Costolo said that a major challenge for RSS
advertising is the diversity of software used to
read feeds.
"Unlike in the browser world, where supporting
three or four browsers gets you 99.99 percent of
browsers," he said, "in the feed reader world,
we've catalogued over 640 of these things."
In fact, FeedBurner supports more than 300
different RSS clients that have more than 1000
users each. Costolo said there are many more
clients that are used by a few hundred people.
Costolo said FeedBurner also is working with
Kanoodle, an ad network that provides search
keyword, contextual and behavioral targeting.
Kanoodle recently began serving ads into blogs
published via Six Apart's hosted TypePad blogging
service.
Costolo said the ad- and feed-serving systems
needed to be adjusted for feeds so that when an ad
is rotated it doesn't appear as updated content.