The New York Times has an article about ads in RSS, "Marketers See Opportunity as a Web Tool Gains Users [1]" (printer friendly [2]) which opens with the line "THE fledgling R.S.S. business is starting to attract some attention from those catering to Internet advertisers." (R.S.S? They mean RSS.)
Dammit, it's finally here - just as we''ve been chatting about it. We wondered How long will RSS be ad-free? [3] back in Feb 2004, and saw inklings of RSS with ads? [4] later that year where Wired reported on more feeds with ads [5] and we found more bloggers dropping ad-filled-feeds. I and many other bloggers have been listing the pro's and con's on RSS and ads in them in the e-book that brags to be everything you wanted to know about RSS but were afraid to ask. [6]. In April this year Google adsense finally started beta testing ads in RSS feeds [7], even though they kicked blogger Pentdego [8] off their program for doing the exact same thing last year. With Google, Pheedo, Feedster and Yahoo offering ads for feeds I guess it's safe to say now that RSS ads are here to stay.
Now, who'll build the first RSS ad blocker? Any takers?
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