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Reddit Is Bringing Promoted Posts To Its Mobile Apps (marketingland.com)
Reddit is reportedly launching native promoted posts for its mobile apps. "The company said in an email to advertisers that its apps are the most popular way its 330 million monthly active users access Reddit content on mobile, and they now account for 41 percent of time spent on Reddit across all platforms," reports Marketing Land. "Logged-in app users also spend 30 percent more time per day than users who log in from desktop, and 80 percent of app users don't access Reddit on desktop, according to the company." From the report: In-app promoted posts will have all the elements of a standard Reddit post, including upvotes, downvotes and comment threads. The native mobile ads will also include comments, which was not possible before on the mobile ads. Native promoted posts will be available on iOS starting Monday, March 19, and will roll out to Android in the coming weeks.
Sounds like a good reason not to use the app.
Reddit was fun while it lasted.
Ads. They are ADS and during elections they will be POLITICAL ads.
What the fuck. Are they going to pay for data use too?
Captcha: against
... too, but it needs to buy more than that.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
I was just telling my wife, what we need is more advertising on social media platforms.
Thank you Reddit!
Does that mean it's going to stop being so hostile towards free speech on its platform then?
I mean, I kinda like promoted posts. They're SO easy to find and downvote...
I mean, if you've already agreed to download and run something that is probably gathering data on you and sending it somewhere to be packaged and sold, which is something a lot of mobile apps are doing, why not throw in some sponsored content in there too?
Reddit siphoned some of my online time-wasting away from here the past few years; and I'm sort of getting tired of it. First, reddit's sacred cows are annoying. Every site has them, but I find reddit's to be more numerous than Slashdot's, and over the years Slashdot has mellowed but reddit's *insistence* that you hold certain beliefs or get down-voted has remained consistently strong. If you believe AGW without question, if marijuana is mother's milk, if you absolutely adore Arrested Development, then reddit just might be the place for you. Otherwise... meh. A lot of reddit's comment threads,how shall we put it... compress well. The same meme, the same pun thread. Over and over again. Even if you browse by "controversial", you'll never see the creativity of trolling that Slashdot had back in the day... if you're into that kind of thing. Sponsored crap, paid content... that's not going to raise the level. What's after reddit? Back to Slashdot and Slashlings? Interest-specific forums? Go outside more? I dunno...
New app update appeared just after this announcement. You might find if you don't upgrade the app you won't see these new ads.
Step 1. Make site open to all, embrace everything, promote it as fair and uncensored commentary
Step 2. Crack down on the fringe elements, ban them when they get out of hand, start building walls with site policy updates
Step 3. Put all your hopes into promoted ads as your business model since you never really had one to begin with
Step 4. See you in 5 years?
Reminder that small niche Reddit subs pull more traffic than all of Slashdot.
Reminder that single threads in the larger subs pull more traffic than all of Slashdot.
Nobody uses the mobile apps because they suck.
How long, do you think, before the "downvote" option is removed from these ads?
I give it 10 days.
#DeleteChrome
Look deep into any mobile OS and work out a way to protect users from having big brand content pushed into their devices.
The more a big brand attempts to make a user do something the more fun it becomes to return the GUI to the real device owner.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Like convince me to buy an iphone or some other phone or game or whatever else
In-app promoted posts will have all the elements of a standard Reddit post, including upvotes, downvotes and comment threads.
They had those on desktop for a while. It never goes the way the advertiser intends to and so they shut off comments and voting.
Worked well for Digg
Reddit is also rolling out a redesign based on its mobile app, so I'm sure this is coming to the desktop as well.
As long as the ads aren't obtrusive, I don't see this as a bad thing. The site needs to pay its staff and for server time.
"Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment."
There are lots of Reddit apps. A lot of them are free and adless, and have at least as many features as the app made by Reddit itself.
If the official app starts including unblockable ads, that will just encourage people to start using Apollo or Narwhal instead, or one of the other several dozen clones.
Yup, sounds like reddit, alright. Hope it goes the way of digg.
And site's wonder why I want to browse their sites on the web no matter how much they push their app. And more often than not the desktop site thank you.
+----------------- | What is the question!
Reddit has to keep the lights on somehow. If you don't like ads, pay the $4 a month for a gold subscription.
Has for more than a few years now.
And I ignore them. And won't put reddit apps on my mobile devices.