Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by tewks » Wed, Feb 02, 2011, 7:47 PM UTC

Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews
reddit.com

Re: Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by raheemm » Wed, Feb 02, 2011, 8:01 PM UTC

What does that translate to in ad revenues?

Re: Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by mrkurt » Wed, Feb 02, 2011, 8:20 PM UTC

raheemm wrote: post #2

What does that translate to in ad revenues?

About $3.50.

Re: Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by maverhick » Wed, Feb 02, 2011, 8:30 PM UTC

For a co. that is handled by just a few developers, this is just phenomenal. Hats off to the team! :)

Re: Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by jpeterson » Wed, Feb 02, 2011, 8:31 PM UTC

mrkurt wrote: post #3

raheemm wrote: post #2

What does that translate to in ad revenues?

About $3.50.

Wow, this comment would've been downvoted to oblivion in the old days. What does this mean?

Re: Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by steveklabnik » Wed, Feb 02, 2011, 8:38 PM UTC

jpeterson wrote: post #5

mrkurt wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

About $3.50.

Wow, this comment would've been downvoted to oblivion in the old days. What does this mean?

I took it as satire on the whole 'Reddit got bought by a giant megaconglomerate yet still had to beg their userbase for money to keep going, and their site is still slow as a dog' fiasco.

Then again, about two days ago the Inbox stopped taking 2+ minutes to load, so...

Re: Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by zachallaun » Wed, Feb 02, 2011, 8:39 PM UTC

raheemm wrote: post #2

What does that translate to in ad revenues?

This is clearly simplified, but nevertheless...

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[edit] Info from comments demonstrates these results, though simplified, to be incredibly optimistic. Assuming a CPM of $1.00 and taking into account the ratio of paid advertisement to Reddit advertisement, the Monthly Revenue number would dip significantly to $100,000.

Re: Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by Pewpewarrows » Wed, Feb 02, 2011, 8:43 PM UTC

Huge congratulations to the reddit team, old and new.

Does this mean you'll be doing your next round of hiring for a new dev soon?

Re: Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by OmarIsmail » Wed, Feb 02, 2011, 8:44 PM UTC

zachallaun wrote: post #7

raheemm wrote: post #2

What does that translate to in ad revenues?

This is clearly simplified, but nevertheless... [deleted] [edit] Info from comments demonstrates these results, though simplified, to be incredibly optimistic. Assuming a CPM of $1.00 and taking into account the ratio of paid advertisement to Reddit advertisement, the Monthly Revenue number would dip significantly to $100,000.

It seems that CPMs are more in the $0.50-1.00 range[1]. Which still translates into a very nice chunk of change and that's not counting other initiatives such as reddit gold.

[1] http://www.winningtheweb.com/reddit-homepage-advertising-res...

Re: Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by klbarry » Wed, Feb 02, 2011, 8:45 PM UTC

zachallaun wrote: post #7

raheemm wrote: post #2

What does that translate to in ad revenues?

This is clearly simplified, but nevertheless... [deleted] [edit] Info from comments demonstrates these results, though simplified, to be incredibly optimistic. Assuming a CPM of $1.00 and taking into account the ratio of paid advertisement to Reddit advertisement, the Monthly Revenue number would dip significantly to $100,000.

Keep in mind 90% of the ads right now are just games or reddit ads (keep refreshing the page). Not mention a good percentage of their users use adblock and are extemely anti-commercial. I think they are making significantly, significantly less.