Reddit opens self-serve ads to the public (promo your site for as little as $20)

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Post by kn0thing » Wed, Dec 09, 2009, 9:13 PM UTC

Reddit opens self-serve ads to the public (promo your site for as little as $20)
blog.reddit.com

Re: Reddit opens self-serve ads to the public (promo your site for as little as $20)

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Post by orblivion » Wed, Dec 09, 2009, 9:34 PM UTC

I wonder how quickly $20 will be way too low of a bid.

Re: Reddit opens self-serve ads to the public (promo your site for as little as $20)

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Post by presidentender » Wed, Dec 09, 2009, 9:36 PM UTC

orblivion wrote: post #2

I wonder how quickly $20 will be way too low of a bid.

I'd love to see an auction for ad space once they're saturated.

Re: Reddit opens self-serve ads to the public (promo your site for as little as $20)

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Post by jedberg » Wed, Dec 09, 2009, 9:41 PM UTC

orblivion wrote: post #2

I wonder how quickly $20 will be way too low of a bid.

Hopefully soon!

Re: Reddit opens self-serve ads to the public (promo your site for as little as $20)

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Post by ramanujan » Wed, Dec 09, 2009, 9:42 PM UTC

It's not obvious to me that this is necessarily a good place to advertise. Reddit's community is very fickle.

Re: Reddit opens self-serve ads to the public (promo your site for as little as $20)

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Post by kn0thing » Wed, Dec 09, 2009, 9:46 PM UTC

ramanujan wrote: post #5

It's not obvious to me that this is necessarily a good place to advertise. Reddit's community is very fickle.

But what if you're selling the shiny new object of the moment?!

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 09, 2009, 9:46 PM UTC

ramanujan wrote: post #5

It's not obvious to me that this is necessarily a good place to advertise. Reddit's community is very fickle.

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Post by Frazzydee » Wed, Dec 09, 2009, 9:46 PM UTC

presidentender wrote: post #3

orblivion wrote: post #2

I wonder how quickly $20 will be way too low of a bid.

I'd love to see an auction for ad space once they're saturated.

It never gets saturated; "advertisers get a proportional amount of exposure based on how much they bid compared to everyone else" [http://tjantunen.com/2009/11/26/reddit-homepage-advertising-...]

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Post by bumblebird » Wed, Dec 09, 2009, 10:03 PM UTC

ramanujan wrote: post #5

It's not obvious to me that this is necessarily a good place to advertise. Reddit's community is very fickle.

Also they all run adblock etc.

Re: Reddit opens self-serve ads to the public (promo your site for as little as $20)

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Post by bumblebird » Wed, Dec 09, 2009, 10:08 PM UTC

The bidding seems like a complete lottery. What may work well one day, may completely fail the next. You could be throwing money away.

It's a sort of interesting idea, but completely impossible to calculate ROI etc before you spend.

Also, WTH "only accepting US credit cards." Hate it when sites pull that one.