Warm up
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- What industry do you work in and what is your role?
- What are your responses in your role / position?
- Can you describe to the function of your workplace / company?
- How many departments, how many offices. National or International?
- What are the minimum requirements for employment ie Education or Experience?
- How many opportunities are there to ‘move up the ladder’?
- What is the process for changing job roles ie Interview? Test?
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General discussion about your workweek:
- Current projects? Deadlines? Opportunities?
- Anything of interest happening?
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Reddit (/ˈrɛdɪt/, stylized in all lowercase) is a social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website.
Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, and images, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called “communities” or “subreddits”, which cover a variety of topics such as news, politics, science, movies, video games, music, books, sports, fitness, cooking, pets, and image-sharing. Submissions with more up-votes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough up-votes, ultimately on the site’s front page. Despite strict rules prohibiting harassment, Reddit’s administrators spend considerable resources on moderating the site.[5]
As of February 2021, Reddit ranks as the 18th-most-visited website in the world and 7th most-visited website in the US, according to Alexa Internet. About 42-49.3% of its user base comes from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 7.9-8.2% and Canada at 5.2-7.8%.[6][7]
1. Reddit has raised a new funding round, totalling $250 million. This is the company’s Series E round of financing, and it comes hot on the heels of renewed public attention on the site that has dubbed itself ‘the front page of the Internet,’ owing to the role the subreddit r/WallStreetBets played in the recent meteoric rise (and subsequent steep fall) of the value of GameStop stock.
2. Reddit also ran a 5-second Super Bowl ad on Sunday, consisting of a single static image that looked like a standard post on the network itself.
3. This is Reddit’s 16th year of operation, and the company has raised around $800 million to date, including a Tencent-led $300 million Series D in February, 2019. Today’s round included financing from “existing and new investors,” Reddit noted in a blog post in which it announced the funding.
4. In the post, Reddit notes that the company felt “now was the right opportunity to make strategic investments in Reddit including video, advertising, consumer products and expanding into international markets.”
5. It’s unclear how the round came together exactly, but given the network’s time in the spotlight over the past few weeks, culminating in yesterday’s very brief, but also very memorable and high-profile ad, it seems likely it was at least finalized fast in order to help the company make the most of its time in the spotlight.
6. In terms of what kind of specific moves Reddit could make with its new cash on hand, the blog post also name-checked its acquisition late last year of short video sharing platform Dubsmash, and announced plans to double its team over the course of this year with new hires.
7. Reddit’s long history has also included some significant tumult, and efforts to clean up its act in order to present a better face to advertisers, and to potential new community members. The network still struggles with balancing its commitments to fostering a home for a range of communities with the potential for hate speech and discrimination to take root within some of these.
8. And it was also in the news earlier this year for finally banning controversial subreddit r/donaldtrump following “repeat´d policy violations” surrounding the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by a mob of domestic terrorists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubsmash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#Controversies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities
https://blog.oneupapp.io/biggest-subreddits/
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Rank |
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Subscribers |
|
1 |
80,972,327 |
|
|
2 |
34,942,903 |
|
|
3 |
30,987,366 |
|
|
4 |
29,099,784 |
|
|
5 |
27,792,097 |
|
|
6 |
26,758,361 |
|
|
7 |
26,482,511 |
|
|
8 |
25,820,102 |
|
|
9 |
25,609,819 |
|
|
10 |
24,642,802 |
|
|
11 |
24,500,738 |
|
|
12 |
24,414,252 |
|
|
13 |
22,551,097 |
|
|
14 |
21,622,523 |
|
|
15 |
20,815,057 |
|
|
16 |
20,707,631 |
|
|
17 |
20,696,773 |
|
|
18 |
20,631,790 |
|
|
19 |
20,217,290 |
|
|
20 |
19,882,857 |
|
|
21 |
18,933,482 |
|
|
22 |
18,905,576 |
|
|
23 |
18,891,054 |
|
|
24 |
18,847,275 |
|
|
25 |
18,479,815 |
|
|
26 |
18,481,767 |
|
|
27 |
18,416,881 |
|
|
28 |
18,383,761 |
|
|
29 |
17,983,596 |
|
|
30 |
17,856,839 |
|
|
31 |
17,795,689 |
Discussion
1. What’s the most popular/expensive time to advertise on TV, comparable to Half-time in the U.S? What are some very famous tv advertisements?
2. Were you or are you a member of any forums? What were/are the most popular message boards / forums in Japan?
3.
What interest groups would you be likely to visit if you were to use such a site, cooking/travel, etc?
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