RSS Spending Soars Despite Low Perceived Adoption Rates

JupiterResearch: 63 percent of large companies plan to syndicate content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) by the end of 2006. Currently only 29 percent of large companies (with more than $50 million in annual revenues) publish content via RSS.

The growth of RSS is also highlighted by the fact that 48 percent of current RSS publishers are spending $250,000 or more to deploy and manage syndicated content. However, JupiterResearch has also found that spending at this level is inconsistent with the current rate of adoption.

Despite low perceived adoption rates and definitive measurement standards, site operators are increasing spending on RSS deployments,. In order to maximize their investment in RSS, site operators should leverage emerging tools and technologies specifically tailored to RSS.

RSS users are heavier consumers of online media than traditional online users, and thus represent a prime demographic for online media publishers. Marketers can either modify their RSS feeds to individual users through individualized RSS (IRSS) or create traditional broadcast feeds. IRSS feeds are subscriber-centric and created in much the same way as targeted e-mail campaigns, including all of the measurement benefits associated with e-mail marketing.

The primary challenge to greater adoption is a lack of experience with RSS and resources to deploy it,. However, recent offerings from e-mail service providers (ESP) and RSS service providers are lowering the barrier for feed management, deployment and measurement. RSS Comes of Age: Budgeting, Deploying, and Measuring RSS

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