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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

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Post by staunch »

raldi wrote: post #3

To 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...

And Plentyoffish blows Reddit out of the water on page views. MySpace had massive page views (they resisted AJAX to increase ad impressions -- similar to POF).

It's a ridiculous metric. Certain types of sites simply get large numbers of page views due to their nature and design.

Monthly uniques, repeat visits, and average time on site are a much more reasonable basis for comparing different types of sites (and even that is quite flawed).

Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by benatkin »

raldi wrote: post #3

To 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...

That's a boring bet. Betting on an extrapolation of pageview graphs isn't much fun at all.

Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by piguy314 »

bialecki wrote: post #22
raldi wrote: post #3

To 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...

A lot of LinkedIn's value isn't the ads (although their a revenue stream), it's the data they have. This is why they recently started offering an integration with Salesforce to offer more data on leads. Having higher quality on people and how you're connected to them in the social graph is incredibly powerful. Reddit doesn't really have anything like that. They may be able to monetize in other ways beyond advertising…

Does anyone know if Reddit targets ads based on the content of the sub-reddit in which the ad appears? That seems to make the most sense to me. Some advertisers will pay good money to advertise to people who are already interested in their type of product/industry/genre etc...

Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by [deleted] »

danso wrote: post #21

Whatever you think of @reddit's march towards decline...this was my favorite part of the blog post...and something I hope rings with other popular sites: Here’s a list of things we don’t (and won’t) do for traffic: We don't get traffic through ads. We don’t participate in any traffic trading. We don’t email our users (unless they choose to enter an email and then forget their password). We don’t harass users to sign…

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Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by ugh »

giberson wrote: post #64

I'll admit to being one of the latecomers to reddit in the last year. I use to avoid reddit like the plague, because I thought reddit was just www.reddit.com (the main page) which the few times I visited was filled with random assortment of stuff I didn't care about. Later, I discovered the true essence of reddit, sub-reddits. Things like r/loseit, r/fitness, r/gamedev, r/ . Now I'm hooked--I visit the sub reddits mu…

One huge problem, though, is that shit (specifically racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fat shaming, ableism – oh, I guess that list really isn’t all that specific) tends to crop up everywhere. It’s a very reddity kind of shit.

Encountering blatant (and highly visible because upvoted) sexism (for example) in such harmless sounding subreddits as /r/soccer or /r/minecraft really kills all my fun. There are a few nicely moderated places, though, so not all hope is lost (and /r/soccer is at least usually devoid of shit).

Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by leoedin »

rudiger wrote: post #30
danso wrote: post #21

Whatever you think of @reddit's march towards decline...this was my favorite part of the blog post...and something I hope rings with other popular sites: Here’s a list of things we don’t (and won’t) do for traffic: We don't get traffic through ads. We don’t participate in any traffic trading. We don’t email our users (unless they choose to enter an email and then forget their password). We don’t harass users to sign…

Regarding the "decline" of Reddit: any site that gets 2 billion monthly page views is going to be wholly different from its incipient form of several years ago. Surely the users of Reddit who pine for its past have many alternatives today.

Some aspects of HN are very similar to the way reddit was four years ago. The topics covered are slightly different, but at least half of the HN main page is normally not directly startup related, and the discussion threads are almost always interesting.

Hopefully it'll stay that well. Childish and one line comments seem to stay away, which is absolutely fantastic.

Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by redthrowaway »

dekz wrote: post #76
bad_user wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is my belief (and from personal observation) that the bad apples constitute a very loud minority. Punishing just a couple and clearly promoting your values makes a big difference.

I find it much harder to swallow the comments on reddit, at least here on HN there is a guideline which encourages comments which add to the discussion; whereas on reddit, it's a shamble of memes and novelty accounts which depending on the account handle are allowed to be rude/obnoxious/racist. I find it easier to leave proggit/reddit behind and follow Hacker News simply due to my alignment with the guidelines and th…

Reddit has a much bigger list of dos and don'ts than does HN: http://www.reddit.com/help/reddiquette

As memes are appropriate for many of the subreddits, they're obviously excluded. Still, HN is really no different than a subreddit run under the same rules.

Re: Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

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Post by redthrowaway »

127 wrote: post #80
amitparikh wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because reddit sometimes does show real ads in that space. And I think this feature was designed with 'fun' in mind -- it's lighthearted! References: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/10/fun-in-sidebar.html and http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/dqse4/fun_in_the_sideb...

What you consider "fun" and "lighthearted" I consider a waste of space and attention. Tell me how it is logically not.

Clearly you aren't their target market. The "instead of an ad, here's x" pictures have proven to be fairly popular.
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