The Reddit Invasion

The Reddit lnvasion Reddit Timeline Y Combinator FAKE June 2005 Received $100k in funding from Y Combinator In the beginning Steve and Alexis submitted most of the links from many fake June 2005: Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian accounts after graduation from University of Virginia TM reddit kit open source CONDÉRNAST January 2008: Added the ability to allow anyone to create their own subreddits June 2008: October 2006: Bought by Condé Nast; had 500,000 daily unique views, for an estimated $20 million Became open source World Domination redditgifts December 2009: First RedditGift exchange, 4,500 Redditors spent $185,000 December 2009: Reddit launches Selfserve Advertising October 2009: Steve Huffman left Reddit digg Ver.4 August 2010: Digg v4 released... July 2010: Reddit Gold launched August 2010: Reddit post's took over the homepage of Digg, starting the mass exodus to Reddit September 2010: Restoring Truthiness Campaign started on Reddit; ended up raising $600,000 for Donors Choose November 2010: December 2010: 2nd RedditGift exchange with 17,000+ participants spending over $660,000 Alexis Ohanian left and joined Steve Huffman to found Hipmunk the aam a billion 1 August 2011: Reddit acquires RedditGifts April 2011: February 2011: Surpassed 1 billion page views a month; average time on site 15 minutes 40 seconds Reddit over takes Digg in ranking Reddit Mothership billion 1.6 16 bilon September 2011: Hits: 1.6 billion page views a month September 2011: Condé Nast spun out Reddit as its own company 1.6 billion In a 7 months Reddit went from 1 billion pageviews a month to 1.6 billion. Reddit is a bit of a sausage party, ok not this kind of sausage. billion 19% Female 425 1% million Other 80% Male July 2010 February 2011 September 2011 08:00 I*1 Average time spent on Reddit Canadians waste more time on Reddit than any other country Popularity of Reddit vs length of articles on front page You can find anything on Reddit from a quick laugh to well written article, to porn, there is literally something for everyone Article length Popularity REDDIT GOLD A subscription to Reddit, which gives users access to a few new features Reddit Gold allowed the Reddit to bring 46 new services online, and many new staff were hired Conde Nast is a subscription-based company so Reddit Gold allowed Reddit to show Conde Nast how popular their site was The death of Digg really helped Reddit grow Before Digg v4 After Digg v4 launched Reddit hit 950,000 and kept growing launched Reddit was running 600,000 unique visitors a day There was a max exodus from Digg to Reddit RIP Generous People $45,000 raised for various charities when members of the Christianity, Atheism and Islam subreddit joined together $600,000+ raised by donors who chose to support public education $185,000 raised to Regularly the Reddit community comes together to support a fellow Redditor rebuild Haiti after the deadly 2010 earthquake in need After 7 year old Kathleen Edwards who was suffering from Huntington's disease was taunted by her neighbours, Reddit joined together to raise money for a toy shopping spree for her and local kids Random Acts of Pizza, a popular subreddit; created to help other people who just needed a helping hand, the rationale being that a simple pizza might be all it takes in the hospital Reddit is not just one community, it is a meeting place for many communities AAAA 83,000+ different subreddits and counting, 90% of visitors never make accounts although only 6,700 have more 90% of than 100 subscribers regular visitors who have accounts never vote Unlike other news aggregates, everyone has an equal opportunity to make it to the front page, whether you have been there forever or just made an account today What type of Redditors are you? The Lurker • 90% of Redditors do not have an account, never comment or upvote • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • The front page... Social Media Spammer: • Created a cool infographic and submitted it to Reddit in hope that the hivemind might like it • Spends way too much time on Reddit > Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Reddit.com > r/Todayilearned > r/Technology > r/Circlejerk The Fake News Junkie • Repeats things they saw on Reddit to their friends. • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Politics • rWorldNews • r/IAMA • r/FirstWorldProblems The Wannabe Comic • Spends all their time in the comments section; repeats other peoples jokes, begging for upvotes • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Funny > r/WTF • r/4chan The Novelty Account > Waits years just so that their novelty account name is funny or relevant > Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Pics > r/Reddit.com > r/AskReddit TL:DR • Will rarely read more than a few lines of an article • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Pics • r/TLDR • r/IAMA • r/Reddit.com The Liberal Douchbag • Democrats can do no The Reposter • Reposts content they found on another subreddit • Spends way too much wrong, and they want to make sure everyone knows it • Spends way too much time on Reddit time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe • Most likely to subscribe to: to: • r/Geek » r/Reddit.com • r/Funny • r/fffffffuuuuuu > r/Politics • r/AskReddit > r/Obama > r/Jailbait NSFW > fap fap fap... • Spends way too much The Digg Refugee • Found Reddit after Digg v4 killed Dig • Spends way too much time on Reddit time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Gonewild • r/NSFW > r/Sex • r/Rule34 • Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Gaming • r/WTF > r/Funny • r/Pics Amount of time procrastinating on Reddit instead of working on this infographic 07:42 78 TL:DR: Reddit is awesome sortable .com ||| | | | || || The Reddit lnvasion Reddit Timeline Y Combinator FAKE June 2005 Received $100k in funding from Y Combinator In the beginning Steve and Alexis submitted most of the links from many fake June 2005: Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian accounts after graduation from University of Virginia TM reddit kit open source CONDÉRNAST January 2008: Added the ability to allow anyone to create their own subreddits June 2008: October 2006: Bought by Condé Nast; had 500,000 daily unique views, for an estimated $20 million Became open source World Domination redditgifts December 2009: First RedditGift exchange, 4,500 Redditors spent $185,000 December 2009: Reddit launches Selfserve Advertising October 2009: Steve Huffman left Reddit digg Ver.4 August 2010: Digg v4 released... July 2010: Reddit Gold launched August 2010: Reddit post's took over the homepage of Digg, starting the mass exodus to Reddit September 2010: Restoring Truthiness Campaign started on Reddit; ended up raising $600,000 for Donors Choose November 2010: December 2010: 2nd RedditGift exchange with 17,000+ participants spending over $660,000 Alexis Ohanian left and joined Steve Huffman to found Hipmunk the aam a billion 1 August 2011: Reddit acquires RedditGifts April 2011: February 2011: Surpassed 1 billion page views a month; average time on site 15 minutes 40 seconds Reddit over takes Digg in ranking Reddit Mothership billion 1.6 16 bilon September 2011: Hits: 1.6 billion page views a month September 2011: Condé Nast spun out Reddit as its own company 1.6 billion In a 7 months Reddit went from 1 billion pageviews a month to 1.6 billion. Reddit is a bit of a sausage party, ok not this kind of sausage. billion 19% Female 425 1% million Other 80% Male July 2010 February 2011 September 2011 08:00 I*1 Average time spent on Reddit Canadians waste more time on Reddit than any other country Popularity of Reddit vs length of articles on front page You can find anything on Reddit from a quick laugh to well written article, to porn, there is literally something for everyone Article length Popularity REDDIT GOLD A subscription to Reddit, which gives users access to a few new features Reddit Gold allowed the Reddit to bring 46 new services online, and many new staff were hired Conde Nast is a subscription-based company so Reddit Gold allowed Reddit to show Conde Nast how popular their site was The death of Digg really helped Reddit grow Before Digg v4 After Digg v4 launched Reddit hit 950,000 and kept growing launched Reddit was running 600,000 unique visitors a day There was a max exodus from Digg to Reddit RIP Generous People $45,000 raised for various charities when members of the Christianity, Atheism and Islam subreddit joined together $600,000+ raised by donors who chose to support public education $185,000 raised to Regularly the Reddit community comes together to support a fellow Redditor rebuild Haiti after the deadly 2010 earthquake in need After 7 year old Kathleen Edwards who was suffering from Huntington's disease was taunted by her neighbours, Reddit joined together to raise money for a toy shopping spree for her and local kids Random Acts of Pizza, a popular subreddit; created to help other people who just needed a helping hand, the rationale being that a simple pizza might be all it takes in the hospital Reddit is not just one community, it is a meeting place for many communities AAAA 83,000+ different subreddits and counting, 90% of visitors never make accounts although only 6,700 have more 90% of than 100 subscribers regular visitors who have accounts never vote Unlike other news aggregates, everyone has an equal opportunity to make it to the front page, whether you have been there forever or just made an account today What type of Redditors are you? The Lurker • 90% of Redditors do not have an account, never comment or upvote • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • The front page... Social Media Spammer: • Created a cool infographic and submitted it to Reddit in hope that the hivemind might like it • Spends way too much time on Reddit > Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Reddit.com > r/Todayilearned > r/Technology > r/Circlejerk The Fake News Junkie • Repeats things they saw on Reddit to their friends. • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Politics • rWorldNews • r/IAMA • r/FirstWorldProblems The Wannabe Comic • Spends all their time in the comments section; repeats other peoples jokes, begging for upvotes • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Funny > r/WTF • r/4chan The Novelty Account > Waits years just so that their novelty account name is funny or relevant > Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Pics > r/Reddit.com > r/AskReddit TL:DR • Will rarely read more than a few lines of an article • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Pics • r/TLDR • r/IAMA • r/Reddit.com The Liberal Douchbag • Democrats can do no The Reposter • Reposts content they found on another subreddit • Spends way too much wrong, and they want to make sure everyone knows it • Spends way too much time on Reddit time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe • Most likely to subscribe to: to: • r/Geek » r/Reddit.com • r/Funny • r/fffffffuuuuuu > r/Politics • r/AskReddit > r/Obama > r/Jailbait NSFW > fap fap fap... • Spends way too much The Digg Refugee • Found Reddit after Digg v4 killed Dig • Spends way too much time on Reddit time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Gonewild • r/NSFW > r/Sex • r/Rule34 • Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Gaming • r/WTF > r/Funny • r/Pics Amount of time procrastinating on Reddit instead of working on this infographic 07:42 78 TL:DR: Reddit is awesome sortable .com ||| | | | || || The Reddit lnvasion Reddit Timeline Y Combinator FAKE June 2005 Received $100k in funding from Y Combinator In the beginning Steve and Alexis submitted most of the links from many fake June 2005: Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian accounts after graduation from University of Virginia TM reddit kit open source CONDÉRNAST January 2008: Added the ability to allow anyone to create their own subreddits June 2008: October 2006: Bought by Condé Nast; had 500,000 daily unique views, for an estimated $20 million Became open source World Domination redditgifts December 2009: First RedditGift exchange, 4,500 Redditors spent $185,000 December 2009: Reddit launches Selfserve Advertising October 2009: Steve Huffman left Reddit digg Ver.4 August 2010: Digg v4 released... July 2010: Reddit Gold launched August 2010: Reddit post's took over the homepage of Digg, starting the mass exodus to Reddit September 2010: Restoring Truthiness Campaign started on Reddit; ended up raising $600,000 for Donors Choose November 2010: December 2010: 2nd RedditGift exchange with 17,000+ participants spending over $660,000 Alexis Ohanian left and joined Steve Huffman to found Hipmunk the aam a billion 1 August 2011: Reddit acquires RedditGifts April 2011: February 2011: Surpassed 1 billion page views a month; average time on site 15 minutes 40 seconds Reddit over takes Digg in ranking Reddit Mothership billion 1.6 16 bilon September 2011: Hits: 1.6 billion page views a month September 2011: Condé Nast spun out Reddit as its own company 1.6 billion In a 7 months Reddit went from 1 billion pageviews a month to 1.6 billion. Reddit is a bit of a sausage party, ok not this kind of sausage. billion 19% Female 425 1% million Other 80% Male July 2010 February 2011 September 2011 08:00 I*1 Average time spent on Reddit Canadians waste more time on Reddit than any other country Popularity of Reddit vs length of articles on front page You can find anything on Reddit from a quick laugh to well written article, to porn, there is literally something for everyone Article length Popularity REDDIT GOLD A subscription to Reddit, which gives users access to a few new features Reddit Gold allowed the Reddit to bring 46 new services online, and many new staff were hired Conde Nast is a subscription-based company so Reddit Gold allowed Reddit to show Conde Nast how popular their site was The death of Digg really helped Reddit grow Before Digg v4 After Digg v4 launched Reddit hit 950,000 and kept growing launched Reddit was running 600,000 unique visitors a day There was a max exodus from Digg to Reddit RIP Generous People $45,000 raised for various charities when members of the Christianity, Atheism and Islam subreddit joined together $600,000+ raised by donors who chose to support public education $185,000 raised to Regularly the Reddit community comes together to support a fellow Redditor rebuild Haiti after the deadly 2010 earthquake in need After 7 year old Kathleen Edwards who was suffering from Huntington's disease was taunted by her neighbours, Reddit joined together to raise money for a toy shopping spree for her and local kids Random Acts of Pizza, a popular subreddit; created to help other people who just needed a helping hand, the rationale being that a simple pizza might be all it takes in the hospital Reddit is not just one community, it is a meeting place for many communities AAAA 83,000+ different subreddits and counting, 90% of visitors never make accounts although only 6,700 have more 90% of than 100 subscribers regular visitors who have accounts never vote Unlike other news aggregates, everyone has an equal opportunity to make it to the front page, whether you have been there forever or just made an account today What type of Redditors are you? The Lurker • 90% of Redditors do not have an account, never comment or upvote • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • The front page... Social Media Spammer: • Created a cool infographic and submitted it to Reddit in hope that the hivemind might like it • Spends way too much time on Reddit > Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Reddit.com > r/Todayilearned > r/Technology > r/Circlejerk The Fake News Junkie • Repeats things they saw on Reddit to their friends. • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Politics • rWorldNews • r/IAMA • r/FirstWorldProblems The Wannabe Comic • Spends all their time in the comments section; repeats other peoples jokes, begging for upvotes • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Funny > r/WTF • r/4chan The Novelty Account > Waits years just so that their novelty account name is funny or relevant > Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Pics > r/Reddit.com > r/AskReddit TL:DR • Will rarely read more than a few lines of an article • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Pics • r/TLDR • r/IAMA • r/Reddit.com The Liberal Douchbag • Democrats can do no The Reposter • Reposts content they found on another subreddit • Spends way too much wrong, and they want to make sure everyone knows it • Spends way too much time on Reddit time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe • Most likely to subscribe to: to: • r/Geek » r/Reddit.com • r/Funny • r/fffffffuuuuuu > r/Politics • r/AskReddit > r/Obama > r/Jailbait NSFW > fap fap fap... • Spends way too much The Digg Refugee • Found Reddit after Digg v4 killed Dig • Spends way too much time on Reddit time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Gonewild • r/NSFW > r/Sex • r/Rule34 • Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Gaming • r/WTF > r/Funny • r/Pics Amount of time procrastinating on Reddit instead of working on this infographic 07:42 78 TL:DR: Reddit is awesome sortable .com ||| | | | || || The Reddit lnvasion Reddit Timeline Y Combinator FAKE June 2005 Received $100k in funding from Y Combinator In the beginning Steve and Alexis submitted most of the links from many fake June 2005: Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian accounts after graduation from University of Virginia TM reddit kit open source CONDÉRNAST January 2008: Added the ability to allow anyone to create their own subreddits June 2008: October 2006: Bought by Condé Nast; had 500,000 daily unique views, for an estimated $20 million Became open source World Domination redditgifts December 2009: First RedditGift exchange, 4,500 Redditors spent $185,000 December 2009: Reddit launches Selfserve Advertising October 2009: Steve Huffman left Reddit digg Ver.4 August 2010: Digg v4 released... July 2010: Reddit Gold launched August 2010: Reddit post's took over the homepage of Digg, starting the mass exodus to Reddit September 2010: Restoring Truthiness Campaign started on Reddit; ended up raising $600,000 for Donors Choose November 2010: December 2010: 2nd RedditGift exchange with 17,000+ participants spending over $660,000 Alexis Ohanian left and joined Steve Huffman to found Hipmunk the aam a billion 1 August 2011: Reddit acquires RedditGifts April 2011: February 2011: Surpassed 1 billion page views a month; average time on site 15 minutes 40 seconds Reddit over takes Digg in ranking Reddit Mothership billion 1.6 16 bilon September 2011: Hits: 1.6 billion page views a month September 2011: Condé Nast spun out Reddit as its own company 1.6 billion In a 7 months Reddit went from 1 billion pageviews a month to 1.6 billion. Reddit is a bit of a sausage party, ok not this kind of sausage. billion 19% Female 425 1% million Other 80% Male July 2010 February 2011 September 2011 08:00 I*1 Average time spent on Reddit Canadians waste more time on Reddit than any other country Popularity of Reddit vs length of articles on front page You can find anything on Reddit from a quick laugh to well written article, to porn, there is literally something for everyone Article length Popularity REDDIT GOLD A subscription to Reddit, which gives users access to a few new features Reddit Gold allowed the Reddit to bring 46 new services online, and many new staff were hired Conde Nast is a subscription-based company so Reddit Gold allowed Reddit to show Conde Nast how popular their site was The death of Digg really helped Reddit grow Before Digg v4 After Digg v4 launched Reddit hit 950,000 and kept growing launched Reddit was running 600,000 unique visitors a day There was a max exodus from Digg to Reddit RIP Generous People $45,000 raised for various charities when members of the Christianity, Atheism and Islam subreddit joined together $600,000+ raised by donors who chose to support public education $185,000 raised to Regularly the Reddit community comes together to support a fellow Redditor rebuild Haiti after the deadly 2010 earthquake in need After 7 year old Kathleen Edwards who was suffering from Huntington's disease was taunted by her neighbours, Reddit joined together to raise money for a toy shopping spree for her and local kids Random Acts of Pizza, a popular subreddit; created to help other people who just needed a helping hand, the rationale being that a simple pizza might be all it takes in the hospital Reddit is not just one community, it is a meeting place for many communities AAAA 83,000+ different subreddits and counting, 90% of visitors never make accounts although only 6,700 have more 90% of than 100 subscribers regular visitors who have accounts never vote Unlike other news aggregates, everyone has an equal opportunity to make it to the front page, whether you have been there forever or just made an account today What type of Redditors are you? The Lurker • 90% of Redditors do not have an account, never comment or upvote • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • The front page... Social Media Spammer: • Created a cool infographic and submitted it to Reddit in hope that the hivemind might like it • Spends way too much time on Reddit > Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Reddit.com > r/Todayilearned > r/Technology > r/Circlejerk The Fake News Junkie • Repeats things they saw on Reddit to their friends. • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Politics • rWorldNews • r/IAMA • r/FirstWorldProblems The Wannabe Comic • Spends all their time in the comments section; repeats other peoples jokes, begging for upvotes • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Funny > r/WTF • r/4chan The Novelty Account > Waits years just so that their novelty account name is funny or relevant > Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Pics > r/Reddit.com > r/AskReddit TL:DR • Will rarely read more than a few lines of an article • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Pics • r/TLDR • r/IAMA • r/Reddit.com The Liberal Douchbag • Democrats can do no The Reposter • Reposts content they found on another subreddit • Spends way too much wrong, and they want to make sure everyone knows it • Spends way too much time on Reddit time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe • Most likely to subscribe to: to: • r/Geek » r/Reddit.com • r/Funny • r/fffffffuuuuuu > r/Politics • r/AskReddit > r/Obama > r/Jailbait NSFW > fap fap fap... • Spends way too much The Digg Refugee • Found Reddit after Digg v4 killed Dig • Spends way too much time on Reddit time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Gonewild • r/NSFW > r/Sex • r/Rule34 • Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Gaming • r/WTF > r/Funny • r/Pics Amount of time procrastinating on Reddit instead of working on this infographic 07:42 78 TL:DR: Reddit is awesome sortable .com ||| | | | || || The Reddit lnvasion Reddit Timeline Y Combinator FAKE June 2005 Received $100k in funding from Y Combinator In the beginning Steve and Alexis submitted most of the links from many fake June 2005: Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian accounts after graduation from University of Virginia TM reddit kit open source CONDÉRNAST January 2008: Added the ability to allow anyone to create their own subreddits June 2008: October 2006: Bought by Condé Nast; had 500,000 daily unique views, for an estimated $20 million Became open source World Domination redditgifts December 2009: First RedditGift exchange, 4,500 Redditors spent $185,000 December 2009: Reddit launches Selfserve Advertising October 2009: Steve Huffman left Reddit digg Ver.4 August 2010: Digg v4 released... July 2010: Reddit Gold launched August 2010: Reddit post's took over the homepage of Digg, starting the mass exodus to Reddit September 2010: Restoring Truthiness Campaign started on Reddit; ended up raising $600,000 for Donors Choose November 2010: December 2010: 2nd RedditGift exchange with 17,000+ participants spending over $660,000 Alexis Ohanian left and joined Steve Huffman to found Hipmunk the aam a billion 1 August 2011: Reddit acquires RedditGifts April 2011: February 2011: Surpassed 1 billion page views a month; average time on site 15 minutes 40 seconds Reddit over takes Digg in ranking Reddit Mothership billion 1.6 16 bilon September 2011: Hits: 1.6 billion page views a month September 2011: Condé Nast spun out Reddit as its own company 1.6 billion In a 7 months Reddit went from 1 billion pageviews a month to 1.6 billion. Reddit is a bit of a sausage party, ok not this kind of sausage. billion 19% Female 425 1% million Other 80% Male July 2010 February 2011 September 2011 08:00 I*1 Average time spent on Reddit Canadians waste more time on Reddit than any other country Popularity of Reddit vs length of articles on front page You can find anything on Reddit from a quick laugh to well written article, to porn, there is literally something for everyone Article length Popularity REDDIT GOLD A subscription to Reddit, which gives users access to a few new features Reddit Gold allowed the Reddit to bring 46 new services online, and many new staff were hired Conde Nast is a subscription-based company so Reddit Gold allowed Reddit to show Conde Nast how popular their site was The death of Digg really helped Reddit grow Before Digg v4 After Digg v4 launched Reddit hit 950,000 and kept growing launched Reddit was running 600,000 unique visitors a day There was a max exodus from Digg to Reddit RIP Generous People $45,000 raised for various charities when members of the Christianity, Atheism and Islam subreddit joined together $600,000+ raised by donors who chose to support public education $185,000 raised to Regularly the Reddit community comes together to support a fellow Redditor rebuild Haiti after the deadly 2010 earthquake in need After 7 year old Kathleen Edwards who was suffering from Huntington's disease was taunted by her neighbours, Reddit joined together to raise money for a toy shopping spree for her and local kids Random Acts of Pizza, a popular subreddit; created to help other people who just needed a helping hand, the rationale being that a simple pizza might be all it takes in the hospital Reddit is not just one community, it is a meeting place for many communities AAAA 83,000+ different subreddits and counting, 90% of visitors never make accounts although only 6,700 have more 90% of than 100 subscribers regular visitors who have accounts never vote Unlike other news aggregates, everyone has an equal opportunity to make it to the front page, whether you have been there forever or just made an account today What type of Redditors are you? The Lurker • 90% of Redditors do not have an account, never comment or upvote • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • The front page... Social Media Spammer: • Created a cool infographic and submitted it to Reddit in hope that the hivemind might like it • Spends way too much time on Reddit > Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Reddit.com > r/Todayilearned > r/Technology > r/Circlejerk The Fake News Junkie • Repeats things they saw on Reddit to their friends. • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Politics • rWorldNews • r/IAMA • r/FirstWorldProblems The Wannabe Comic • Spends all their time in the comments section; repeats other peoples jokes, begging for upvotes • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Funny > r/WTF • r/4chan The Novelty Account > Waits years just so that their novelty account name is funny or relevant > Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Pics > r/Reddit.com > r/AskReddit TL:DR • Will rarely read more than a few lines of an article • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Pics • r/TLDR • r/IAMA • r/Reddit.com The Liberal Douchbag • Democrats can do no The Reposter • Reposts content they found on another subreddit • Spends way too much wrong, and they want to make sure everyone knows it • Spends way too much time on Reddit time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe • Most likely to subscribe to: to: • r/Geek » r/Reddit.com • r/Funny • r/fffffffuuuuuu > r/Politics • r/AskReddit > r/Obama > r/Jailbait NSFW > fap fap fap... • Spends way too much The Digg Refugee • Found Reddit after Digg v4 killed Dig • Spends way too much time on Reddit time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Gonewild • r/NSFW > r/Sex • r/Rule34 • Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Gaming • r/WTF > r/Funny • r/Pics Amount of time procrastinating on Reddit instead of working on this infographic 07:42 78 TL:DR: Reddit is awesome sortable .com ||| | | | || || The Reddit lnvasion Reddit Timeline Y Combinator FAKE June 2005 Received $100k in funding from Y Combinator In the beginning Steve and Alexis submitted most of the links from many fake June 2005: Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian accounts after graduation from University of Virginia TM reddit kit open source CONDÉRNAST January 2008: Added the ability to allow anyone to create their own subreddits June 2008: October 2006: Bought by Condé Nast; had 500,000 daily unique views, for an estimated $20 million Became open source World Domination redditgifts December 2009: First RedditGift exchange, 4,500 Redditors spent $185,000 December 2009: Reddit launches Selfserve Advertising October 2009: Steve Huffman left Reddit digg Ver.4 August 2010: Digg v4 released... July 2010: Reddit Gold launched August 2010: Reddit post's took over the homepage of Digg, starting the mass exodus to Reddit September 2010: Restoring Truthiness Campaign started on Reddit; ended up raising $600,000 for Donors Choose November 2010: December 2010: 2nd RedditGift exchange with 17,000+ participants spending over $660,000 Alexis Ohanian left and joined Steve Huffman to found Hipmunk the aam a billion 1 August 2011: Reddit acquires RedditGifts April 2011: February 2011: Surpassed 1 billion page views a month; average time on site 15 minutes 40 seconds Reddit over takes Digg in ranking Reddit Mothership billion 1.6 16 bilon September 2011: Hits: 1.6 billion page views a month September 2011: Condé Nast spun out Reddit as its own company 1.6 billion In a 7 months Reddit went from 1 billion pageviews a month to 1.6 billion. Reddit is a bit of a sausage party, ok not this kind of sausage. billion 19% Female 425 1% million Other 80% Male July 2010 February 2011 September 2011 08:00 I*1 Average time spent on Reddit Canadians waste more time on Reddit than any other country Popularity of Reddit vs length of articles on front page You can find anything on Reddit from a quick laugh to well written article, to porn, there is literally something for everyone Article length Popularity REDDIT GOLD A subscription to Reddit, which gives users access to a few new features Reddit Gold allowed the Reddit to bring 46 new services online, and many new staff were hired Conde Nast is a subscription-based company so Reddit Gold allowed Reddit to show Conde Nast how popular their site was The death of Digg really helped Reddit grow Before Digg v4 After Digg v4 launched Reddit hit 950,000 and kept growing launched Reddit was running 600,000 unique visitors a day There was a max exodus from Digg to Reddit RIP Generous People $45,000 raised for various charities when members of the Christianity, Atheism and Islam subreddit joined together $600,000+ raised by donors who chose to support public education $185,000 raised to Regularly the Reddit community comes together to support a fellow Redditor rebuild Haiti after the deadly 2010 earthquake in need After 7 year old Kathleen Edwards who was suffering from Huntington's disease was taunted by her neighbours, Reddit joined together to raise money for a toy shopping spree for her and local kids Random Acts of Pizza, a popular subreddit; created to help other people who just needed a helping hand, the rationale being that a simple pizza might be all it takes in the hospital Reddit is not just one community, it is a meeting place for many communities AAAA 83,000+ different subreddits and counting, 90% of visitors never make accounts although only 6,700 have more 90% of than 100 subscribers regular visitors who have accounts never vote Unlike other news aggregates, everyone has an equal opportunity to make it to the front page, whether you have been there forever or just made an account today What type of Redditors are you? The Lurker • 90% of Redditors do not have an account, never comment or upvote • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • The front page... Social Media Spammer: • Created a cool infographic and submitted it to Reddit in hope that the hivemind might like it • Spends way too much time on Reddit > Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Reddit.com > r/Todayilearned > r/Technology > r/Circlejerk The Fake News Junkie • Repeats things they saw on Reddit to their friends. • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Politics • rWorldNews • r/IAMA • r/FirstWorldProblems The Wannabe Comic • Spends all their time in the comments section; repeats other peoples jokes, begging for upvotes • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Funny > r/WTF • r/4chan The Novelty Account > Waits years just so that their novelty account name is funny or relevant > Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Pics > r/Reddit.com > r/AskReddit TL:DR • Will rarely read more than a few lines of an article • Spends way too much time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Pics • r/TLDR • r/IAMA • r/Reddit.com The Liberal Douchbag • Democrats can do no The Reposter • Reposts content they found on another subreddit • Spends way too much wrong, and they want to make sure everyone knows it • Spends way too much time on Reddit time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe • Most likely to subscribe to: to: • r/Geek » r/Reddit.com • r/Funny • r/fffffffuuuuuu > r/Politics • r/AskReddit > r/Obama > r/Jailbait NSFW > fap fap fap... • Spends way too much The Digg Refugee • Found Reddit after Digg v4 killed Dig • Spends way too much time on Reddit time on Reddit • Most likely to subscribe to: • r/Gonewild • r/NSFW > r/Sex • r/Rule34 • Most likely to subscribe to: > r/Gaming • r/WTF > r/Funny • r/Pics Amount of time procrastinating on Reddit instead of working on this infographic 07:42 78 TL:DR: Reddit is awesome sortable .com ||| | | | || ||