Re:Reddit Strike Has Started
by themagician on Sunday June 11, 2023 @05:41PM
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The power trip is enough for most people. And for the right subs, brands approach you with outrageous offers. It can EASILY make you six figures *a month. When I read, it was much smaller. Years ago when reddit it was much smaller and I was working for an agency. We paid $60,000 just for 2-3 months of “posting support”. It amounted to something like 12 posts. I know first hand how much some mods get compensated. And this wasn’t even a major subreddit.
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If this is true, this sounds like a bad deal for Reddit. If I were them, I'd want my cut.
Re:Reddit Strike Has Started
by cellularmitosis on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:22AM
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What are they paying for? For the mod to look the other way for certain corporate spam posts?
Re:Reddit Strike Has Started
by anthonypasq on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:25AM
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guerrilla marketing on reddit is rampant. the days of trusting reddit comments for product reviews has long been over.
Re:Reddit Strike Has Started
by themagician on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:41PM
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Yes. That’s basically all we paid for. We also asked for some help coming up with ideas for posts which ended up being like a 10 slide presentation. Mostly around wording, popular memes on the sub and a few ideas about what would feel “organic”.
We also hired a well known Reddit power user to actually post the content. Which is also common. Those people get paid very little by comparison though. Like $50-100 a post. But they post a lot and have a lot of alts.
When you see a post that’s, “My girlfriend just got me this,” and there is a product in the person’s hand and the label is perfectly centered and in focus… there is no girlfriend. Someone paid for that.