[marcus_holmes]

ah, but newsletters allow you to serve adverts, which is really why RSS "died".

[mmahemoff]

And charging a recurring fee is also viable now in the age of patronage. It's more standard than charging for a premium RSS feed and easy for publishers on various systems to set up.

[captainmuon]

Nothing stops you from putting ads in RSS.

I personally think RSS was killed when social networks shifted to social media...