Zippyshare is closing due to declining revenues and increasing costs

File sharing website Zippyshare closes its doors. The service would receive fewer and fewer visitors and therefore less income. In addition, the increasing number of ad blockers and increased energy prices mean that developers can no longer keep the service profitable.

Zippyshare will stop at the end of March, the administrators write in a blog post. They do not mention a specific date. The creators say that they can no longer keep the website going financially.

According to the makers, this is because there are fewer and fewer visitors and users. In recent years, the number of active Zippyshare users has decreased, according to the administrators because ‘the simple service they offer is becoming less and less interesting’. The makers point to alternative cloud storage services that “look better, perform better and have more features.” “No one wants a dinosaur like us anymore.”

There’s also the problem of ad blockers, which visitors are increasingly using, Zippyshare says. The makers call this a vicious circle; Due to declining income, they are forced to place more advertisements, which in turn creates even more ad blockers. Finally, rising energy prices also play a role, making hosting 2.5 times more expensive in the past year. “Given the large number of servers we manage, costs increased so much that we saw no way to make up for it.”

Users who have files with Zippyshare have ‘about two weeks’ to back them up. The website will remain online until then, but after that it can no longer be used.

Zippyshare started way back in 2006 and was one of the most popular cloud storage services for many years. In recent years, Zippyshare has been overtaken in market share and popularity by cheap alternative hosting parties such as Google Drive, Dropbox and dozens of others. Zippyshare has barely kept up with the times in terms of UI/UX and new features; the last major change was the addition of SSL to uploads and downloads. That happened in 2018.