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Ask HN: The Reddit blackout hasn’t had “significant revenue impact”. What would?
Huffman says the blackout hasn’t had “significant revenue impact” and that the company anticipates that many of the subreddits will come back online by Wednesday. “There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well,” the memo reads.[0]
What would cause or lead to significant revenue impact for Reddit?
[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759559/reddit-internal-memo-api-pricing-changes-steve-huffman
- minimaxir 3y agoAdvertisers leaving Reddit permanently, as is the case with Elon's Twitter.
- dark-star 3y agoeven if 90% of reddit stay down for a week, 7 days is only 2% of a year, so the revenue lost is below 2% of the yearly revenue (ignoring seasonal fluctuations here for a moment). I doubt that any company, large or small, would even notice a dent from those 2 percent. Especially since traffic also went down a bit and probably offsets some of that loss
- pfdietz 3y agoCan't have significant revenue impact if you don't have significant revenue. [insert guy tapping head meme here]
- Anonasty 3y agoBiggest advertisers leaving the platform but I can't see them being so aware. Maybe if the largest subreddits stay indefinitely private until Spez is ousted.
- evolve2k 3y agoSo a call for sponsors to somehow join in on the action? How might that happen?
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- bombcar 3y agoIf the vast majority of Reddit ad-views are people doom scrolling, it doesn't matter what content they have as long as they have something. If the vast majority of ad-views are people coming in from Google, et al, then the revenue impact will hit once the blackout lasts long enough, or if mods start deleting subreddits.
- dsr_ 3y agohttps://onlinetextsharing.com/operation-razit-raze-reddit https://onlinetextsharing.com/operation-razit-raze-reddit might.