My intention here is not to sway 75% of my readers away from your online feed readers.
In addition to being the most popular desktop feed reader for, NetNewsWire’s built in browser is the fourth most used browser for viewing this site. With NetNewsWire accounting for over 50% of my desktop reader’s market share, or 13% of the total market share for The remaing 25% of my subscribers are using desktop feed readers. Of that total online readership Google takes up 49%, NewsGator 26%, Apple RSS (various) takes 8%, Firefox Live Bookmarks takes 5%, Bloglines 4%, and various other online readers add up to the final 8%. (For the most part.)Īccording to the stats for, 75% of readers are subscribed to my feed through an online reader. Just look at your own site’s stats, and I’m sure they’ll concur. But based on various articles, conversations and website statistics it is pretty clear that online readers are the most popular feed reader. I wasn’t able to find any cut and dry feed reader market share stats that were any more recent than the ones FeedBurner published two years ago. (Worth noting is Greg Reinacker’s article unraveling part of the mystery behind the growing domination of online feed readers.) Web-based feed readers seem to be dominating the market share. That does not, however, mean that NetNewsWire is the most popular RSS reader, period. NetNewsWire is arguably the most popular desktop feed reader on the planet.
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