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The blackout is starting to have a financial impact on Reddit, but we must stay dark! (www.adweek.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Jessica@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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If the performance weakness continues for a week or two, the agency would start recommending decreasing spend with Reddit or directing it to other platforms.

After the blackout, we will be closely monitoring user behavior on Reddit and guide clients when we can unpause,” said Freddy Dabaghi, managing director at Stagwell-backed Crispin Porter Bogusky, which has asked clients to stop campaigns, depending on their client goals.

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[-] OofShoot@beehaw.org 87 points 1 year ago

If I were world dictator I would just make advertising illegal. It's the perfect dictator move. Simple policy that's hard to enforce which will almost certainly have unintended consequences. But God damn do I hate advertising.

[-] Magrid@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

don't complain if all the free service become paid...

[-] Gravelsack@lemmy.one 18 points 1 year ago

I honestly think I'd prefer that they just let me pay them outright rather than trying to use me as bait for advertisers. The expectation that everything should be free leads to what we see today

[-] Magrid@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

meh, good point but i'd prefer some reasonably placed ad (not like those website that have 99% ad and 1% content) instead of paying for something that maybe i'll never use again

[-] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yea I wouldn't mind If some of these instances had like one stickied post at the top for a paid ad If that was enough to pay for most of these server costs