Sometime last week, in the middle of the TechCrunch50 conference, we reached an awesome milestone - over 1 million average daily readers to our RSS feed. It took us just under 39 months to get to this point, a little over three years.
The number of subscribers tends to bounce around a lot because it represents the number of people each day who view our feed in a RSS reader like Google Reader, Outlook, NewsGator, BlogRovr or Netvibes (which happen to be our top five sources of RSS readers). On weekends, for example, it dips down quite a bit. Tuesday and Wednesday are usually our highest days on average.
Like most blogs, we continue to provide all of our content in full in the feed even though it means less visitors to the site and less page views. If someone takes the time to add us to their reader, I consider them to be among our most loyal readers even if they never actually visit our site.
If you would like to subscribe to the feed the information is on the top right of the site. The feed is feedproxy.google.com/TechCrunch. Alternatively you can subscribe via email just add our toolbar to your browser. For the truly early adopter users, you can also view our feed via Twitter or Friendfeed.
Thank you to everyone who reads our content, whether its by visiting the site or not. You allow me to do what I love best, and make a living from it: write about technology and new startups.
Congratulations!
congrats, although I hate that black part on the feed count icon now. It happened to me too when I switched over to google from feedburner.
BTW, comments are STILL not working in opera mike…
Congratulations! Is this now the most read blog in the world?
Yes, congrats!
Give us more good stuffs!
Pretty amazing accomplishment. I can’t imagine there are too many other sites with over 1 million RSS subscribers out there.
Michael, congrats on the milestone. You’ve worked hard to get where you are at. You put on a great event at TC50, unfortunately I didn’t get to meet you. Maybe next year
-Jeff O’Hara
Congratulations! And how apt it comes out at “1024K”.. you have a whole megabyte of readers
Congrats, thank YOU and you’re welcome. Sums it all up pretty nicely.
win.
Congratulations! Does an expanding reader base demand additional interns in the coming years?
it’s great
Wow , 1 MB of readers. I wish you have 10 MB next year.
WOW that is impressive and inspiring! Congratulations!
Congats to Michael and all the TechCrunch staff
1 million is BIG
Olivia shuts andrew up with good info
Ok “Andrew of Mixergy”, as if your not self-promotional? WTF is your point? Talk about fuckin’ ballache.
You come across as a used car salesman that thinks the ‘web of the nineties’ was just fine, yahoo display ads on a search page are not a problem, and default opt-out email marketing is a good thing.
You are just the latest douchebag to show up in TC comments self-promoting all over the place and “replying” to comments near the the top. Unfortunately, you won’t be the last.
1 mill rss readers for tc
Very impressive. Congrats.
@Alex - lol
“used car salesman” - that’s good
Congratulations!
Wow did you bring it down? I get a 502 error when i try to access it!
Keep up the great work, Mike et al!
Congratulations, Michael.
With a combination of insight, timing, and lots of hard work, you and your team have created an inspiring sucess story.
Looking forward to 2MM already!
In all seriousness - congratulations Mike, I read somewhere that you personally account for over a third of total TechCrunch posts so you’ve got here on the back of your own hard work and can be proud of what you and your team have achieved!
Don’t stop there though!
Congratulations, Mike!
The irony is that the feeds aren’t working right now.
Congrats!
Does that help with the ladies Mike? “Hey, how you doing, I got 1000000 RSS’s. I will show you my analytics if you show me yours!!!
I … feel like such a number now
How doth one celebrate such a fat milestone?
congratulations, respect and all the best to you.
ps. i saw mc hammer and don dodge on a picture from tc50, brilliant
Congrats Mike! I’ve been refreshing the TechCrunch page quite often before I discovered the joy of RSS and that was, come to think of it, 2-3 years ago already. I guess that makes me a pretty loyal fan. I have also enjoyed watching several of your presentations, interviews and other appearances. You always come across as a very smart, insightful, honest and yet humble guy. I really appreciate that!
I guess I’m one of those 990,000 passive readers that are silently enjoying your posts. So, for a change, I wanted to take the time to both congratulate and thank you for the great service to the startup community and mainly to remind you that, even when trolls make nasty comments, we, the silent but loyal readers, vote for you by coming back every day. So keep up the good work and here’s for the next Mil…!
Congratulations !!!!
congrats mikey
glad rss is working out so well for you.
Whilst the http://feedproxy.google.com/TechCrunch rss feed is down, you’ve just lost 1 million readers. Sorry.
Wow. Congratulations! It was 19k when EchoSign electronic signature was first profiled in early 2006. I liked the look a tiny bit better in 2006 however.
truly freaking amazing-congrtas
Thanks for supporting a full-text feed!!
Congrats..
Where do you get the most comments: @ techcrunch or friendfeed or twitter or ?
What is the world’s most-subscribed-to RSS feed?
Engadget to my knowledge
Great work, Michael. And you should know that I do click through from time-to-time, usually to comment. But I sincerely appreciate the full feed.
Congratulations Michael. That’s a terrific achievement for a great site. Keep up the good work!
This is what journalism is supposed to do…Educate the people. My knowledge has risen at least 10 fold.
Thanks Mike
P.S. One thing I hate about TechCrunch make me less productive at work.
Thank you!
Congratulations to Mike and the Tech Crunch team. This is a truly fantastic landmark you’ve hit and a testament to your hard work and dedication. Keep moving forward!
Awesome!!!!Congratulations and All the best to Mike and Tech Crunch.
Yours is the first blog I read every morning.
Here is wishing you for 1 billion readers sooooooon!!!
I believe it should be a big Thank You Tech Crunch! I’ve been able to consolidate my feed in the Tech News category to just 3.
Waaooo….
Felicitaciones!!
Felicitaciones desde Lima, Perú!!!
i was wondering if yall was ever going to notice i have been always telling myself was it going to happen but i guess the new design and being one of the best tech blogs out there. I noticed that its a boring web when there is nothing new going on at techcrunch. That TC50 was killing with all the updates. it was such a pain to see all that was going on out there while i just sit here and just watch. Im just realizing in a very profound way that It Ain’t where you from its where you at. And new orleans is not where its at.
Congrats!
Thank you Mike =)
Congrats guys for pulling it off! Techcrunch is one site that I love to read with my first cup of coffee for the day!:-) Keep up the good work.
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