If Reddit’s main source of revenue is from ads, then it deserves to go way down.

u/Far-East-locker · Reddit — r/ValueInvesting · February 07, 2026 at 07:53 · ⬆ 2 pts · 💬 7 comments  | View on Reddit ↗
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Author argues Reddit's ad product is low quality and advertisers will stop spending, so the stock deserves to fall.

RDDT — SHORT The author argues Reddit's main revenue source is ads, but Reddit ads deliver mostly bot traffic with no value, based on marketing subreddits and their own repeated experience. The mechanism is that advertisers who started in 2025 will realize the poor quality and stop spending, pressuring revenue and the stock. The stated risk is simply that the ad-quality judgment could be wrong.

If Reddit’s main source of revenue is from ads, then it deserves to go way down.

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Reddit ad quality poor, advertisers will leave
The author argues Reddit's main revenue source is ads, but Reddit ads deliver mostly bot traffic with no value, based on marketing subreddits and their own repeated experience. The mechanism is that advertisers who started in 2025 will realize the poor quality and stop spending, pressuring revenue and the stock. The stated risk is simply that the ad-quality judgment could be wrong.
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