RSS Feeds Monetization Tools: A Mini-Guide

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. RSS Feeds Monetization Tools: A Mini-Guide
Advertising is slowly becoming more pervasive in the world of RSS syndication, which means the efforts to clamp down on syndication and sharing can't be far behind. This article lists a number of companies offering tools that create ads in RSS feeds. What the article doesn't mention is that feed readers (such as Blogline and Google reader) have started putting the number of subscribers into their browser information when they access your feed; this means that feed owners can look at their logs and add up the number of people subscribe to the feed. More...