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November 23, 2005

RSS users visit 3 times more news sites as non-users

(Posted by francois to: interesting links )

According to a recent Nielsen report:

"RSS users are significantly more engaged in online news than non-users, visiting an average of 10.6 news sites compared with 3.4 news sites for non-users...Not only do RSS users visit more news Web sites than non-users, they also visit those sites more frequently. RSS users visited the top 20 news Web sites nearly three times as often as non-users and all other news Web sites four times as often. This means that sites outside of the top 20 properties may be among the greatest beneficiaries of RSS. "
Another interesting tidbit is that among the RSS users who understood the technology, 78% were male...

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Yep. I posted a few great links on RSS here:

http://thebrandbuilder.blogspot.com/2005/11/rss-20.html

Posted by: olivier blanchard at November 27, 2005 2:22 PM

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