Feedly
Summary
A news aggregator application for various platforms. It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize and share with others.
Type of organisation: Privately-owned company (or group)
Market share: One of the leading products (#3-7)
Pricing: Free-$18/user/month
Factors driving pricing: Additional features
Skills needed to set-up: Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it)
Skills needed to use: Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it)
Requires audience sign-in to use: Yes, sign-in compulsory
Type of organisation: Privately-owned company (or group)
Market share: One of the leading products (#3-7)
Pricing: Free-$18/user/month
Factors driving pricing: Additional features
Skills needed to set-up: Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it)
Skills needed to use: Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it)
Requires audience sign-in to use: Yes, sign-in compulsory
Pros
Open Source alternatives available
Transparent pricing model
Plain English TOS
Allows data export
Allows data deletion
Cons
Unclear data policies
Lacks accessibility statement
Does not share diversity data
Full Product Data Collection
Data collected January-February 2020
| Product name | Feedly |
| Product URL | https://feedly.com/ |
| Parent organisation | N/A |
| Workflow category | Collaboration & editing |
| Date product founded | 2008 |
| Product description | A news aggregator application for various platforms. It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize and share with others. |
| What type of company or organisation is the product owned by? | Privately-owned company (or group) |
| Is the company profit-making? | Cannot determine |
| How is this product funded? | VC investment |
| What market share does the tool have? | One of the leading products (#3-7) |
| Is there an Open Source alternative in this product space? | Yes. Tiny Tiny RSS, QuiteRSS, NewsBlur, Liferea, RSS Owl, Commafeed, Miniflux, Feedbin |
| When did the company last release new features? | Jun-2019, Leo – an AI research assistant |
| Have they shared details of the product roadmap? | No |
| Is there talk of the product raising further investment? | No |
| Is there talk of the product being acquired? | No |
| Have there been any newsworthy business issues or challenges in the last 12 months? | No |
| Is there a pricing model listed on the website? | Yes |
| How clear & transparent is this pricing model? | Very: full pricing listed |
| What is the range of prices offered? | Free Pro $6/month Pro+ $8.25/month Business – $18/user/month |
| What factors drive higher pricing? | Additional features |
| What skills are needed to get this tool set up & usable? | Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it) |
| What skills are needed to USE this tool day-to-day? | Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it) |
| Does this tool use proprietary file formats for saving documents & outputs? | Defaults to common open standard file formats |
| Is the product reliant on 3rd-party APIs or interoperability to function? | No |
| Have there been any newsworthy technical issues in the last 3 years? | No |
| How clear is the Terms of Service for users (i.e. publishing customers)? | Simplified, plain English TOS |
| Does the product have a data collection & usage policy on its website? (Can be a GDPR statement)? | No (or cannot find) |
| Is their data policy “GDPR everywhere”? | No GDPR policy information available |
| Does the product require your audience to sign-in to use it? | Yes, sign-in compulsory |
| IF SIGN IN REQUIRED: Does audience sign-in use 3rd party platforms? | Yes. Twitter authentication, Microsoft authentication, Google authentication, Facebook authentication |
| Does the public product website mention how to export or transfer your data to another service? | Yes: Audience can data export |
| Does the public product website mention how to delete your data? | Yes: for both publisher and audience data |
| Have there been any newsworthy security breaches with this product in the last 3 years? | No |
| Does the company have an accessibility statement on its website? | No / cannot find |
| Does the company release information on the diversity of the workforce? | No |