By on July 3, 2007

Google Starts Giving Away FeedBurner Upgrades

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I’m sure many Feedburner users felt butterflies when they learned that Google had acquired the company. What would happen to the service we so dearly love, would we get to keep the features we wanted, would we have to put up with AdWords in order to maintain a free service?

Well, the first changes are here and they’re all great news for FeedBurner users. First up, you can now get FeedBurner’s MyBrand for free! If you’re not familiar, MyBrand is the service that lets you use your own domain name for your RSS feed URL, instead of Feedburner’s. It used to cost a few dollars each month, and now it’s free for everyone! The sign-up process is a little archaic – send an email and request the upgrade, but still, it’s free!

The second announced change is the option to test Feedburner Stats Pro for free for 15 days forever!.

More information at GOS.


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12 comments on “Google Starts Giving Away FeedBurner Upgrades”

  1. Jim Kukral Says:

    July 3rd, 2007 at 10:28 am

    Sucks if you’ve already paid for it :(

  2. Owen Cutajar Says:

    July 3rd, 2007 at 11:33 am

    Thanks for the tip. Off to request it.

  3. Mark Barrera Says:

    July 3rd, 2007 at 12:20 pm

    Hopefully they will just decide to give away all of the advanced features for free instead of just the 15 day trial. I’ll keep my fingers crossed…

  4. Mark Barrera Says:

    July 3rd, 2007 at 12:27 pm

    Nevermind – Looks like they have already done this!

  5. Jeremy Luebke Says:

    July 3rd, 2007 at 12:35 pm

    The MyBrand thing is a huge deal. Now everyone can own their feed instead of FeedBurner owning it.

    Man I sure wish I could afford to own the world and give it away for free in exchange for participation in my ad network ;)

  6. Traci Says:

    July 3rd, 2007 at 12:53 pm

    Hi Andy –

    There is no longer a 15-day trial since the FeedBurner Stats Pro service is now free. Let me know if you’re still seeing that language anywhere on the site – we may have missed it.

    Cheers,
    Traci

  7. Webmaster Money Says:

    July 3rd, 2007 at 4:33 pm

    This is good. Google just needs to reward users who stayed with them.

  8. Steven Bradley Says:

    July 3rd, 2007 at 4:44 pm

    Nice improvements. More free stuff from Google to keep us all tied to Google. I have to admit though they do give away some useful things.

  9. Brian Chappell Says:

    July 3rd, 2007 at 6:01 pm

    Am I understanding this correctly. Instead of http://feeds.feedburner.com/marketing-pilgrim it will be www.marketingpilgrim.com/feed

  10. Andy Beal Says:

    July 3rd, 2007 at 8:04 pm

    @Brian – I believe you can set it whatever you want

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