Feedspot review

Feedspot combines an RSS reader with directories of blogs, podcasts and influencers, plus a database of media contacts. The reader brings blogs, podcasts, news sites, YouTube channels and RSS feeds into one place. Its additional RSS tools include a feed combiner, brand monitoring, embeddable widgets and combined newsletters.

For outreach, Feedspot says its media database contains 250,000 active, verified contacts. Users can search for contacts and export lists of bloggers, podcasters and YouTubers. The creator directory organizes publications and influencers by niche, while publishers can submit blog and podcast listings for free.

The paid Business plans are for promoting listings, not a general-purpose subscription to the reader or contact database. They charge per list per month, with different sponsorship positions and visibility options. The pricing page says annual billing saves up to 25% compared with monthly billing.

Feedspot brings several discovery and reading tasks together: users can follow different kinds of publications in one reader, browse niche directories, and search or export media contacts. That combination may suit a small PR or marketing team that wants to build an outreach list without stitching together separate discovery tools. The homepage advertises 250,000 active, verified contacts, though that figure is Feedspot’s claim, not an independent measure of database quality.

The free publisher listing gives bloggers and podcasters a way to appear in the directory without buying a promotion plan. Paid plans add clearer placement options: Business offers a 12th sponsorship position, Business Plus a 6th position, and Business Pro the 1st position. The higher tiers also list more button options and more frequent follower-count refreshes.

Reddit feedback is mixed, but not uniformly negative. One commenter said Feedspot provided a nonprofit with a media-contact list that included contact details and social links, saving time. Another reported getting 150 contacts after asking for one. Those are individual accounts, not a guarantee of what a buyer will receive.

The promotion pricing is easy to misread as a flat subscription: each plan is priced per list per month, and the plans cover 1–10 lists. Business costs $19 monthly or $14.25 with annual billing; Business Plus is $29 or $21.75 annually; Business Pro is $99 or $74.25 annually. Additional lists are billed separately, but the pricing page does not publish their per-list price. The listed caps also differ: Business includes up to three high-resolution images and four button options; Plus has 12 button options; Pro has 17. Follower counts refresh monthly on Plus and weekly on Pro.

The pricing information lists no free plan or trial, although publisher listings are free. Reddit users report concerns about unsolicited promotion, requests for backlinks, list errors and little or no referral traffic. These are anecdotes, not proof that every listing performs poorly, but they make it sensible to ask what a paid placement is expected to deliver. Feedspot’s advertised contact count also does not tell buyers how current or relevant a particular list will be.

Feedspot’s listed plans are priced per list, per month: Business is $19 monthly or $14.25 with annual billing; Business Plus is $29 or $21.75; Business Pro is $99 or $74.25. The pricing page says annual billing saves up to 25%. These are promotion plans for bloggers, not a clearly priced subscription for the RSS reader or contact database.

The tier jump is worth checking: Business Plus costs $10 more per list monthly than Business, while Pro jumps another $70. Higher tiers buy better sponsorship placement and more visibility, plus added options such as more buttons and more frequent follower-count refreshes. Additional lists are billed separately, but the page does not publish their price. Ask for the total before committing if you need several lists; the per-list rate can change the bill. There is no free plan listed. Bloggers and podcasters can list a publication for free, but that is not the same as free access to paid promotion.

Feedspot brings blogs, podcasts, news sites, YouTube channels and RSS feeds into one reader, alongside creator listings and media-contact search. Before moving, inventory the feeds and contact lists your team relies on, then confirm how to bring them in. The published information does not document feed import, reading-history migration or export of saved RSS content. It does say users can export lists of blogger, podcaster and YouTuber media contacts; that does not establish that other data can be exported.

Treat migration as something to verify with Feedspot before you depend on it. Ask what formats it accepts and what you can take with you if you leave. The published published material includes no Reddit posts or comments, so we can’t responsibly attribute common reasons for leaving to Reddit users. The clearest decision points here are whether Feedspot covers your reading and research needs, and whether its per-list promotion pricing works for your budget.