Let’s face it, Game Over, nothing stands up to Google Reader. Last time I checked Feed Reader stats on my personal blog, I could observe Bloglines decline, but it still had significant market share, almost equal to up-and-coming Google:
Three years later Google Reader has 52% share, while Bloglines shrank to a pitiful 13%. Runner ups are Netvibes and NewsGator, the rest are all tiny 1-2%.
But this does not show the real picture. Changing feed readers is a bit of a pain, so using a relatively “old” blog (OMG, have I just said my blog was old?) skews the stats towards the declining legacy readers. Checking out CloudAve, a half-year old baby shows what readers really choose today:
There is only one dominant reader, and that’s clearly Google with 68%. The next runner-up, NewsGator is a fraction of that, 7%, while once reigning Bloglines has puny 4%.
Game Over. There Can Be Only One.
Update: Latest round of Reader improvements
Update (8/8): Louis Gray: RSS Is Doing Great, But Stand-Alone Feed Readers Are Collapsing.
I’m curious if/where ‘My Yahoo’ is included in your figures….with Yahoo! still owning such a large share of the web-based email market I would have thought many of its users (like me) would use the reader capabilities made available in the My Yahoo customized portal.
Andy Groh
Andy,
“My Yahoo” is lumped into the “Other” category, but I’ve looked it up for you.
CloudAve: 0.4% – and you are a significant % of it
Zoliblog: 0.7%
I vaguely remember trying to use My Yahoo RSS reader 4-5 years ago and it was clumsy… never looked back.
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