At least 2 of the popular news aggregation services (Feedly, Inoreader, Digg Reader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader) will use their RSS aggregation apps as their main source of revenue, sustaining their business.

Created by Emmanuel M. Smith on 2017-05-26; known on 2021-05-02; judged right by stepan on 2021-07-10.

• Emmanuel M. Smith estimated 95% on 2017-05-26
• Emmanuel M. Smith changed the deadline from “on 2021-05-01” and changed their prediction from “RSS (or a similar successor, not email newsletters), via Feedly like services, will still be used for article/post aggregation.” on 2017-05-26
• Emmanuel M. Smith changed the deadline from “on 2021-05-01” and changed their prediction from “RSS (or a similar successor, not email newsletters), via more than one paid for Feedly like services, will still be used for article/post aggregation.” on 2017-05-26
• Emmanuel M. Smith estimated 97% and said “Feedly, NewsBlur, Innoreader, etc. currently have premium subscription models which offer additional RSS features. It’s unlikely that this would change in the next year.” on 2020-02-15
• stepan estimated 99% on 2021-04-30
• stepan   judged this prediction right on 2021-07-10.