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May 21, 2016

Reddit Ads Mobile Targeting

Reddit Ads added mobile targeting to the Reddit Advertising Platform. This allows you to develop campaigns that target desktop users, mobile users, or users on both types of devices. To setup a mobile ads campaign you’ll need a new image for your post that Reddit wants to be exactly 1200×678 in size. This image will display on some devices while the normal thumbnail will display on other devices.

Mobile targeting is available for only iOS and Android operating systems and doesn’t break targeting down by browser on the operation systems. After setting your creative you’ll be taken to the targeting screen for your ad. On this screen the default target is the radio button next to desktop. Select the radio button for ‘both’ or ‘mobile’ to setup mobile targeting. Once you’ve done this you’ll be able to deselect checkboxes next to Android or iOS operating systems.

Important Note: Reddit mobile ads will not show up on m.reddit.com via a desktop browser. This advertising target will also not get your ad into reddit mobile apps like Reddit Is Fun or Alien Blue.

Reddit mobile ads should be great for driving traffic to mobile friendly websites and for engaging the Reddit community about your mobile app. Unfortunately their mobile offering doesn’t offer much tracking data or conversion targets.

Still this new targeting option will allow marketers to setup campaigns to target mobile content versus desktop content and optimize as such.

Screenshot of Reddit mobile ads example. This was taken on a Samsung Galaxy S6 using the default browser.

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Reddit Ads Updates

May 11, 2016

Automatic Extension of Reddit Ads

Reddit Ads added a feature yesterday that allows ads with budget left over to automatically extend. Before this update if for some reason your budget wasn’t spent during your campaign you had to setup an entirely new campaign, which was really painstaking.

All new ads are defaulted to the automatic extensions. If you don’t want your ads to automatically extend you’ll need to uncheck the box while setting up your campaign.

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Reddit Ads Updates

May 10, 2016

Multi-Subreddit Targeting

You can now target your ads to more than one subreddit with an advertising campaign. This has long been a desire for marketers on the Reddit platform.

To add more than one subreddit start by creating the creative for your ad. Once you’ve gotten the text, link, and images out of the way you’ll be taken to the next step where you can do targeting. Here you’ll see a radio button for your campaign to target reddit users by ‘interest’ groupings or subreddits.

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Select subreddits and you’ll now be able to add your desired targets in the box. You can add subreddit targets by either typing out the subreddit or clicking on one that is suggested for you.
Important Note: when typing a subreddit out don’t include the /r/ part of the subreddit and make sure to type enter afterwards to make sure the system adds your subreddit target.

There are some limitations. You can’t target more than 100 subreddits and you currently still can’t target a campaign to the Frontpage and to subreddits as well.

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