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

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.

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."

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.

Wait… Reddit has ads?

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

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.

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

God they can't even make the joke right.

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

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.

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

An 800 number.

That was scary. Thought Lemmy had ads already!!

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?

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

Watching all this happen in realtime is surreal...

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.

Lol would love to see Lemmy ads on Reddit

You: why eat dog shit.

US : Yes.

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.

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

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!

🤢

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

Thought it was a sponsored post here on Lemmy.
Thanks, I hate it.

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

Strong "Hello fellow kids" vibe

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

What is it supposed to mean?

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

I went back once on the official app and it was good awful. It was like watching broadcast TV, so watery.

I can confirm: the audience is not there

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

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)