Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts
seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de 2 months ago
Early results suggest the effort is working. According to numbers from Reddit, free-form ads got 28% more clicks than all other types of ads on the site and saw a jump in community engagement.
Yeah, because users get tricked into clicking and then immediately leave.
gregorum@lemm.ee 2 months ago
But not before commenting, “fuck you, spez!”
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Which counts as engagement.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And doesn’t bother Steve Huffman because you’re using his Reddit username, and by doing that you’re talking about Reddit, effectively promoting it. Stop using “spez” and start making it so Steve Huffman has trouble giving his real name to a real hotel, restaurant, etc. because they say “oh, that asshole?”.