Reddit's Ad Changes Reduce Your ROI

Re:Reddit's Ad Changes Reduce Your ROI by Ntrails on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:53AM (#15236580)

I'm curious why you bother with up/down vote buttons on ads in subreddits when you just continue to show the damned things if I downvote the shitty clickbait ad?

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Re:Reddit's Ad Changes Reduce Your ROI by IMTDb on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @06:23AM (#15236979)

Because it makes ads look more like actual reddit posts. Like if ads are more "part of the subreddit" instead of being an additional separate entity.

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Re:Reddit's Ad Changes Reduce Your ROI by executesorder66 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @07:22AM (#15237209)

How do you tell the difference though? I use an adblocker, so I don't think I've ever seen these reddit ads, but I'd like to know what to look out for, if I disable my adblocker.

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Re:Reddit's Ad Changes Reduce Your ROI by Jarwain on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @08:34AM (#15237651)

https://imgur.com/1b3UTC4

Offcolour background, a little megaphone saying "promoted", all the way at the top of the subreddit, and offtopic (this ad was on /r/HFY)

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Re:Reddit's Ad Changes Reduce Your ROI by i_cant_speel on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @09:45AM (#15238152)

Without context, that image makes it look a little more sneaky than it actually is. Here is an image of an add on the page.

https://i.imgur.com/KqDwjY9.jpg

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Re:Reddit's Ad Changes Reduce Your ROI by krisdol on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @07:12AM (#15237167)

Because any interaction shows engagement.

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