No hard numbers, but here are some estimates: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-reader-data-points.html http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/

No hard numbers, but here are some estimates: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-reader-data-points.html http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-reader-data-... While CNN and Engadget had 24M and 7M RSS subscribers (which include Google Reader), the numbers drop quickly, with the 3rd one having 1.7M (NYT). Also, apparently the Google Reader Android app had <5M downloads at time of shutdown. Given that distribution and how fast it drops, I'd expect Reader to have had a couple million daily active users at time of shutdown, a tiny drop in the Internet & Google ocean. And you can go around and ask people who don't work in tech: nobody will have heard of Google Reader.