TechCrunch is two months old today. To celebrate, I thought we’d reveal our RSS Aggregator market share breakdown. Our numbers are much different than those published by Pheedo and Feedburner. The main difference is Pluck has surged way, way ahead – are others seeing this trend as well?
FeedBurner Stats:
FeedBurner Statistics – Top 5 (July 2005) (removing 10 most popular feeds):
- Bloglines — 19.49%
- NetNewsWire — 10.07%
- iTunes — 9.53%
- Firefox Live Bookmarks — 7.25%
- iPodder — 7.17%
Pheedo Stats:
Consistent with other RSS aggregator market share reports on the Internet, Pheedo is seeing Bloglines atop our feed reader statistics, followed by Firefox, Thunderbird, NewsGator and Sharpreader. In aggregate, these readers are used by almost 70 percent of people subscribing to Pheedo managed RSS content.
TechCrunch Stats:
Compare this to TechCrunch readership (about 1,000 feed readers over last 24 hours):
TechCrunch’s Top 6:
- Pluck – 31.4%
- Bloglines – 24.8%
- NetNewsWire – 7.1%
- NewsGator Online – 5.0%
- Feeddemon – 4.0%
- SharpReader – 3.5%
Pluck is clearly the no. 1 aggregator for TechCrunch readers. Are other bloggers seeing this surge by Pluck?
No, in a word. But then I am in a different sphere (wine and food) so take up of RSS is generally a lot lower than clued-up techie people. Pluck doesnt even register.
Pluck has certainly made a recent comeback, but it is not in that magnitude.
Here is what I have:
My Yahoo 23%
NewsGator Online 13%
NetNewsWire 10%
Bloglines 9%
SharpReader 7%
Pluck 5%
FeedReader 3%
NewsGator Outlook 3%
RssReader 3%
Thunderbird 2%
BlogBridge 2%
Onfolio 2%
FeedDemon 1%
FeedLounge 1%
I find that very odd. Pluck is number 8 for me – and far behind Bloglines (still no. 1 for me by a long shot).
Is TechCrunch perhaps a default feed in Pluck??
If we drilled down into the numbers Pheedo published, the top news readers varied by category. This could also account for the difference.
On View from the Isle I don’t have a single subscriber using Pluck. Qumana 4 (4%).
So Michael, I think you just must be special!