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Ask HN: Advertising on Reddit - US/CA/UK Credit Card required

8 points by jcfrei 16y ago

Now - I know some off you might consider this totally offtopic, but this is the easiest way I could think off to get this job done. I want to advertise on reddit but I'm a swiss credit card holder. I paypal you 60$ and you spend 50$ on reddit ads - your account, you just send me the stats. I'm posting this here, because I don't know anybody from the US, UK or CA that I could ask and because I trust the HN community. Contact me on johnny@askcue.com Thanks, johnny

jcfrei 16y ago
Ad has been paid and set up. Thanks a lot - this is a great community!
moge 16y ago
I'm curious, what your results were from reddit ads? I did a few days worth of ads a month or so back with mixed results. How did yours go?
- jcfrei 16y ago
  The ad is gonna run on 31/12 and 1/1 - I'll post some of the stats here as soon as I can.
  - moge 16y ago
    that would be awesome, thanks.
- jcfrei 16y ago
  so here you go: Impresions unique total | Clicks u t | click-thru (%) u t 11,488 74,563 243 286 2.12% 0.38% Click-thru is rather poor, but that is probably because an online notepad isn't the hottest thing right now. Anyway, I think the reddit audience still classifies as a rather receptive for these kinds of web apps, you probably would have gotten an even lower click-thru rate on other sites.
  - moge 16y ago
    Thanks for sharing these. I think I had similar numbers on the paid advertising. Then again, I average about 8-10k visitors whenever I or someone else links to my site and, depending on the thread, 1-4k visits if mentioned in a thread. After that, paying for ads for a 2% click seemed kinda silly. My site seems to pop up once a month and, if I wanted, I could find very relevant threads to link from daily. Though typically I only do that at most once a week.
  - moge 16y ago
    16,330 76,30 293 308 1.79% 0.40%
    - jcfrei 16y ago
      thanks. what were you advertising? http://hangwith.me http://hangwith.me? And what kinds of threads - are you posting links on forums?
      - moge 16y ago
        yeah for HangWith. I will post a link to HangWith occasionally along with a comment when I see a post where someone is seeking someone to hangout with or 'forever alone' or something relavant to what the site does. I don't do it very often. Only when I think the link and comment in appropriate and genuine to the thread. However, when I do and, I think, because the link it relative to the OP I always get amazing click-throughs. Again, the key is being genuine and relative to the thread. I've probably generated 20k+ site visits and well over 1k signups from reddit alone from maybe 3-4 comments posted in relavant threads.
        jcfrei 16y ago
        just did the same on some forum I've been a member of for quite a while. the traffic is definitely very good - and I think in general probably a lot better than what you get from reddit.
        16y ago

8 points by jcfrei 16y ago

jcfrei 16y ago

Ad has been paid and set up. Thanks a lot - this is a great community!

moge 16y ago

I'm curious, what your results were from reddit ads? I did a few days worth of ads a month or so back with mixed results. How did yours go?

jcfrei 16y ago
The ad is gonna run on 31/12 and 1/1 - I'll post some of the stats here as soon as I can.
- moge 16y ago
  that would be awesome, thanks.
jcfrei 16y ago
so here you go: Impresions unique total | Clicks u t | click-thru (%) u t 11,488 74,563 243 286 2.12% 0.38% Click-thru is rather poor, but that is probably because an online notepad isn't the hottest thing right now. Anyway, I think the reddit audience still classifies as a rather receptive for these kinds of web apps, you probably would have gotten an even lower click-thru rate on other sites.
- moge 16y ago
  Thanks for sharing these. I think I had similar numbers on the paid advertising. Then again, I average about 8-10k visitors whenever I or someone else links to my site and, depending on the thread, 1-4k visits if mentioned in a thread. After that, paying for ads for a 2% click seemed kinda silly. My site seems to pop up once a month and, if I wanted, I could find very relevant threads to link from daily. Though typically I only do that at most once a week.
- moge 16y ago
  16,330 76,30 293 308 1.79% 0.40%
  - jcfrei 16y ago
    thanks. what were you advertising? http://hangwith.me http://hangwith.me? And what kinds of threads - are you posting links on forums?
    - moge 16y ago
      yeah for HangWith. I will post a link to HangWith occasionally along with a comment when I see a post where someone is seeking someone to hangout with or 'forever alone' or something relavant to what the site does. I don't do it very often. Only when I think the link and comment in appropriate and genuine to the thread. However, when I do and, I think, because the link it relative to the OP I always get amazing click-throughs. Again, the key is being genuine and relative to the thread. I've probably generated 20k+ site visits and well over 1k signups from reddit alone from maybe 3-4 comments posted in relavant threads.
      - jcfrei 16y ago
        just did the same on some forum I've been a member of for quite a while. the traffic is definitely very good - and I think in general probably a lot better than what you get from reddit.
        16y ago