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Today’s social media landscape is highly fragmented. If you are looking to better understand your market and build more brand awareness, focusing on just traditional social media channels won’t cut it anymore.
There are thousands of highly engaged, topic-based, and region-specific networks that create a growing pool of available data for brands to analyze. Reddit is one of them.
Reddit is massive. While the platform is reported to have 50 million unique daily users, Reddit’s website also attracts more than 1 billion unique visitors each month, as many people simply visit and use the website without registering or logging in. And that makes Reddit one of the most popular websites in the world.
According to Reddit, it’s a network of communities where people can dive into their interests, hobbies, and passions, and there's certainly a community for any topic, from finances to Dungeons & Dragons to mushrooms.
Reddit plays the role of an aggregator of content submitted by different people, using personal accounts and stories, making their posts much more authentic and relatable. Redditors, as Reddit users call themselves, use the platform in many ways, including to seek help with a specific issue, to stay informed about their favorite topics, and to stay connected with other people who share their interests.
While user demographics on Reddit skew towards a younger audience, the platform provides space for all kinds of unique topics of interest, users, and communities, making it easier to uncover insights otherwise difficult to find elsewhere.
On Reddit users can submit posts, and other users can ‘upvote’ or ‘downvote’ those posts based on their liking. All submissions are curated by the Reddit community; posts that get upvotes, move up the Reddit rankings and get seen by more people. Those posts that get downvotes, get buried by new content, so you’ll have to do a lot of scrolling to get to them.
This system allows Redditors to have more control of the content they see in their feeds, and that makes Reddit different from other social platforms, where social posts with more engagement – negative or positive – usually get seen by more people.
Reddit is split into sub-communities known as subreddits and written as ‘r/:’, which are created by users and cover a wide range of topics. Each subreddit contributes to the overall list of submissions, and a post in any subreddit (except private ones) can potentially reach the front page of the website (the ultimate goal of a brand if the feedback is positive).
Niche community conversations are particularly rich in insights because that’s where people go to discuss specific topics, events, ideas, brands, and products with like-minded individuals. Because of affinity to an interest area, targeted forum discussions usually get high engagement as well. Issues or trends often first surface in forums before they are amplified across social media.
There’s also a wealth of insights when it comes to finding reasons why consumers do what they do. People go to forums to talk about the products and services they love or hate, and the conversation is usually rich in detail, and because Reddit has a forum-style discussion structure, topics shared on Reddit get a lot of interaction in threads, where people often share and weigh their concerns and opinions.
This makes finding relevant conversations on the topics that matter to you much easier, and it makes it possible to study specific demographics.
There are many reasons why brands should incorporate Reddit into their social listening strategy. Here are four important use cases for you to consider:
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