This is embarrassing.
What a weak revenue stream. Imagine being a business, investing in a subreddit, only for the subreddit to be inundated by bots.
Reddit is going the way of Twitter and it's astounding to watch.
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Watching all this happen in realtime is surreal...
Pretty wild, isn't it? This is what it felt like when Digg v4 came out.
If you go to the URL in the ad and click on "get started," you will see something interesting:
An 800 number.
What's so interesting about the 800 number?
If enough people call it, it costs them money, for starters.
I though I was going crazy for a second and I thought I went back in time and I was on Reddit via Apollo
I guess there's a limit to how many ads the He Gets Us people will buy.
Strong "Hello fellow kids" vibe
For a second I thought there’s an ad on Lemmy and that made me so confused lol
Having tried to use Reddit advertising for business (a national company), it really wasn’t very good. They had very poor targeting and algorithms.
Reddit has attempted, multiple times, to reach out to Andrew Tate to partner with him on advertisements, including twice while he was imprisoned.
I know this because their numbskull marketing folks can’t proofread the email address they’re sending outreach to, and I received the outreach emails as a result. Thanks, Reddit!
Can you post them? Name and shame.
You need to leak those emails, screw Reddit and u/spez.
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What is it supposed to mean?
It means "Yes, that is the correct question to ask. Really think it through because we don't have an answer for you."
I can confirm: the audience is not there
First post on the page when I just started using wefwef. Thought I'd been invaded by ads already!