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☆ As Reddit goes public, advertisers say it needs to do more to prove it can boost their sales
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-21 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | Lauren Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

"Advertising on Reddit is rapidly evolving, and we are still in the early phases of growing this business," Reddit wrote in its IPO filing. The company said advertisers were attracted to Reddit due to its "high-intent" audience, much of which is hunting for product recommendations. And elsewhere, Reddit doesn't have the kind of e-commerce structure that Meta, TikTok, and Google have built, experts said. It has poached ad talent from companies like Pinterest and Meta to grow its ad business. Also last year, Jim Squires, a former longtime Meta ad exec, joined Reddit in a new role as EVP of business marketing and growth.

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☆ Sam Altman secretly owned way more Reddit stock than we thought
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | Lauren Steussy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewWe learned a new detail about Sam Altman Thursday: just how much he supports Reddit. The filing revealed that Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, owns an 8.7% stake in the company. Reddit is the first social media company to submit an initial public offering since Pinterest in 2019, and it's the first major tech company to file for an IPO in 2024. The concept of working this closely with AI companies hasn't gone over great with some Reddit users, who have criticized the idea of profiting off users' data without their consent.

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☆ Reddit throughout the years: Its rise to prominence, recent revolts and IPO plans
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Katie Brigham | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The price hikes have led some beloved third-party Reddit apps such as Apollo to shut down, instigating an uproar among the website's community of volunteer moderators, who often rely on third-party apps to run the site's 100,000+ discussion communities, called subreddits. But tensions remain high, and some say that if Reddit doesn't rebuild trust, its most passionate users will go elsewhere. Ohanian rejoined Reddit as executive chairman in 2014 and Huffman rejoined as CEO the next year. But it's not just tech giants who use Reddit's API. These third-party apps are largely just alternatives to Reddit's official mobile app, which didn't even exist until 2016.

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Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAt midnight on Tuesday, the moderators of the Reddit community r/Gaming decided to go dark. "We're talking hundreds of thousands of volunteers putting in hours a day to keep the site safe, entertaining and enjoyable for community members. As a private company, Reddit doesn't have to disclose its financials or provide revenue and profit projections. "You have a lot of people, both professionals and general community members, who are running the numbers on this," Croach said. Jacqueline Sheeran, known as "MCHammerCurls," is the head moderator of r/Fitness, which has more than 10 million members.

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☆ Reddit to AI companies: Pay up if you're using our content
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Reddit said it plans to start charging companies for access to its data that is used to train AI. Major players in the AI race like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google train AI models using Reddit's data, NYT reported. "The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable," Steve Huffman, cofounder and CEO of Reddit, told The Times. Huffman told The Times that Reddit's API will still be free for developers building applications to help people with using Reddit. Most developers and third parties who use Reddit's API have been notified by email, the company said.

Once you find a Reddit user's profile page, you'll be able to see their full comment history, as well as send them a direct message. Reddit users, also known as "Redditors," tend to be devoted users of the website. Because unlike some sites, Reddit doesn't have any sort of directory where you can find a specific user you're looking for. Here are two ways to find a user on Reddit, using an internet browser on your Mac or PC, and the mobile app for iPhone and Android devices. You're going to want to look for the one that starts with "u/" followed by the username you're looking for.

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