For most teams, one email at a fixed time works best: the same few sections every week, nothing padded. Teams that live in Slack or Teams may be better served by a channel post. You can write it by hand, automate it with Feedly's or Inoreader's team digests or a Zapier RSS-to-email workflow, or have Avos write and send it.
This guide is for team leads, founders and analysts asked to "keep everyone up to speed on the market" who would rather not spend Friday afternoon on it. Full disclosure: Avos is our product. Facts about the other tools come from their own pricing and help pages, linked below.
What makes a team news digest worth opening?
Three things, whichever tool you use:
- A fixed shape. The same sections every week, each answering one question, such as what competitors did.
- A short length. Five good items beat twenty links.
- A reason to care. One line on why a story matters to your team beats a summary.
What are the ways to send a team a weekly news digest?
Checked on 6 November 2026 against Slack's help page for the RSS app, Feedly's Market Intelligence pricing and guide to automated newsletters, Inoreader's pricing and email digests pages, and Zapier's pricing, digest help and RSS digest template.
| Option | What you get | How it reaches the team | Cost | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manual roundup in Slack or Notion | Whatever someone reads and writes up; Slack's RSS app can post new feed items to a channel as raw material | A Slack post or a Notion page | The tools you already pay for, plus someone's time every week | Small teams with a natural curator |
| Feedly Market Intelligence | Automated newsletters from team boards, AI feeds and team folders, with AI summaries and your branding | Email on the weekdays and time you set; review and test before sending | Standard plan $1,600 a month billed annually, up to 10 seats | Market intelligence teams |
| Inoreader | Email digests from feeds, folders, tags, saved articles and team channels, with optional AI summaries | Email on your schedule; preview, hold or send now | Included in Team plans, or an add-on to Pro (Pro is €6.67 a month billed annually) | Teams that already read in Inoreader |
| Zapier RSS to email | New feed items collected by Digest by Zapier and emailed in one batch | Email daily, weekly or monthly | Free plan has 100 tasks a month and two-step Zaps; Professional from $19.99 a month billed annually | A plain list of links from a few feeds |
| Avos News | One designed briefing written from the sources you pick, a section per question, filtered in plain words | Email to the newsletter's audience on the weekdays and time you choose, and on the web | Free Starter plan; issues use credits, and your plan sets how many recipients, see pricing | A finished weekly digest without a curator |
What does a manual Slack or Notion roundup really cost?
Nothing in software and a lot in attention. One person posts the week's best links with a line on each. Slack's RSS app, on all plans, can supply raw material: run /feed in a channel and new items from a site's feed post there.
It works while the curator has time and taste, and the commentary is the best part. It stops when that person goes on holiday.
Do Feedly or Inoreader send team digests?
Yes, both do.
Feedly sends automated newsletters from your team boards, AI feeds and team folders, on the days and time you choose, to individual addresses, a distribution list or a subscription form. You can review each issue first (reorder, remove or add articles, personalize the intro) and add AI-generated summaries and your branding. Its Market Intelligence Standard plan costs $1,600 a month billed annually, for up to 10 seats and 5 newsletter templates.
Inoreader builds email digests from feeds, folders, tags, saved articles and team channels, and Inoreader Intelligence can summarize a section, the issue or each article. Any address can receive one after accepting an invitation. Before sending you can preview, reorder, send now or hold. Digests come with Team plans, or as an add-on that turns Pro into a Custom plan.
Both shine when your team already reads in the tool. Our comparisons of Avos and Feedly and Avos and Inoreader go deeper.
Can Zapier or an RSS-to-email workflow do it for free?
Close to free, with work. Zapier's template chains RSS by Zapier (new items in several feeds), Digest by Zapier (collect them) and an email step that sends the batch daily, weekly or monthly.
The catches: Zapier's pricing page lists two-step Zaps on Free, and the template has three steps. Its email step sends from a zapiermail.com address, capped at 5 emails a day on Free. And what arrives is a list of feed items, with nothing ranked or filtered. More options: turn your RSS feeds into a daily email briefing.
How do you set up a weekly team digest in Avos?
You describe the digest, the AI editor builds the sections, and Avos researches, writes and emails each issue on schedule.
- Describe the digest. "A weekly digest for our sales team on the European heat pump market. Competitors A, B and C, regulation, funding rounds, and a short paragraph on what it means for us." Or start from the Tech, AI & Business template.
- Keep one section per question. The editor adds the feeds you name: a news search per competitor, a competitor's newsroom as RSS, regulators' feeds from the feed directory, the Funding rounds feed. An AI section can draft the "what it means for us" paragraph from your prompt, but AI commentary can be generic or wrong: have someone read it before anyone acts on it.
- Write the filters. One or two plain sentences per section, such as "launches, pricing changes and executive moves". They stay visible in each section's settings.
- Set the format and voice. Headlines with descriptions suit most sections. Pick a professional tone and the language.
- Schedule it weekly. Pick the weekday, the send time and the timezone, for example Monday at 8:00. Set each section's timeframe to the last 7 days so an issue covers exactly one week.
- Make it look like yours. Pick a layout (newsprint, tiles or outline); "Match a website" applies your company site's brand colors, free.
- Check an issue, then add the team. Generate an issue in the editor to read it first. Then paste your colleagues' email addresses into the newsletter's Audience tab: every issue goes to them as well as to you, and they can unsubscribe at any time. Your plan sets how many recipients a newsletter can have. Issues to a private audience go out at the scheduled time with no approval step, so the AI paragraph reaches readers when it reaches you.
Turning the audience on gives the newsletter a page anyone with the link can read, handy for sharing an issue in Slack, since Avos delivers by email and on the web. Keep confidential notes out of it.
Track your industry and competitors has a full section-by-section layout, and for events that can't wait until Monday, a news alert emails you as they happen.
How does an Avos digest stay short every week?
Through what it leaves out. The same story from several outlets should arrive once, and a section is designed to skip stories it ran in recent issues or that another section already printed, though a reworded story can slip through. A section with nothing new is left out instead of padded.
Readers can rate each issue from 1 to 5; you see their ratings and notes, never who gave them. The AI editor sees recent ratings and suggests one change when they point at a problem, but changes nothing until you agree.
Which setup fits your team?
| Setup | Team size | Budget | Setup effort | Approval before sending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manual roundup | Small, with a willing curator | Free in tools, paid in someone's time | Low at first, then work every week | Yes: a person writes each issue |
| Feedly or Inoreader | Teams already reading in the tool | From an Inoreader add-on to a Feedly enterprise plan | Moderate: boards, folders, a template | Yes: review, reorder or hold each issue |
| Zapier or RSS-to-email | Any size, if a list of links is enough | Free to a paid Zapier plan | Moderate: build and maintain the workflow | No: it sends what the feeds give it |
| Avos | Small and mid-size teams; your plan sets the recipients | Free plan; paid plans on pricing | Low: describe it in chat, then tune it | No approval step for a private audience |
When is another option the better choice?
- Your team lives in Slack or Teams. Avos sends email and publishes on the web; it doesn't post into chat, though you can share an issue's link there.
- The commentary is the point. If your team reads the digest for one person's judgment, keep the manual roundup and use a tool to collect the links.
- You run shared research. Team boards, annotations and shared folders belong to Feedly and Inoreader.
FAQ
What's the easiest way to send a weekly industry news digest to my team?
Use a tool that sends it on a schedule, so it doesn't depend on one person's Friday. Feedly and Inoreader build it from what your team reads; Avos researches, writes and emails the whole issue.
Do my colleagues need an Avos account to get the digest?
No. You add their email addresses to the newsletter's audience, and every issue goes to them. They can unsubscribe at any time.
Can I review each issue before it goes to the team?
Not as an approval step. You can generate and read an issue in the editor at any time, but issues to a private audience send on schedule; Avos's review step belongs to its publisher mode for public newsletters. Feedly's and Inoreader's digests let you hold each issue.
How much does a weekly team digest cost with Avos?
Avos's Starter plan is free, and each issue uses credits from the plan's monthly allowance. Plans differ in credits and in how many recipients a newsletter can have; the pricing page has the details.