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It's not that surprising. I love Reddit, but it's probably pretty hard to sell legimitate ads on a site that serves hardcore pornography and which is frequente

It's not that surprising. I love Reddit, but it's probably pretty hard to sell legimitate ads on a site that serves hardcore pornography and which is frequented by people who vocally denounce advertising and commercialism in all forms.

pygy_ 15y ago
You can get your ads served in selected subreddits. Regarding your second point, you may have to personalize it in order to run a successful campaign on Reddit, but the returns can be good and manifold, especially for a startup. See http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/my-duck-duck-go-reddit-ad-by-the-numbers.html http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/my-duck-duck-go-... for a detailed report of a Reddit ad campaign.
- djb_hackernews 15y ago
  And see my detailed report of a reddit ad campaign directed at a specific subreddit. http://impromptudo.tumblr.com/post/3984362470/my-impromptudo-reddit-ad-by-the-numbers http://impromptudo.tumblr.com/post/3984362470/my-impromptudo...
rmc 15y ago
Yes, reddit is mostly anti-advertising, but it is not a 'hardcore pornography' site. Vast Majority of people don't go there only to look at porn.
- pbhjpbhj 15y ago
  >Vast Majority of people don't go there only to look at porn. // So Playboy isn't a porn mag then?
  - rmc 15y ago
    False analyogy. Playboy is a pornography magazine. But reddit is not playboy. Just look at the front page of reddit if you're logged in, no pornography. Create an account, no porn, etc. If reddit is a pornography site, then so is google.
    - pbhjpbhj 15y ago
      I was challenging the poor argument of the parent with an extreme example of mixed content. A newspaper, for example, will generally have no hardcore porn in it. Reddit is a hardcore porn site, it's just it's not exclusively a hardcore porn site. Indeed in part it appears to skirt illegality without blushing. Advertisers do have problems with advertising on such sites I'm sure. Presumably you and the parent would argue that if you advertised in Playboy next to a feature (I don't actually know the layout, I've just heard they have non-porn articles) then you wouldn't be advertising in a porn magazine?
- evilduck 15y ago
  /r/spacedicks. Given the diversity of there subreddits, I don't think you can claim reddit "is" anything. Reddit is a hardcore pornography site if you want it to be.
  - rmc 15y ago
    Yes, there's loads of niche subreddits, some of which are pornographic. However they are in an minority, most people don't use reddit for porn, ergo reddit is not a porno site.

pygy_ 15y ago

You can get your ads served in selected subreddits. Regarding your second point, you may have to personalize it in order to run a successful campaign on Reddit, but the returns can be good and manifold, especially for a startup. See http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/my-duck-duck-go-reddit-ad-by-the-numbers.html http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/my-duck-duck-go-... for a detailed report of a Reddit ad campaign.

djb_hackernews 15y ago
And see my detailed report of a reddit ad campaign directed at a specific subreddit. http://impromptudo.tumblr.com/post/3984362470/my-impromptudo-reddit-ad-by-the-numbers http://impromptudo.tumblr.com/post/3984362470/my-impromptudo...

rmc 15y ago

Yes, reddit is mostly anti-advertising, but it is not a 'hardcore pornography' site. Vast Majority of people don't go there only to look at porn.

pbhjpbhj 15y ago
>Vast Majority of people don't go there only to look at porn. // So Playboy isn't a porn mag then?
- rmc 15y ago
  False analyogy. Playboy is a pornography magazine. But reddit is not playboy. Just look at the front page of reddit if you're logged in, no pornography. Create an account, no porn, etc. If reddit is a pornography site, then so is google.
  - pbhjpbhj 15y ago
    I was challenging the poor argument of the parent with an extreme example of mixed content. A newspaper, for example, will generally have no hardcore porn in it. Reddit is a hardcore porn site, it's just it's not exclusively a hardcore porn site. Indeed in part it appears to skirt illegality without blushing. Advertisers do have problems with advertising on such sites I'm sure. Presumably you and the parent would argue that if you advertised in Playboy next to a feature (I don't actually know the layout, I've just heard they have non-porn articles) then you wouldn't be advertising in a porn magazine?
evilduck 15y ago
/r/spacedicks. Given the diversity of there subreddits, I don't think you can claim reddit "is" anything. Reddit is a hardcore pornography site if you want it to be.
- rmc 15y ago
  Yes, there's loads of niche subreddits, some of which are pornographic. However they are in an minority, most people don't use reddit for porn, ergo reddit is not a porno site.