Reddit just raised a new round that values the company at $1.8B

are you kidding. so many views, with information on the users, à la facebook. this allows them to serve custom ads, if they decide that it wouldn't halienate their readers too much.

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akulbe 3238 days ago

This is the article I was thinking of: https://www.wsj.com/articles/p-g-cuts-more-than-100-million-... $100M is a big deal.

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akulbe 3241 days ago

I guess you haven't heard that folks don't like ads? and that big names have been cancelling them, because they're not as effective as folks first thought?

There's more to compel a person to go to Facebook than there is to Reddit. Many Reddit threads are more snark than real conversation. <shrug>

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zaqokm321 3241 days ago

> I guess you haven't heard that folks don't like ads?

Nope they don't and Reddit hasn't really been heavily focused on ads. But they do have a large user base, very focused topics etc etc.

So setting up say a /r/games_of_thrones page, if I was HBO could be very lucrative or marketing my products to the subscribers.

> There's more to compel a person to go to Facebook than there is to Reddit.

Reddit has somewhere north of 200 million users, that is a large audience to ignore. So yes FB maybe king but Reddit has its place.

A valuation of $10 a user I would stay is quite low.

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