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Is Reddit still run to be profitable? It always seems like it fits more with a wikipedia type model of donations etc.
Is Reddit still run to be profitable? It always seems like it fits more with a wikipedia type model of donations etc.
I'm more interested in how imgur survives since they serve up far more bandwidth that reddit does and their own advertising and community efforts are pretty young relatively, not to mention hotlinks bypass that entirely.
Is Reddit still run to be profitable? It always seems like it fits more with a wikipedia type model of donations etc.
Reddit is owned by a billion dollar company, and does not need to be profitable. Especially with all the marketing going through the front page every single day, it's an advertisers paradise. I don't think they're hurting for money. Contrary to popular belief Reddit is not some grass-roots operations.
Tell that to Myspace. A property as expensive as reddit has to have a clear road to profitability or it's going to get the axe. Conde Nast isn't running a charity.
Is Reddit still run to be profitable? It always seems like it fits more with a wikipedia type model of donations etc.
I'm more interested in how imgur survives since they serve up far more bandwidth that reddit does and their own advertising and community efforts are pretty young relatively, not to mention hotlinks bypass that entirely.
They have a lot of direct traffic to compensate for the cheap hotlinking.
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I'm more interested in how imgur survives since they serve up far more bandwidth that reddit does and their own advertising and community efforts are pretty young relatively, not to mention hotlinks bypass that entirely.
I constantly wonder about this....and I was willing to pay them for an account -- which they they axed and made it free for all. How can that be sustainable, how?!
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I'm more interested in how imgur survives since they serve up far more bandwidth that reddit does and their own advertising and community efforts are pretty young relatively, not to mention hotlinks bypass that entirely.
Bandwidth have been going down for years. I don't think they release numbers but the community in imgur is pretty active. There's a lot of people browsing imgur directly (they have a voting system, comments...) and know nothing about reddit. They have a lot of direct traffic to compensate for the cheap hotlinking.
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Reddit is owned by a billion dollar company, and does not need to be profitable. Especially with all the marketing going through the front page every single day, it's an advertisers paradise. I don't think they're hurting for money. Contrary to popular belief Reddit is not some grass-roots operations.
> Reddit is owned by a billion dollar company, and does not need to be profitable. Tell that to Myspace. A property as expensive as reddit has to have a clear road to profitability or it's going to get the axe. Conde Nast isn't running a charity.
all that matters in reddit history to me is the turning point when Digg botched their v4 design execution and caused a huge exodus to Reddit, who was struggling at the time. Changed everything
Not sure this makes sense in context. They fucked up I concur but I don't think snafu fits the situation.
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I'm more interested in how imgur survives since they serve up far more bandwidth that reddit does and their own advertising and community efforts are pretty young relatively, not to mention hotlinks bypass that entirely.
Bandwidth have been going down for years. I don't think they release numbers but the community in imgur is pretty active. There's a lot of people browsing imgur directly (they have a voting system, comments...) and know nothing about reddit. They have a lot of direct traffic to compensate for the cheap hotlinking.