diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f1e773f..21484cb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 
 # Changelog for rabtap
 
+## v1.14 (2019-02-28)
+
+* change: in subscribe mode, the consumer will use non-exclusive mode,
+          allowing multiple consumers on the same queue. 
+
 ## v1.13 (2019-02-26)
 
 * updated go version to 1.12, dropping `dep` module manager
diff --git a/cmd/rabtap/cmd_subscribe.go b/cmd/rabtap/cmd_subscribe.go
index 57cdba7..11adeae 100644
--- a/cmd/rabtap/cmd_subscribe.go
+++ b/cmd/rabtap/cmd_subscribe.go
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ func cmdSubscribe(cmd CmdSubscribeArg) error {
 	// this channel is used to decouple message receiving threads
 	// with the main thread, which does the actual message processing
 	messageChannel := make(rabtap.TapChannel)
-	subscriber := rabtap.NewAmqpSubscriber(cmd.amqpURI, cmd.tlsConfig, log)
+	subscriber := rabtap.NewAmqpSubscriber(cmd.amqpURI, false, cmd.tlsConfig, log)
 	defer subscriber.Close()
 	go subscriber.EstablishSubscription(cmd.queue, messageChannel)
 	return messageReceiveLoop(messageChannel, cmd.messageReceiveFunc, cmd.signalChannel)
diff --git a/pkg/subscribe.go b/pkg/subscribe.go
index 7bd0d57..1d1555b 100644
--- a/pkg/subscribe.go
+++ b/pkg/subscribe.go
@@ -14,13 +14,15 @@ import (
 type AmqpSubscriber struct {
 	connection *AmqpConnector
 	logger     logrus.StdLogger
+	exclusive  bool
 }
 
 // NewAmqpSubscriber returns a new AmqpSubscriber object associated with the
 // RabbitMQ broker denoted by the uri parameter.
-func NewAmqpSubscriber(uri string, tlsConfig *tls.Config, logger logrus.StdLogger) *AmqpSubscriber {
+func NewAmqpSubscriber(uri string, exclusive bool, tlsConfig *tls.Config, logger logrus.StdLogger) *AmqpSubscriber {
 	return &AmqpSubscriber{
 		connection: NewAmqpConnector(uri, tlsConfig, logger),
+		exclusive:  exclusive,
 		logger:     logger}
 }
 
@@ -110,8 +112,8 @@ func (s *AmqpSubscriber) consumeMessages(conn *amqp.Connection,
 	msgs, err := ch.Consume(
 		queueName,
 		"__rabtap-consumer-"+uuid.NewV4().String()[:8], // TODO param
-		true,  // auto-ack
-		true,  // exclusive
+		true, // auto-ack
+		s.exclusive,
 		false, // no-local - unsupported
 		false, // wait
 		nil,   // args
diff --git a/pkg/subscribe_integration_test.go b/pkg/subscribe_integration_test.go
index e6de851..34994df 100644
--- a/pkg/subscribe_integration_test.go
+++ b/pkg/subscribe_integration_test.go
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ func TestSubscribe(t *testing.T) {
 
 	finishChan := make(chan int)
 
-	subscriber := NewAmqpSubscriber(testcommon.IntegrationURIFromEnv(), &tls.Config{}, log.New(os.Stderr, "", log.LstdFlags))
+	subscriber := NewAmqpSubscriber(testcommon.IntegrationURIFromEnv(), false, &tls.Config{}, log.New(os.Stderr, "", log.LstdFlags))
 	defer subscriber.Close()
 	resultChannel := make(TapChannel)
 	go subscriber.EstablishSubscription(queueName, resultChannel)
diff --git a/pkg/tap.go b/pkg/tap.go
index 40e14e3..e1dc5fd 100644
--- a/pkg/tap.go
+++ b/pkg/tap.go
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ type AmqpTap struct {
 // broker denoted by the uri parameter.
 func NewAmqpTap(uri string, tlsConfig *tls.Config, logger logrus.StdLogger) *AmqpTap {
 	return &AmqpTap{
-		AmqpSubscriber: NewAmqpSubscriber(uri, tlsConfig, logger)}
+		AmqpSubscriber: NewAmqpSubscriber(uri, true /* exclusive */, tlsConfig, logger)}
 }
 
 func getTapExchangeNameForExchange(exchange, postfix string) string {