Seen on reddit: Ran out of advertisers. Why? Yes.

Step 1: Announce very unpopular changes Step 2: Ignore backlash, go through with the plan Step 3: Predictably, lose users and advertisers Step 4: ???? Step 5: Why advertise on reddit?

I wonder if advertisers have been leaving Reddit and if so, how many? I've honestly never seen a social media website/company ask for advertisers like this tbh.

I'm not a lot on social media to begin with, so I'm not sure.

Lol would love to see Lemmy ads on Reddit

Lol you know a website is running out of advertisement because they start promote their own website 😂 lol

A quote that always stuck with me was: "'Your ad here' signs are proof that the ad spot doesn't work well, otherwise someone would have put their ad there."

That was scary. Thought Lemmy had ads already!!

Wait… Reddit has ads?

I logged in to reddit on my computer the day after rif went dark, and there were noticeably fewer posts on the front page. I think only 8 or so posts were above 10k upvotes. I wouldn't be surprised if advertisers are pulling their ads in response.

Am I wrong in thinking this is sad as hell? Like seeing an old faded billboard with the same "your ad here!" text that's been there for ages.

Reddit is always hitting itself. Cause if they turn back the changes now, they'll still have lost the trust of mods and users (it's too late for it now, we're past that point)

That's pretty fucking pathetic. Reddit for business my hairy ass.

I keep seeing this as well. Probably the most frequent ad I've seen.

I saw that on my few last days on Reddit. I was wondering about their rates b/c I was wondering what it would cost to take out an ad calling spez a complete twat.

They really thought that meme was appropriate.

But here it is, being posted, so maybe it worked?

Yesn't

Why advertise on reddit?

Yes.

And they wonder why they don't have any advertiser support...

You shouldn't want to be seeing it. Turn your adblock on and don't give them revenue.

I though I was going crazy for a second and I thought I went back in time and I was on Reddit via Apollo

We should all club together and get some ads for the fediverse on there.

Watching all this happen in realtime is surreal...

Your post made me think ads had already invaded. So, I hate you.

God this sucks...

Having tried to use Reddit advertising for business (a national company), it really wasn’t very good. They had very poor targeting and algorithms.

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.

God they can't even make the joke right.

I can confirm: the audience is not there

Ran out of advertisers, Why? Because we made some really "great" decisions at reddit!

I guess there's a limit to how many ads the He Gets Us people will buy.

Even in their ads for ads they have to get their content from their user base

It’s fairly reasonable to assume advertisers are leaving. This isn’t one of those controversies that has two sides, it’s just Reddit being shitty because they want to make more money, and mods, users and disabled people on the other side being annoyed with Reddit.

There’s very little for advertisers to lose by redirecting their ad budget elsewhere, but if they stick around there’s a risk that annoyance spills over to them.

It also doesn’t take much for marketing teams to make a change - they do it all the time to stay on the right side of controversies and avoid things they don’t want to be associated with.

I keep seeing this ad on Facebook. I don't even buy ads. They must be desperate.

Strong "Hello fellow kids" vibe

If you go to the URL in the ad and click on "get started," you will see something interesting:

An 800 number.

u/Spez is following Elon's playbook and it might start the downfall of Reddit

First post on the page when I just started using wefwef. Thought I'd been invaded by ads already!

For a second I thought there’s an ad on Lemmy and that made me so confused lol

What is it supposed to mean?

Get out, get out!