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Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews

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

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

No, because people would get it's a South Park reference.

I'd hate to thinking that our dialog has downgraded to memes and TV show references. Regardless of appropriateness, it doesn't add information or opinion, it's just noise.

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

#22
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No site like Reddit can fill 1 billion impressions at $2 eCPM. Closer to $0.25 I'd bet.

I've run the "sponsored link" ads before, and it's usually $0.40-0.70 CPM.

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

#23
post #14

Wow, good job, Team Reddit! Since I think you guy still read HN: Something you all seem to do very, very well is interact with your users. Almost every day I'll see somebody [usually jedberg] show up in a thread answering a question, or responding to something, or even just saying hello. Like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/fdyyf/reddit_billions_... That's awesome :).

Awesome? Would you still feel that way if your employees spent all day on reddit?!

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

#25
post #16

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

Reddit is an amazing site and an amazing community - there are a lot more factors that go into its success. However, I think quality has suffered slightly recently based on the amount of content that is FFUU comics and just plain pics. While I have been a user for 4+ years, and I love the site to death - there are some improvements in the UX tat could be made -- the most specific would be to allow further tags of ima…

It's funny, because the reasoning (from what I understand) for subreddits instead of tags was that subreddits create distinct communities. While this is true, cases like FUU comics being in every subreddit point to subreddits as failing to contain their communties. With an additive tag system (Show me posts tagged "Minecraft") or the current system, those posts show up anyway. With a subtractive tag system (For the love of god, no more "FUUU"), they wouldn't show up.

Either way, I agree with you on FUU comics. They became so pervasive I just gave up and deleted my account.

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

#26
post #16

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

Reddit is an amazing site and an amazing community - there are a lot more factors that go into its success. However, I think quality has suffered slightly recently based on the amount of content that is FFUU comics and just plain pics. While I have been a user for 4+ years, and I love the site to death - there are some improvements in the UX tat could be made -- the most specific would be to allow further tags of ima…

Fun fact: I created the F7U12 subreddit. I'm sorry, but it's a fantastic way to unwind and a great community due to the fact that most comics are common annoyances everyday people have.

Besides, you can always unsubscribe.

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

#27
post #11

In light of the threads lately about how well StackOverflow does with their MS stack, I'm wondering how their traffic compares to Reddit, which runs on OSS/Python + Java.

You can't compare them directly, as SO has fewer posts per day (I assume) and the comment trees of reddit are larger and more intensive to display.

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

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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.

That's insanely optimistic to the point of absurdity.

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

#30

120,000,000 is what we (minecraft forum and minecraft wiki) hit for January (as per quantcast) which I think is pretty neat too, for anyone who likes pretty stats.

http://i.imgur.com/jgXrf.png If you like pretty stats, here are ours ;) Congrats to the Reddit folks, one of my favorite website on the internet nowadays!
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