Reddit Is Profitable For the First Time Ever (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/10/30/0241200/reddit-is-profitable-for-the-first-time-ever
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/24283056/reddit-earnings-user-growth-revenue-up
> The company hasn't been profitable at any point in its nearly 20-year history. Since going public, Reddit lost $575 million during its first quarter on the market, but it decreased that loss to $10 million last quarter, and is now finally in the green. Reddit also grew to 97.2 million daily users over the past few months, marking a 47 percent increase from the same time last year. That number exceeded 100 million users on some days during the quarter, Reddit says.
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> 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 [3]cut deals with Reddit to train their AI models on its posts.
[1] https://investor.redditinc.com/news-events/news-releases/news-details/2024/Reddit-Announces-Third-Quarter-2024-Results/
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/24283056/reddit-earnings-user-growth-revenue-up
[3] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/02/17/2136225/reddit-has-reportedly-signed-over-its-content-to-train-ai-models
Profit beats quality (Score:2, Insightful)
Unfortunately, unless you want cat videos and other ephemera, Reddit is not what it once was.
Maybe this is because many of the moderators left or, essentially, internet communities tend towards entropy.
Re: (Score:3)
"Unfortunately, unless you want cat videos and other ephemera, Reddit is not what it once was." You might be using a different Reddit than I am, but I usually search for topics of interest externally (not using Reddit's search but using a web search engine with reddit or site:reddit.com as one of the search words.) The only annoyance I have with it is how quickly some of the discussions become "archived".
"and is now finally in the green." (Score:2)
Should be:
"and is now finally in the black."
If using proper accounting terms.
Once again showing (Score:3)
That Slashdotters have precisely zero business sense. Just like the claims that Reddit will go bankrupt after what they did a few years back. Or the claims that Netflix will lose all its subscribers, or the claims that Meta can't keep spending money on VR, or that Uber will cease to exist, or that Tesla can't afford to make EVs, etc. etc.
Slashdotters are effectively the tech world equivalent of Jim Cramer when it comes to understanding business. They make a lot of noise, and usually the exact opposite of what they predict is the reality.
So it's still in the hole... (Score:2)
20 years in the red, losing $$, how did it survive ??? Reddit lost $575 million during its first quarter on the market, finally made $29.9 million, so it's still lost $545.1 million just from then and not counting all lost since then !!
Product (Score:2)
"its posts", they say. Rarely has it been more clear that we're the product, not the customer.
Obligatory (Score:1)
We did it reddit!