amazon SES ✓ confirmed

Other SPF authorizations

ESPs this brand has authorized in their SPF record. We confirm them with a green ✓ only after seeing recurring use (3+ emails across 2+ days). Until then they stay here — either we haven't observed any email yet, or we've seen a handful but not enough to call them a regular sender for the brand.

Google Workspace Mailchimp SendGrid

Probed: flipboard.com, amazonses.com, email.flipboard.com

Where emails landed (Gmail)

Folder distribution across all emails from this brand observed in Gmail inboxes. High inbox % = good deliverability; spam appearances are the headline signal.

FolderCountShare
inbox 1 20.0%
promotions 4 80.0%

Placement by ESP

Which ESP's emails are landing where. Sorted by spam % so problem senders surface first. Brands using one ESP for marketing and another for transactional often see very different placement profiles per ESP. Per-ESP folder data only started being captured recently — counts here may be smaller than the total above until backfill catches up.

ESP Emails Placement Inbox % Tabs % Spam %
Amazon SES 3
33.3% 66.7% 0.0%
Substack 2
0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

ESP activity over time

May 19 – Jun 17, 2026 · 4 days with sends

Daily observations per ESP. Brands often run multiple ESPs concurrently — marketing on one, transactional on another — so this chart shows usage rather than switches.

2 0 Amazon SES: 1 (2026-05-19)1Substack: 1 (2026-06-02)1Substack: 1 (2026-06-12)1Amazon SES: 2 (2026-06-17)205/1905/2205/2505/2805/3106/0306/0606/0906/1206/1506/17
Amazon SES Substack

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Sending IPs

IP addresses flipboard.com has been observed sending from, and where their mail landed in Gmail.

IPHostnameObsReputation
54.240.73.100 a73-100.smtp-out.amazonses.com 4 Check →
216.221.170.155 g170-155.smtp-out.amazonses.com 1 Check →

Per-IP inbox / promotions / spam is being collected and will appear here as new emails are observed.

Sending domains

DomainESPs detectedDelivery (7d)
flipboard.comAmazon SES 3 Substack 2