TLDR

News aggregators used to be like the news stand where they showed headlines and redirected audience to the website

News aggregators have come a long way from just indexing RSS/Atom feeds to become standalone services that offer more than just hyperlinks and redirecting audience to source sites. The modern news aggregator services are able to render preview, show headlines, small video footage and cover images which help the reader to skim through and decide later which they will dive deeper and explore in details. The learning is that, its not only the news and aggregators have evolved but the readers too. Now a days a majority of the population don't go to source sites at all, they stick to the preview and are happy about that limited content in many cases. Still these services attract a lot of audience and have a major contribution to the system. Lets see who are these major players capable of delivering value.

Global News Aggregators with Dominance:

1. Feedly

One of the most well-known news aggregator services online is called Feedly. It enables you to make your own news stream with the most recent articles from your preferred publishers. You can subscribe to articles on a range of topics using this platform. Their content suggestion system allows you to search for new websites based on topics. You can manually add the blogs or news sites you choose. Both a free and a premium version of Feedly are accessible. You can create up to three individual feeds and subscribe to 100 sources with the free plan. Feedly can be used in a browser, downloaded as a mobile app, or added as a browser extension.They also offer personalisation features using their AI recommending robot named Leo, which helps in classification and sorting important news first.

2. Google News

Google News is a potent news aggregator that draws on Google's advanced search algorithms, artificial intelligence, and individual users' search histories. By default, it presents you with the top news stories relevant to your location. It provides the most recent information on business, technology, entertainment, sports, science, and health news on a local, regional, and global scale. To personalize your feed, you can store topics, sources, and searches. You may use Google News, as a free news aggregator, on the web, Android, and iOS devices. The interesting fact about Google News is that with AMP enabled in news website and based on metrics like engagement time and ikes, Google news brings up and recommends news updates from your publication every time a relevant post is made.

3. Flipboard

You can build your own content feed on the top blog aggregator website Flipboard based on your interests. There are many different themes covered, such as business news, technology news, travel, politics news, beauty, and more. Because Flipboard has feeds for almost all of the cities in the globe, you may also use it as a local news aggregator. With an exquisite magazine-style design and interactive features for liking, commenting on, and sharing material across your social network profiles, Flipboard has something for everyone. The best scenario for using Flipboard is that when you have a digital magazine interface which goes well with the application layout. You also get to compile stories and build a magazine view out of them and share it with others.

The Indian News Aggregators:

In India the news aggregation market is dominated by two major players, Daily Hunt and In shorts with each having 10 million to 100 million downloads in app stores. Daily-Hunt serves content in 14 Indian languages, In shorts in English and Hindi. Daily-Hunt serves content in 14 Indian languages, In-shorts in English and Hindi.Though when it comes to monetize our content with these aggregators, as per Neiman Lab reports, they are still figuring out a way like revenue sharing and ads. It might be a long way until a sustainable system that works for the India Digital Publishing Ecosystem. Glance has been a new entrant with an innovative model to show news in Lock-screens, Often misunderstood with Ads slew in-between news articles. the rotational wallpapers and small captions allow the users to read the headline and reach the entire story directly from the lock-screen of Android mobiles. Modern browsers such as UC Mobile, Opera-mini and even Firefox using their acquired bookmarking service Pocket are able to present interesting news to their customers direct from Home-screen. With payment models and subscription, these could be a place where promoted content and hot news can be displayed to get wider traction.

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