Ask HN: Is anyone having success with Reddit ads?
7 pointsby mattglossopa month ago4 comments
  • benoaua month ago
    Quite a few people report their results on r/gamedev if you sift through the postmortems although they're a bit tough to find, some recent ones I've seen:

    > Reddit ads for Next Fest. $100 spent, 230k impressions, 1k clicks, ~5 activations, costing us $20/user.

    https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1q2v702/surfsup_1_...

    > Total spend: $522.41

    > Tracked wishlists: 924

    > Cost per wishlist: 0.56

    > Impressions: 728,556

    > Visits: 23,199

    https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1peb1d2/what_i_lea...

    • mattglossopa month ago
      Interesting! Thanks for this. I'm worried that my space (personal finance) may be especially difficult since people are curious but extremely skeptical - there's a huge trust barrier.
  • falloutxa month ago
    People on Reddit have had bad experiences with ads, and they are cautious clicking random Ads, infact making a normal post in an appropriate subreddit, you can easily get 10k views, while on Ads, you'll get maybe 100
    • mattglossopa month ago
      Yea fair. Big challenge I have is direct promotion on reddit is a challenge, even casual/sneaky promotion is often immediately shot down, especially in our niche (personal finance/investing).
  • XCSmea month ago
    I have zero success with most ads. Checking the session recordings in my UXWizz dashboard, I can see that 90%+ of visits are usually bots or fake users.
    • mattglossopa month ago
      What has been successful for you?
      • XCSmea month ago
        Mostly organic posts/content. They tend to reach actual visitors, not bots.
  • silexiaa month ago
    We have seen near zero results across many clients for Reddit.