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Re:Failed HN Launch vs. Reddit Paid Advertising: Which Conve... by bsimpson63 on Friday December 06, 2013 @01:47PM (#6862779)
That's actually how it works. If you target an ad to /r/programming it will show up on the frontpage for users subscribed to /r/programming.
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Re:Failed HN Launch vs. Reddit Paid Advertising: Which Conve... by jeorgun on Friday December 06, 2013 @03:47PM (#6863673)
Which probably accounts (in part) for Reddit's low conversion rates— a significant portion of the page-views will be from people not in `programming-mode', compared with almost none from HN.
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Re:Failed HN Launch vs. Reddit Paid Advertising: Which Conve... by namecast on Friday December 06, 2013 @02:08PM (#6862969)
Confirmed by my referral logs. This is how it works.
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