Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users
Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users
Reddit is getting bigger.
Reddit’s advertising revenue grew to $315.1 million, while “other” revenue reached $33.2 million on account of “data licensing agreements signed earlier this year.” Both Google and OpenAI have cut deals with Reddit to train their AI models on its posts.
In a letter to shareholders, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman attributed the recent increase in users to the platform’s AI-powered translation feature. Reddit started letting users translate posts into French last year before expanding to Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and German. Now, Huffman says Reddit plans to expand translation to over 30 countries through 2025.
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98 million are bots
Indeed, you will note that they carefully chose the moniker "Daily Active Uniques" and not "Daily Active Users".
I think that speaks volumes, as humans are definitely harder to retain.