Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
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Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#2That's incredible. Congrats!! :)
Are we allowed to ask how/if they're making money?
Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#3To put that in perspective, Flickr is at 1.5B. LinkedIn, 2.7B.
Edit: I'd like to go on record with a bet that by the end of the year, reddit will get more traffic than LinkedIn (which currently has a market cap in excess of $6,000,000,000).
Anyone want to bet against me?
https://plus.google.com/u/1/109191382354704910211/posts/ZRiC...
Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#4That's incredible. Congrats!! :) Are we allowed to ask how/if they're making money?
Yes, how many of those eyeball visits produce revenue, and does the company have actual earnings (profits)?
Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#5That's incredible. Congrats!! :) Are we allowed to ask how/if they're making money?
I'm guessing they are making money (ads & reddit gold) since they have been able to make a few hires recently.
Unfortunately the overall quality of content on reddit has really gone downhill. Even after unsubscribing to the subreddits that were the worst offenders, it's really hard to find interesting stuff with meaningful discussions. These days I'm almost embarrassed to tell people I use reddit.
Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#6That's incredible. Congrats!! :) Are we allowed to ask how/if they're making money?
I'm guessing they are making money (ads & reddit gold) since they have been able to make a few hires recently. Unfortunately the overall quality of content on reddit has really gone downhill. Even after unsubscribing to the subreddits that were the worst offenders, it's really hard to find interesting stuff with meaningful discussions. These days I'm almost embarrassed to tell people I use reddit.
Reddit is the new Digg. Groupthink on an epic scale, linkbait headlines, and hordes of people that want to feel angry about things so they can at least feel something. (Just like old media!) Now, there is some good content on there, but there's way too much crap to wade through in order to find it.
Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#7That's incredible. Congrats!! :) Are we allowed to ask how/if they're making money?
I'm guessing they are making money (ads & reddit gold) since they have been able to make a few hires recently. Unfortunately the overall quality of content on reddit has really gone downhill. Even after unsubscribing to the subreddits that were the worst offenders, it's really hard to find interesting stuff with meaningful discussions. These days I'm almost embarrassed to tell people I use reddit.
Was money the problem before for hiring or the lack of support from the parent company (Conde Nast)? I don't know if they suddenly made more money and as a result were able to hire.
Edit: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/11/thank-you-mr-nast-may-we-have...
Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#8That's incredible. Congrats!! :) Are we allowed to ask how/if they're making money?
I'm guessing they are making money (ads & reddit gold) since they have been able to make a few hires recently. Unfortunately the overall quality of content on reddit has really gone downhill. Even after unsubscribing to the subreddits that were the worst offenders, it's really hard to find interesting stuff with meaningful discussions. These days I'm almost embarrassed to tell people I use reddit.
Unfortunately the degradation of community and content is one of the issues that is associated with scale. I personally think reddit has done a much better job at staying off the decline than digg did. I'll be interested to see how things progress as their traffic numbers continue (presumably) to rise.
Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing they are making money (ads & reddit gold) since they have been able to make a few hires recently. Unfortunately the overall quality of content on reddit has really gone downhill. Even after unsubscribing to the subreddits that were the worst offenders, it's really hard to find interesting stuff with meaningful discussions. These days I'm almost embarrassed to tell people I use reddit.
Was money the problem before for hiring or the lack of support from the parent company (Conde Nast)? I don't know if they suddenly made more money and as a result were able to hire. Edit: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/11/thank-you-mr-nast-may-we-have...
Unless they are lying, the impression I got was that the issue was money, and that things like Gold Members directly impacted their ability to hire.
Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing they are making money (ads & reddit gold) since they have been able to make a few hires recently. Unfortunately the overall quality of content on reddit has really gone downhill. Even after unsubscribing to the subreddits that were the worst offenders, it's really hard to find interesting stuff with meaningful discussions. These days I'm almost embarrassed to tell people I use reddit.
Reddit is the new Digg. Groupthink on an epic scale, linkbait headlines, and hordes of people that want to feel angry about things so they can at least feel something . (Just like old media!) Now, there is some good content on there, but there's way too much crap to wade through in order to find it.
Former and active NASA engineers hang out in r/space sometimes. r/askscience is full of incredible questions and smart answers. r/science recently started enforcing stricter standards and now has plenty of amazing discussion and knowledge moving around. r/physics is the same.
It all depends on where you go, and I strongly disagree that finding those places is difficult.