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Reddit posts 53% revenue growth, guides to about 40% in Q4 as Google traffic slides and logged-in-only shift looms

Executives said the company will test and then adopt a logged-in-only platform, while attributing falling search referrals to Google's AI mode.

Reddit's third-quarter revenue rose 53% year over year to $895 million, with a 45% adjusted EBITDA margin, Chief Financial Officer Drew Vollero said Thursday on the company's earnings call, as executives said Reddit will move to a logged-in-only platform to offset declining referral traffic from Google.

Logged-in-only shift

CEO Steve Huffman said the move to require logins is a test but also a commitment. "This is a test but we are going to make this transition," he said. He listed several reasons: personalized recommendations, better ad targeting, protecting Reddit's data from scraping, and adapting to emerging regulations. The test will run in "a few markets outside the us," he said. Huffman acknowledged a trade-off, saying Reddit will "likely be trading reach for engagement." Some version of Reddit will remain accessible before a login prompt, he said, and the test aims to find where to draw that boundary. Asked about content licensing, he said the shift "doesn't change" the company's perspective and that any deal must be "a fair exchange of value," which could include not doing a deal.

Google traffic and user trends

Huffman said the biggest hypothesis for falling search referrals is Google's AI Overviews and AI mode, which he said "does not drive traffic." A second factor, he said, is that Reddit's machine-translated content appears to be ranked lower, mainly affecting markets outside the U.S. He said "reddit is still among the most searched words on google," so demand for the site has not changed. Total sessions are down because of the search decline, Huffman said, but logged-in and app engagement is growing. Reddit increased international user marketing spending partly to offset lost search reach, executives said. Huffman said new-user retention is up more than 50% year over year.

Financials and outlook

Advertising revenue was $847 million, up 54%, and other revenue was $48 million, up 35%, Vollero said. U.S. revenue grew 50% and international revenue 67%. Average revenue per unique user rose 36% to $6.87. Free cash flow was $363 million, a 41% margin, and cash and investments topped $3 billion. Net income was $283 million, or $1.40 per diluted share. For the fourth quarter, Reddit guided to revenue of $1 billion to $1.03 billion, or 38% to 42% growth, and adjusted EBITDA of $480 million to $510 million. Vollero said Reddit's next internal revenue goal is $5 billion. On third-quarter upside that was smaller than in prior quarters, Vollero cited some September days on which Reddit could not deliver all bookings.

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REDDIT CEO: Q3 REVENUE GROWTH 53%

REDDIT CEO: CROSSED $3 BILLION IN REVENUE OVER LAST TWELVE MONTHS

REDDIT CEO: OCT SEARCH TRAFFIC DOWN BY MORE THAN 1 MILLION REFERRALS ON AVERAGE PER WEEK

REDDIT CEO: Q4 TOTAL DAUQS COULD FALL LOW DOUBLE DIGITS FROM 130 MILLION IF TRENDS CONTINUE

REDDIT CEO: NEW-USER WEEK-ONE APP RETURN RATE UP OVER 50% YEAR OVER YEAR

REDDIT CEO: TO BEGIN TESTING LOGGED-IN-ONLY REDDIT IN SELECT MARKETS OUTSIDE U.S. IN Q4

REDDIT CEO: ONLY ABOUT 13% OF ELIGIBLE MOBILE WEB USERS SEEING APP CONVERSION PROMPT

REDDIT CFO: Q3 ADVERTISING REVENUE UP 54% YOY TO $847 MILLION

REDDIT CFO: Q3 CLICK VOLUME GREW OVER 50%, CONVERSION VOLUME MORE THAN TRIPLED YOY

REDDIT CFO: Q3 US AD REVENUE UP 51% YOY, INTERNATIONAL AD REVENUE UP 68%

REDDIT CFO: Q3 SCALED REVENUE GREW MORE THAN 80% YOY, MID-MARKET ACTIVE ADVERTISERS UP 50%+

REDDIT CFO: Q3 REDDIT MAX ADVERTISER ADOPTION MORE THAN TRIPLED QUARTER OVER QUARTER

REDDIT CFO: Q3 VIDEO VIEWS FASTEST-GROWING OBJECTIVE, REVENUE MORE THAN DOUBLED YOY

REDDIT CFO: Q3 ADS API ECOSYSTEM REVENUE GREW MORE THAN 45% QUARTER OVER QUARTER

REDDIT CFO: B2B ADVERTISERS USING NEW AUDIENCES SAW ABOUT 7% AVERAGE CPA IMPROVEMENT

REDDIT CFO: Q3 FREE CASH FLOW $363 MILLION, UP 98% YOY; FCF MARGIN 41%

REDDIT CFO: Q3 REVENUE $895 MILLION, UP 53% YOY; GROSS MARGIN 91.5%, ADJ EBITDA MARGIN 45%

REDDIT CFO: Q3 CASH AND INVESTMENTS TOPPED $3 BILLION FOR FIRST TIME

REDDIT CFO: Q3 ADVERTISING REVENUE $847 MILLION, UP 54% YOY; OTHER REVENUE $48 MILLION, UP 35%

REDDIT CFO: Q3 ADJ COSTS AND EXPENSES $493 MILLION, UP 41% YOY; HEADCOUNT UP 12% YOY

REDDIT CFO: Q3 NET INCOME $283 MLN, $1.40/DILUTED SHR VS $163 MLN, $0.80 YR AGO

REDDIT CFO: Q4 REVENUE SEEN $1.00 BLN-$1.03 BLN, 38%-42% YOY GROWTH; ADJ EBITDA $480-$510 MLN

REDDIT CFO: Q3 TAX EXPENSE ABOUT $5.8 MILLION, EFFECTIVE TAX RATE ABOUT 2%

REDDIT CEO: MOVING TO LOGGED-IN ONLY EXPERIENCE; CITES BETTER AD TARGETING, DATA PROTECTION

REDDIT CEO: TO TEST LOGIN WALLS IN A FEW MARKETS OUTSIDE US; 80% OF MONETIZATION IS LOGGED-IN

REDDIT: Q3 AD CLICK VOLUME UP OVER 50% YOY, CONVERSION VOLUME TRIPLED

REDDIT CEO: GOOGLE AI MODE ROLLOUT, LOWER RANKING OF MACHINE-TRANSLATED CONTENT HURTING TRAFFIC

REDDIT EXEC: APP INSTALL CAMPAIGNS EARLY, RETENTION EQUIVALENT TO ORGANIC USERS

REDDIT CEO: LOGGED-IN ONLY IS A TEST BUT 'WE ARE GOING TO MAKE THIS TRANSITION'

REDDIT EXEC: CORPUS AT 27 BLN POSTS AND COMMENTS; TOTAL SESSIONS DOWN ON LOWER SEARCH REFERRAL

REDDIT CEO: NO UPDATE ON AI LICENSING DEALS, IN ACTIVE TALKS; NOT DOING A DEAL IS POSSIBLE

REDDIT CEO: GOOGLE AI MODE 'DOES NOT DRIVE TRAFFIC'; GOOGLE CRAWLING REDDIT 'AS HARD AS EVER'

REDDIT CEO: FEED MODEL SIGNAL GROWN BY AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; 'ANOTHER YEAR OF RUNWAY'

REDDIT EXEC: 'PRETTY SKEPTICAL' OF GEO; ADVERTISING FOR LLM VISIBILITY NOT PART OF PARTNERSHIPS

REDDIT CEO: NOT PURSUING SERIOUS ACQUISITION FOR USERS, 'NOT ON OUR RADAR RIGHT NOW'

REDDIT EXEC: NEW USER RETENTION UP OVER FIFTY PERCENT YOY; PLANS INCOGNITO MODE IN APP

REDDIT EXEC: SHOWED MOBILE WEB-TO-APP CONVERSION PROMPT TO ABOUT 13% OF ELIGIBLE AUDIENCE IN Q

REDDIT EXEC: EXPECTS APP, LOGGED-IN AND TOTAL DAO TO 'MORE OR LESS CONVERGE' OVER TIME

REDDIT EXEC: Q3 REVENUE GREW 53%; ENTERED QUARTER WITH ABOUT 50% OF BUSINESS BOOKED

REDDIT EXEC: SOME SEPTEMBER BOOKINGS 'WEREN'T ABLE TO DELIVER' ON A COUPLE OF PEAK DAYS IN Q3

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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said third-quarter revenue grew 53%, "something few companies are doing," on top of nearly 70% growth last year. He spoke Thursday on the company's earnings call.Said 4:33:28 PM ET · drafted 4:33:48 PM ET
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said on the company's earnings call that "our search referral traffic was down meaningfully in q3, with the decline accelerating later in the quarter." He said the declines continued into early Q4.Said 4:34:20 PM ET · drafted 4:34:59 PM ET
Reddit said that if search referral declines continue, "total dauqs could fall in q4 by a low double digit percentage from our current base of 130 million dauqs." Reddit reported the outlook Thursday.Said 4:35:01 PM ET · drafted 4:36:57 PM ET
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said the percentage of new users who return the first week after installing the app is "up double digits quarter over quarter and over 50% year over year."Said 4:36:15 PM ET · drafted 4:38:02 PM ET
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said shifting the platform to a logged-in-only experience is "a big one for us and it's a big one for me." He said it brings more signals for ads targeting and protects its data.Said 4:38:31 PM ET · drafted 4:39:08 PM ET
Reddit's chief financial officer said Thursday that "max advertiser adoption more than tripled quarter over quarter." Reddit Max entered public beta in the third quarter, he said on the earnings call.Said 4:42:55 PM ET · drafted 4:43:14 PM ET
Reddit's CFO said scaled revenue "grew more than 80% year over year in q3." The speaker also said mid-market active advertisers grew more than 50% year over year.Said 4:41:32 PM ET · drafted 4:45:36 PM ET
Reddit increased international user marketing spend in the third quarter, in part to compensate for "the loss reached from the declines of search referral traffic," a company executive said on its earnings call.Said 4:48:09 PM ET · drafted 4:48:47 PM ET
Reddit CFO Drew Vollero said free cash flow margin reached 41% in Q3, with free cash flow of $363 million, up 98% year over year: "Our free cash flow margin reached 41% in q3."Said 4:49:03 PM ET · drafted 4:51:56 PM ET
Reddit said domestic web user marketing spend "has proven effective at bringing users to reddit but low retention rates have hurt roi," CFO Drew Vollero told analysts on the third-quarter earnings call.Said 4:52:19 PM ET · drafted 4:53:08 PM ET
Reddit estimates fourth-quarter 2026 revenue of "$1 billion to $1.03 billion," CFO Drew Vollero said on the company's earnings call Thursday.Said 4:54:55 PM ET · drafted 4:55:48 PM ET
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said one reason for moving to logged-in-only users is data protection: "The vast majority of the scraping and stealing of reddit happens in our logout user base."Said 4:58:42 PM ET · drafted 4:58:59 PM ET
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said the company will "likely be trading reach for engagement" as it moves to logged-in-only access. He said "80% of the monetization of reddit happens within our app and logged in cohort."Said 4:59:03 PM ET · drafted 5:00:07 PM ET
Reddit executive Jen Wong said "we feel really good about our headroom here in terms of arpu" on an earnings call. She said there is "a lot of headroom" between Reddit's average revenue per user and Meta's.Said 5:00:54 PM ET · drafted 5:01:25 PM ET
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode have grown from "a feature" into "the full search experience" and push "everyone down the search page."Said 5:03:09 PM ET · drafted 5:03:34 PM ET
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said Google is "teaching people that if you want to come to reddit you need to come to reddit," calling falling Google referrals in line with the company's direct-destination strategy.Said 5:04:17 PM ET · drafted 5:04:37 PM ET
A Reddit executive said early results from app install campaigns, mainly in the U.S., show retention "equivalent to our organic users." The executive said it is "early in terms of scale."Said 5:04:37 PM ET · drafted 5:05:38 PM ET
"This is a test but we are going to make this transition," Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said on the earnings call, referring to a shift to logged-in-only access.Said 5:07:02 PM ET · drafted 5:09:29 PM ET
A Reddit executive said total sessions are down, attributing the decline to search referral traffic. "We're growing where accounts," the executive said, adding that time on-site "has been solid."Said 5:08:08 PM ET · drafted 5:10:32 PM ET
A Reddit executive told a Piper Sandler analyst that "the arpu potential of reddit is as good as anybody," citing a more affluent user base with more purchasing power.Said 5:12:57 PM ET · drafted 5:14:07 PM ET
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said the company plans to organize its feed by content type and mood: "We're gonna actually just label these things. Here's trending, here's news, here's some games, here's some memes."Said 5:16:46 PM ET · drafted 5:17:10 PM ET
"The AI Mode does not drive traffic, not for us and not to anybody as far as I know," Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said on an earnings call Thursday, referring to Google. He said it "used to be a traffic driver now it's not."Said 5:18:43 PM ET · drafted 5:19:42 PM ET
Reddit executive on advertisers seeking to appear in LLM training data: "We're pretty skeptical of GEO." It is "not a core piece of what we do with our advertising partners today," the executive said.Said 5:22:01 PM ET · drafted 5:22:22 PM ET
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said the company has not made a serious acquisition for users and that one is "not on our radar right now." He said new user retention is "up over 50% year on year."Said 5:23:25 PM ET · drafted 5:24:31 PM ET
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said an incognito mode, "basically a private browsing mode in our app," is expected to help with users who uninstall and reinstall the app, on the company's Oct. 29 earnings call.Said 5:24:18 PM ET · drafted 5:25:30 PM ET
"The reason we're doing the test is to learn the answers to these questions," a Reddit executive said when asked on an earnings call how to model logged-in-only access and whether it would block scraping.Said 5:26:17 PM ET · drafted 5:26:29 PM ET
A Reddit executive said on its Oct. 29 earnings call that "over 80% of our revenue comes from logged in users." He said a logged-in-only Reddit would "for sure" make scraping harder.Said 5:26:29 PM ET · drafted 5:27:33 PM ET
Reddit executive: "We would expect app and logged in and total DAO to probably more or less converge," adding that the gap would be "plus or minus some small percent" in the long term.Said 5:29:11 PM ET · drafted 5:29:34 PM ET
A Reddit executive said on the company's earnings call that third-quarter revenue grew 53%. "We still enter the quarter with about 50% of our business booked," he said.Said 5:30:46 PM ET · drafted 5:30:54 PM ET
A Reddit executive said strong September demand left some bookings undelivered on a couple of days. "There was some bookings that we weren't able to deliver on a couple of days," the executive said on the earnings call.Said 5:31:10 PM ET · drafted 5:32:14 PM ET

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In Reddit's 21

years,

the

Internet has been a lot of the

changed in the United

welcome to our quarterly earnings call in reddit's

that we have been able to do

ways

that

would

have

been

impossible to

to

twenty one years the internet has changed in ways that would have been impossible to predict

predict.

We've gone from

flip

phones to the

smart

phones

to personal

AI.

we've gone from flip phones to smartphones to personal ai agents

agents.

And through

it

all,

Reddit has a lot of different

also been very important

always

owned the

own

corner of the

and through it all reddit has always owned our own corner of the internet

Internet,

offering

people

something

that

no one else

can

offering people something that no one else does

does.

Social media has a lot of people who are not going to be

has

evolved from the

friends to be able to have a lot of people who

to

the

and family to

followers and

famous

social media has evolved from friends and families to followers and famous people

people.

I think that's a good idea.

And from status

updates to the

mind less than the

screen, links are going to be

scroll.

Web search is a

evolving

from

a

and from status updates to the mindless scroll

gateway to the

web

to become a web

an

AI.

AI-powered

web search is evolving from a gateway to the web

destination

to becoming an ai powered destination itself

itself.

While extraordinarily useful, it's a very important thing to

it is

and

powerful.

AI

search

solves

a

different

while extraordinarily useful and powerful

problem

than

Reddit.

AI does not

fulfill people's

ai search solves a different problem than reddit ai does not fulfill people's

fundamental

need

for

community

connection

and

belonging

with

other

people.

And it lets you know

lacks

fundamental need for community connection and belonging with other people

context and needs to be a very important

and it lacks context and nuance

and

nuance.

The Reddit

experience

captures

the

human

experience in a way that's

not good

that

no

other platform is able to do

can be

the reddit experience captures the human experience

in a way that no other platform can replicate

replicate.

Only

Reddit

can help

people

navigate the

life

life's

journey through

the

lens

of other

only reddit can help people navigate life's journey

people's living

lived

through the lens of other people's lived experiences

experiences.

Only

Reddit

can have a lot of

help

you feel

both

like

a

multifaceted

unique

only reddit can help you feel both like a multifaceted

individual in the

and

a part of the

a

greater

whole.

And do so without

needing

unique individual and a part of a greater whole

to

reveal

your

real

world

and do so without needing to reveal your real world identity

identity.

That's

why

Reddit is a very good

an

older

has a lot of

been

a development of

distinct

and

that's why reddit is and always has been

direct

a distinct and direct destination

destination.

People seek

out

Reddit because it's a very important thing to

because

we

meet

a

universal need for the need for the need for the need for

They

simply can't do

get

people seek out reddit because we meet a universal need

anywhere

else on the

Our work is a very important thing to

work

now

is

about the same

down the

they simply can't get anywhere else online our work now

on what we're

makes

Reddit rather than a lot of the

Reddit

and

making

Reddit

more of

daily

about doubling down on what makes reddit reddit and making reddit more of a daily habit

a

habit.

We can come into the middle of the media.

We come into that

work

with clearly the work that we have

clear advantages

and

revenue

we come into that work with

momentum in the

business.

And you can see

that in the

exceptional

clear advantages and revenue momentum in the business

commercial

results

we deliver the

in

first

third

the

quarter.

and you can see that in the exceptional commercial results we delivered in the third quarter

We generated 50% of the

of the

revenue from the

growth, something like

fewer than

companies have been able to

are

doing.

And it's

we generated fifty three percent revenue growth something few companies are doing

even more

significant when

you

can

consider

that's

on

top of the

nearly

60% of the

millions

the

revenue

and it's even more significant when you consider that's on top of nearly seventy

growth

last

year.

percent revenue growth last year

Those

results

included the rest of the

Q3 helped us to get a lot of the

us create new version QR

cross

3

billion

in the United

revenue over the

last

12

those results in q3 helped us cross three billion dollars in revenue

twelve

months.

Our

margins,

which

are

already

in the middle of the

extended the

a few

the

the last twelve months our margins which are already industry leading

across

expanded across the board

the

board.

Reddit's continued to be a very important thing to

growth

at

scale

is proof of the scale of the scale

the

strength of the

our

reddit's continued growth at scale is proof of

business,

the demand for the

our

platform, and

and

the value of

our

we

put in the

as

the strength of our business the demand for our platform

and the value we provide advertisers

advertisers.

And it's that

consistent

delivery

of

growth

and

profitability

that earns the

us

a place in the

and it's that consistent delivery of growth and profitability

S

P

500

index

earlier this

that earned us a place in the s and p five hundred index earlier this year

this

year.

Earlier this

quarter excuse

earlier this quarter excuse me

me.

Yeah,

while

our

business continues to be a lot of the same

to grow

while our business continues to grow significantly

significantly, Internet is a

services

search

and how to do

people decide do

the

things

online

continues to be a lot of

change

rapidly

internet search and how people discover things online

and

continues to change rapidly and significantly

significantly.

Our search referral to the first

are not

traffic was the first time that we

to

done

meaningfully in the middle of the

Q3.

with the

decline in the US, the QR code is a very important

except the

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2013, 2023 is a very important

the the

our search referral traffic was down meaningfully in q3

later

in

course of

the

with the decline accelerating later in the quarter

quarter.

The biggest

impact of the market is the most

was

on

logged

out

and logged

went

web

traffic.

the biggest impact was on logged out and web traffic

but some of the impacts were not a lot of the

was on

not

were a same

flows through the

to

logged

in

and

applied to the

traffic.

but some of the impact flows through to logged in and app traffic

since

search referral

is

a

common source of the

re-engagement

for

users.

since search referral is a common source of reengagement for users

The company

helped us to use the

offer

offset

the

decline in

by

both

driving

reach

the company helped to offset the declines by both driving reach

primarily

through

user

marketing

and

also

by

continuing

to

improve

the

primarily through user marketing and also by continuing to improve the product

product.

These declines have been

continued to produce

the

to

in the production of the production of

early

part of the

Q4.

During October 2012, the Quran was a very important part

these declines have continued into the early part of q4

2014, the Q is thing to

we

have

seen

that

search traffic.

has

dropped

by more

than

1

during october we have seen that search traffic has dropped

million refers to the

on

and

average per

week.

If this

rate is a rate of

the referral

cost

by more than one million referrals on average per week

is a very important rate of

continues to be

a very

important

current trends are not

would suggest that the market is not a very important

suggest

if this rate of decline continues

that

total

DAUQs could be

fall in

current trends would suggest that total dauqs could fall in q4

Q4

by

a

low

double

digit

percentage for the QR

a

current

base

of a hundred

$130

million

by a low double digit percentage from our current base of one hundred and thirty million dauqs

DAUQs.

however

However,

search for the

referral traffic.

trends do not have a lot of reference

search for search for search for

determine the

our

relevancy

and

they do not release the relevant

determine relevance of our

search referral trends do not determine our relevancy

define

our

future.

Logged in and

app

DAO

are

a lot of

most

and they do not define our future logged in

valuable

users

and

they

are

our primary

and app dial are our most valuable users and they are our primary focus

focus.

And

we grew up with the

logged

in

and asked for

to the

dial

sequentially.

and we grew logged in and app dial sequentially

Together, these

make

up

the

vast majority of the

power power

engagement.

and over 80% of the

together these make up the vast majority of engagement

monetization

on

and over eighty percent of the monetization on reddit

Reddit.

Growing this

high value is a very good

audience a lot of the production of the

spending a

to the

story of

the

Reddit as

a

growing this high value audience speaks to the strength of reddit as a destination

destination.

And this is the first

what

matters for the

last

longest

long-term health of the

United

our

platform

and

our

and this is what matters for the long term health of our platform and our business

business.

So as we look at the business, we have

a

we're going to lot of

our threat is a very important

lot

to

make

Reddit

a

so as we look ahead

direct

daily

habit

for

more

people

is

our strategy to make reddit a direct daily habit for more people is simple

simple.

Make Red

Reddit

awesome.

Grow

community

and

make reddit awesome grow community and belonging

belonging.

and

bring

in

new

and bring in new audiences

audiences.

Making Reddit

awesome

means making a lot of

it

more

relevant to the

and easier to

making reddit awesome means making it more relevant

and easier to navigate

navigate.

Getting to

personalization

faster

and creates a lot of

fun

new

experiences

on

getting to personalization faster and creating fun new experiences on reddit

Reddit.

This will both

improve the rest of the rest of the

retention

of new

users and the

use

and

deepen

engagement

of

our

core

this will both improve retention of new users and

users.

Our work in MLC is a very important thing to

feeds and

app

performance is a very important

delivered to the

deepen engagement of our core users our work in ml feeds and app

delivering

results.

The percentage of the results are the most

new

users who receive a new

to the

first

week after the user is using the

performance is delivering results the percentage of new users who return

installing

the

Reddit

app

is

up

double

digits

quarter

over

quarter and

over 50% of the

the first week after installing the reddit app is up double digits quarter over quarter

percent

you

over

and over fifty percent year over year

year.

Video creation

and

consumption are a very good

both

up to the

and

as

are

chained

video

video creation and consumption are both up

as our chain video views

views.

We'll continue our

work in the

these

areas in the next

coming

quarters and

I'm particularly

excited to be able to do

about the

we'll continue our work in these areas in the coming quarters

some

of

the

areas

we'll

be

testing

to make sure that we're going to be able to

the

core

feed

experience more

and i'm particularly excited about some of the areas we'll be testing to make the core feed experience

consistent

and

predictable.

And

to

grow

some

of

our new

experiences

like games.

and video.

more consistent and predictable and to grow some of our new experiences

visual

like games and visual podcasts

podcasts.

To grow

community

and belong to the

we

been

making

it easier to

for the

create

grow, and

to grow community and belonging we've been making it easier to

create a new creative

contribute to the

communities

on

Reddit.

This

quarter,

we've continued to

do a lot of the rest of the

create grow and contribute to communities on reddit

to

grow

number of

communities on the

Reddit

and

increase the

number of

this quarter we've continued to grow the number of communities on reddit

contribution

from

our

users.

We

added

another

billion

posts and

comments to

and increase the contribution from our users we added another billion posts and comments

our

to our corpus

corpus.

Looking

forward,

our work is a good thing to

will be a good

to make sure that we

subreddits

more

distinct

to

deepen

looking forward our work will be to make subreddits more distinct

the

sense of

belonging

by

making

joining

subreddits

more

intentional

and

to deepen the sense of belonging by making joining subreddits

significant.

and to

make

moderation much

easier

and

more

consistent with the

more intentional and significant and to make moderation much

by

giving

moderators

AI

power

easier and more consistent by giving moderators ai powered tools

tools.

This approach is a very important thing to

has

helped us to be able to do

our

own

enforcement

team reduce the

median

time

to

this approach has helped our own enforcement

action

on

violating

content

from 50% of the

hours to

enforcement team reduce the median time to action on violating content

58

5

from fifty eight hours to five seconds

seconds this

this year

year.

We have to do that.

Our

current option is a very important thing to

opportunity

is

to

better return to the

retain

the

large

cohort

of

users

who

our current opportunity is to better retain

try to use the

Reddit for the first

time

every

day

by executing the rest of the

the large cohort of users who try reddit for the first time every day

on

by executing on the above

the above.

I think that's a good idea.

We see a lot of the ability to do a lot of the

number

the ability to do the

of

unattributed

aka

word

of

mouth

we see a large number of unattributed aka word-of-mouth installs

installs

every

day.

We also have a lot

number of

large

of

reinstalls

which

we

can

mitigate

every day we also have a large number of reinstalls

through

things

like

an

improved

improved

incognito

mode

in

the

which we can mitigate through things like an improved incognito mode in the app

app.

And of

course, we've got a lot of

continue to do

use the

control

convert

our

still

significant number

of

search

refers to the

and of course we will continue to convert our still significant number

users

from

mobile

web

to

app.

Currently, we have a lot of

only about the web

30% of

the

people are using application

web applications used to

of the are

web

applications

search referred users from mobile web to app currently only about thirteen

eligible

mobile

web

users

are

seeing

the

app

conversion

prompt.

So, we have a lot of different things that we have.

percent of eligible mobile web users are seeing the app conversion prompt

So this has room to

so this has room to scale

scale.

While

early, so far we have

seen that we have a lot

app users are

that come to

Reddit

through

while early so far we have seen that app users that

marketing

retain

at

rates similar to the rest of the

app

users that come to the

come to reddit through marketing retain at rates similar to app users that come organically so

organically.

So we will continue to use the same

invest in

here.

Together,

these

efforts are not going to be able to do

will help us

reach

more than a few

we will continue to invest here together

people

and

convert more

first-time

users

into regular

Reddit

these efforts will help us reach more people and convert more first time users

into regular reddit users

users.

And a

key piece of the microphone is a

work very important thing to

retain

new

audiences

is

shifting

Reddit

to

a

logged

and a key piece of work to retain new audiences

in

only

experience.

It's a big

one for

is shifting reddit to a logged in only experience

us.

and it's a big one for

me.

I want to take a minute to get a little bit more of a

make sure that I'm going to be

outline

why

we're making a lot of

it's a big one for us and it's a big one for me i wanna take a minute to outline

this

why we're making this change

change.

Moving to

primarily logged

in

will ensure that we

we're going to be able to do

our users can be able to use

have

the

best

Reddit

moving to primarily logged in will ensure our users have the best

experience

possible.

and can

find

the

content

and

communities

most

relevant to

reddit experience possible and can find the content and communities most relevant to them

to

them.

It's better for a

our business

because we have a lot of

more

signals

for

ads

targeting

and

being

logged

it's better for our business because we have more signals for ads targeting

in leads to the

high-level

higher

engagement

and being logged in leads to higher engagement generally

generally.

It also

allows us

to perceive the

in

access to the

power of power of

the

extremely

valuable

corpus

of

it also allows us to protect access to reddit's

data

and

helps

us

better adapt to the

emerging

regulations over

extremely valuable corpus of data and helps us better

around the

adapt to emerging regulations around the world

world.

In

Q4, we'll be able to do

begin

with the first

fully testing

the

this

in selecting

the

markets out

outside of the

in q4 we'll begin fully testing this in select markets outside the u s

U.S.

The results of

those

tests will be used to be used to be used to be

inform the

an option to be able to do

version of the

logged

in

Reddit

the results of those tests will inform an optimized version of logged in only reddit

globally

globally.

Pretty much all

the

major

ad

platforms

have

gone

through

this

transition.

So we are

excited and

pretty much all the major ad platforms have gone through this transition

are

moving

so we are excited and are moving quickly

quickly.

With the above

work, we will make a lot of

ready to be able to

a

fun, fulfilling

direct

daily

habit

for

with the above work we will make reddit a fun

every

Internet

fulfilling direct daily habit for every internet user

user. Thank

you and

now over

to

thank you and now over to jen

Jen.

Missy Steve. Hello,

this is steve hello everyone

Q3 was a very good

strong

quarter

for

Reddit.

revenue

grew

53%

percent

year over

q3 was a strong quarter for reddit revenue grew fifty three

year.

and

trailing

12

month

revenue

across the

30% of

$3

billion.

percent year over year and trailing twelve month revenue crossed three billion dollars

This milestone reflects the best of the

our ability

to do

grow

and

at

scale.

That growth is

happening at the end of the

this milestone reflects our ability to grow at scale

internet

changes

quickly.

AI is

reshaping how it's going to

people

think about the

that growth is happening as the internet changes quickly

find

information

and

get

things

ai is reshaping how people find information and get things done

done.

At the same

time, lived

experience can be

to able to do

a good

increase

in

at the same time lived experience continues to increase in value

value as

a

an

essential

source of the value of the value

for

advice

and as

a

knowledge

source

for

AI.

as an essential source for advice and as a knowledge source for ai assistance

assistance.

people turn to

other

people

when

they

need to be able to do

second

opinion

from

someone

who

actually

bought

insurance for

the first

people turn to other people when they need a second opinion from someone who actually bought insurance for

time.

or who has

was

navigating millions of

mid-forties

the first time or who is navigating mid forties fitness

fitness.

And to

savor the sense of the

belonging

from people who are not afraid of

able to do

coming

together

to

share

and to savor the sense of belonging from people coming together

fun,

hard work,

and

to share fun hardships and wins

wins.

As synthetic content

and

automated

summaries become a very important

more

common,

Reddit's content is a very important thing to

conversation

is

a

as synthetic content and automated summaries become more common

and

communities are not

an increase in the United

increasingly

valuable

destination

for

reddit's conversations and communities are an increasingly valuable destination for people

people and

a

high

high-intent

audience

for

and a high intent audience for advertisers

advertisers.

These are really expensive.

experiences.

These real

experiences

and perspectives are a lot of the same

perspectives

help

people

make

big

these real experiences and perspectives

and

small

decisions every

every

help people make big and small decisions every day

day.

And that's

why half of the market is a lot

you

U.S. shops

shoppers say that they're not going to be able to do

they can't

come

Reddit

to

verify

AI.

and that's why half of us shoppers say they come to reddit to verify ai recommendations

recommendations.

significance of the US.

We see

significant

opportunities for the

ahead of

for

our

business.

and we're making

we see significant opportunity ahead for our business

progress.

reflected in

strong

customer

and we're making progress reflected in strong customer retention

retention,

growing

share

of

wallet,

and

more

always

on

advertiser

growing share of wallet and more always on advertiser relationships

relationships.

These trends give

us

confidence in the

and

ready to be able to do

ability

deliver the rest of the

due to ability to do

the

differentiated

these trends give us confidence in reddit's ability to deliver durable differentiated growth

growth.

Now moving to our

results.

In Q3, advertising results are a very good

revenue grew 50% of the

54%

year over

now moving to our results in q3 advertising revenue grew

year

to

$847

seven million

fifty four percent year over year to eight forty seven million dollars

Growth came from the

both million

price and

improving the price of the

impressions,

with

pricing

outpacing

impressions as well

we

growth came from both pricing and impressions with pricing outpacing impressions

delivered

on

our

strategy to make sure that we're going

every

impression

more

we delivered on our strategy to make every impression more valuable

valuable.

We saw

that translation.

into the

reference

results.

In Q3, click

volume

grew up to the point of

we saw that translate into results in q3 click volume

50%

of the

and

converted to the

volume more than

tripled year after

over

grew over fifty percent and conversion volume more than tripled

year over year

year.

We also saw

strength across

our

primary

sales

channels, including the sales of the

large

customers

and

we also saw strength across our primary sales channels including large customers and scale

scaled.

Scaled

revenue

grew more than 100% of the

$1.5

80%

of the

each

year over

in

Q

driven

by

scaled revenue grew more than eighty percent year over year in q3

deeper

relationships with the

existing

advertisers, high-definition of

average

spend,

and

new

driven by deeper relationships with existing advertisers

advertiser

higher average spend and new advertiser acquisition

acquisition.

Mid-market

active

advertisers grew

more than

50% of the

each

year

over

year,

with

growth

across

both North

mid market active advertisers grew more than fifty percent year over year

America and the United

with growth across both north america and emea

EMEA.

In the mid-market channel, the market is a very important part

the

our suite of the USA is a very important

of

shopping products are a very good

is controlled by the production of the

to

reaching the

advertiser

the mid market channel our suite of shopping products is contributing to retail advertiser demand

demand

while

our

B2B

offering

is

driving

demand for the

from

mid-market

service

while our b2b offering is driving demand from mid market service advertisers

advertisers.

Revenue growth

was

broad based

across the

verticals

and

revenue growth was broad based across verticals and regions

regions.

Business and

finance, pharma

and travel,

the business are the

industries

were shown to be a very important part of the

were

strong.

and U.S. ad

revenue

grew from the

fifty

of

business and finance pharma and travel industries were strong

percent year

over

year

while

international ad

revenue green green green

grew 10% of the

and u s ad revenue grew fifty one percent year over year

68

percent year over

while international ad revenue grew sixty eight percent year over year

year.

Demand

span, the banana, the

full funnel, and the

let's

by

led

lower

funnel

performance

revenue

demand spanned the full funnel led by lower funnel performance revenue

particularly

shopping

and

app

install

objectives,

which

both

grew over the

nine

of the

particularly shopping and app install objectives which both grew over ninety five percent

year

over

year over year

year.

Now, I'll just go ahead and get a little bit of a little bit of a green.

Now I'll discuss our

progress

against the

ad

now i'll discuss our progress against the ad stack

stack.

Our investment in the

ad

stack

are

helping us to be able to do

helping

businesses

achieve

stronger

performance

and

consistent

our investments in the ad stack are helping businesses achieve

returns.

We're executing against the

three

stronger performance and consistent returns we're executing against three areas

areas.

scaling on a majority of the

through

our

ads

platform

and Reddit

Max

campaigns,

delivering ads

advertising, and the

scaling automation through our ads platform and reddit max campaigns

value

across

the

full

funnel,

and expanding the

range of

for

business

delivering advertiser value across the full funnel and expanding the reddit for business ecosystem

ecosystem.

So starting with

automation.

Reddit Max

and

entered

public

data

in

2.3.

and we expected to be able to do

so starting with automation reddit max entered public beta in q3

the

access

to the

in

and

integrated Max.

MACs

into

the

onboarding

experience for

new

and we expanded access and integrated max into the onboarding experience for new advertisers

advertisers.

Max advertiser

adoption more than a

tripled

quarter over

quarter.

max advertiser adoption more than tripled quarter over quarter

We also

launched

asset

groups,

which let asset

advertising and we have a lot of

manage more than

multiple

product

lines

we also launched asset groups which let advertisers manage

or

creative

themes

within

a

single

max

multiple product lines or creative themes within a single max campaign

campaign.

Improvements to

the

machine

learning

models

beneath

MAX

and

our

ad

stack

are helping

us

improvements to the machine learning models beneath max and our ad

learn

faster

and improve the

are helping us learn faster and improve performance

performance.

In

Q3, we improve the

improved

model to the

training, added more to the

real-time

sequencing

and

session

in q3 we improved model training added more real time sequencing and session

signals.

and

updated

graph-based

signals across the side of the

our

ranking

models.

These improvements can be used to make a lot of

be be be

signals and updated graph based signals across our ranking models

to the

same

performance

gains across

the

funnel

from

stronger

view

these improvements contributed to performance gains across the funnel

view-through

rates in the middle of the

upper

funnel

to lower

cost

per

action in the upper

lower

from stronger view through rates in the upper funnel to lower cost

per action in the lower funnel

funnel.

Our roadmap of

models are a very good

the

improvements same

the

consistent

performance

gains

for

our roadmap of model improvements delivers consistent performance gains for advertisers

advertisers

into

ad

spend

efficiency

and

higher

into ad spend efficiency and higher returns

returns.

Now moving to the next

our

progress

across

marketing, we're going to be able to

objectives, we have do

for

advertisers on

our

now moving to our progress across marketing objectives for advertisers on our

platform.

Reddit users

bring

high

intent

to

every

interaction with the

whether

engaging in the

reddit users bring high intent to every interaction

with

text in the

and

or

videos.

video.

In the upper fold, the image is a very important

funnel, video a very funny

views are

would be

a

our first

whether engaging with text images or video in the upper funnel video views was our

fastest

growing objective with red

revenue more

than doubling year over

fastest growing objective with revenue more than doubling year over year

We

brought in our video offerings with the video.

a

new

15-second

engage

video.

game.

view

we brought in our video offerings with a new fifteen second

objective which

ends

entered public video

in

Q3.

engaged video view objective which entered public beta in q3

And this objective is a very good

has simple

you

add to the

advertisers

opt to be able to do

the

for

people more than

likely to be able to do

more

likely

engage

with

longer

form

and this objective helps advertisers optimize for people more likely to engage with longer

video.

form video

Now in the last

lower

frame, I'm going to show you how

funnel.

shopping

was

our first

fastest

growing

objective and

we explained that

the

now in the lower funnel shopping was our fastest growing objective and we expanded the

product

to

support

up

to

20

million

products.

making

it easier to

for the

local

and

more

complex

product to support up to twenty million products making it easier

advertisers

to

run

shopping

for larger and more complex advertisers to run shopping campaigns

campaigns.

People come to Red

Reddit

ask

to

questions, learn

from

real

experiences,

and

make

personal

decisions based on the idea of the idea of the

on

people come to reddit to ask questions learn from real experiences and make

communities they

trust.

The same is true

for

people

making

decisions for their own

personal decisions based on the communities they trust the same is true for people making

business.

More than 20

million

business

decision

makers come to the

Reddit

decisions for their business more than twenty million business

globally.

and nine in

ten,

use

Reddit in the United

past

decision makers come to reddit globally and nine in ten

year

to

research

business

products

or

used reddit in the past year to research business products or services

services.

We

enhanced

our

lead

generation

capabilities to help

businesses

turn

we enhanced our lead generation capabilities to help businesses

high

intent

engagement

into

measurable

leads.

Our in-market audience is a very important thing to

turn high intent engagement into measurable leads

audience

is

targeting

tools

help beat

B2B

advertisers reach out to the

our in market audiences targeting tools help b2b advertisers reach

people

actively reaching out to

or connecting to

the

a

purchase.

including

in

the

enterprise

people actively researching or considering a purchase

and

business

AI.

and

cybersecurity

including in the enterprise and business ai and cybersecurity industries

industries.

B2B

advertisers using these

audiences so that we can use the same

an

average

cost

per

action

improvement

of

b2b advertisers using these audiences saw an average cost per action improvement

about

70% of the millions of

percent compared to the

other

first

first-party

targeting on

of about seven percent compared to other first party targeting options

options.

We're also

adding

audience

and

measurement

partners

and

testing

CRM

we're also adding audience and measurement partners and testing crm integrations

integrations.

helping

advertisers

connect

Reddit

campaigns

to

their

sales

workflows

and

assess

performance

across

the

helping advertisers connect reddit campaigns to their sales workflows and assess

performance across the funnel

funnel.

Next, I'll discuss the

how to do

we're going

be able

expanding

the

Reddit for the

Business

ecosystem.

next i'll discuss how we're expanding the reddit for business ecosystem

We continue to

expand

our

ecosystem

by adding a

part of the

that

extending our

products

through

existing

we continue to expand our ecosystem by adding partners and extending our products

integrations.

In

Q3,

revenue from

our

ads

API is a very good

equals

through existing integrations in q3 revenue from our ads api ecosystem

ecosystem

grew

more

than

40% of the

of the

quarter over

quarter.

We

added

Innovid

and

Sky to our

ecosystem grew more than forty five percent quarter over quarter

advertising

and

customer

management

partnerships and

began

a

we added innovate and sky to our advertising and customer management partnerships

beta

integration

with

HubSpot.

We also launched a new publication of the

Smartly's.

Max

API

and began a beta integration with hubspot we also launched smartly's max

integration, the

first 13

of the

integration

for

Max

Campaign

management.

api integration the first third party integration for max campaign management

Our Shopify integration is a very important thing to do with the

is a very

important thing to

also

continues to be a major

available the

very important

to

scale

following

its

general

availability

launch

in

our shopify integration also continued to scale following

May.

Using

Reddit's DPS, the USB is a very good

process,

product and

Shopify, the product is a product of

its general availability launch in may using reddit

integration, back to the

and

accessories

company, and the production of the

dpa product and shopify integration backpack and accessories

Ethnotech

connected

its

catalog

to serve as a

service the

most

relevant

products to high-level

company ethnotech connected its catalog to

high

intense

service the most relevant products to high intent shoppers

shoppers.

They campaigned over the fourth

a four

4x

return on the

advertising

spend and a

40

more

they campaigned over the 4x return on advertising spend

efficient

CPA,

helping

ethnotech

scale

while

keeping

the

ads

and a forty percent more efficient cpa helping ethnotech scale

relevant to each

while keeping the ads relevant to each user

user.

On measurement, the user is a very good

third party, and the

research is a very important thing to

value, and the research

our

impact according to the

verticals

and

on measurement third party research validates our impact across verticals and categories

categories.

Research from

a

team of the United

that technology is a very

the team important

that current

audio is a very important thing to

audiences

generated

higher levels of the

lifetime

value across the

research from a team found that reddit audiences generate higher lifetime value across

CPG.

Quick serve

restaurants,

USR,

and

retail

categories.

cpg quick serve restaurant qsr and retail categories

Reddit shoppers

delivered

70% of the

percent

higher than the city of the

LTV

and

personal

care and

reddit shoppers delivered seventeen percent higher ltv in personal care and beauty

beauty.

19% of the lower levels of the

higher

value in

QSR

beverage and

snacks.

and

11% higher

value

nineteen percent higher value in qsr beverage and snacks

in

retail

beauty

and

personal

care.

Assamba

and eleven percent higher value in retail beauty and personal care

meta-analysis of the city of the United

colour

20% the city of the United

of the city of the

tune-in

campaigns

found

Reddit

ads

drove

an average

a samba meta analysis of twenty five tune in campaigns

80% of the

18% of the

percent

incremental

lift

in

two

tune

in across the

on reddit ads drove an average eighteen percent incremental lift in tunein

linear

and

across linear and streaming

streaming

with

exposed

households watching the

15% of the

more

minutes

than

the

competitive

with exposed households watching fifteen percent more minutes than the competitive benchmark

benchmark.

Demonstrating

that

Reddit drew a lot of the

drove

both

more

tune

and

deeper

demonstrating that reddit drove both more tune in and deeper viewing

viewing.

Lastly, I'll

share

an

update on the

our

consumer

marketing

lastly i'll share an update on our consumer marketing efforts

efforts.

Our marketing

strategy

is

to broaden the

awareness of

the

Reddit

and increase

our

top

of

funnel

for

logged

in

our marketing strategy is to broaden awareness of reddit and increase our

and

app

users.

To

build awareness, we're going to be able to do a lot

going use the

to

be able do

use the

our

brand new

top of funnel for logged in and app users to build awareness we're

strategy.

our brand

campaign,

people are

the Best

is a very important thing to

continuing to evaluate our brand strategy our brand campaign people are the best

showing early on the

promise.

with

gains in

and

reddits

relevance

and

strong

ad

is showing early promise with gains in reddit's relevance and strong ad recall

recall.

We also brought Reddit's

community to the United

life

through our

r

slash

Bodega,

our

first

ever

we also brought reddit communities to life through rbodega

community

pop-up

in New

York

our first ever community pop up in new york city

City.

The Bodega

represented 75% of the country's

Reddit

communities

and reached the United

hundreds of

thousands of

people in

the bodega represented seventy five reddit communities and reached hundreds of thousands of people

person

and

online.

driving

engagement

both at the end of the

event

and across the

Reddit

in person and online driving engagement both at the event and across reddit communities

communities.

For our payment, we have a lot of people who are

marketing, we have

strength, to be able to do

we have a lot of

are starting to do

share the

shift

focus

from

for our paid marketing strategy we are starting to shift focus

reach

web

campaigns

to

app

campaigns.

This

aligns

with

our

from reach web campaigns to app campaigns

strategy of putting our campaigns to the

potentially

trading

some

reach

for

a

higher

this aligns with our strategy of potentially trading some reach

value in

engaged

for higher value engaged users

users.

It's

early, but in

our experience, we're using the

a lot of

we have people who are not

so that can use the same

far, we're going to be able to do

we're

far,

our users are using the

U.S. applications are

is a very important

install

campaigns

can

it's early but in our experience so far our u s app install campaigns

retain

new

users at

rates compared to the

organic

app

can retain new users at rates comparable to organic app users

users.

Outside the

U.S.,

Reach-based user markets, and the

marketing is

more of

a

lever

given

the

outside the u s reach based user marketing

lower

awareness

of

Reddit

is more of a lever given the lower awareness of reddit's brand

brand.

In the quarter,

we increased the

brand new

user

marketing

spend in the middle of the

internationally in

part

to come

compensate for the

loss of

the

in the quarter we increased user marketing spend internationally

reached from the

declines of the

social

search

referral traffic.

in part to compensate for the loss reached from the declines of search referral traffic

I think that's a good idea.

This enables the same

us to be able to do

continue

increase the search for the search for the

new

users to the

platform.

We will evaluate

the effects of the

this enabled us to continue to introduce new users to the platform

that

spend over the

next few

quarters.

And we're also exploring ways

to

we will evaluate the effectiveness of that spend over the next few quarters

re-engage with the

logged

in

and apply to the

users

to sustain the

core

we're also exploring ways to reengage logged in and app users

usage

and

offset the

pressure

from

search

referrals

traffic.

to sustain core usage and offset pressure from search referral traffic

Overall this was

a

another

strong

quarter

for

Reddit.

Our results

reflect

strong

execution by

overall this was another strong quarter for reddit

our

teams and the

value of

the

Reddit

delivers

to

users

and

our results reflect strong execution by our teams and the value reddit delivers

to users and customers

customers.

We're well positioned to use the

be able

on

this

progress in the

fourth

quarter

and

into

we're well positioned to build on this progress in the fourth quarter

and into twenty twenty seven

2027. Thank

you

for joining

us and for

your

continued

support.

Now I'll turn the call to the next

over

Drew.

Thank

you,

thank you for joining us and for your continued support now i'll turn the call over to drew

Jen, and good

afternoon,

everyone.

Q3 demonstrated

again this

of the state of the

thank you jim and good afternoon everyone q3 demonstrated again the strength of reddit

Reddit's

one of the most

financial

one of one financial model

model.

Simply

put,

we should be able to do

showcased

cash

generation,

earnings

power,

simply put we showcased cash generation earnings power

invest in

class

margins

to

and best in class margins to scale

scale.

On cash

generation,

our first

cash is a general

generation very important

flow

margins are

margin reaches the

$4

41 percent in

cash

on cash generation our free cash flow margin reached forty one percent

Q3

while free cash flow markets are

was a very good

360

million.

up $9

in q3 while free cash flow was three sixty three million

$90

year over

up ninety eight percent year over year

year.

Reddit's

cash and

investments top

three

$3

billion for

the first

reddit's cash and investments topped three billion dollars for the first time

first

time.

On earnings

power,

Q3 gapped

the

diluted

EPS and

the

adjusted

on earnings power q3 gaap diluted eps

EBITDA

both

grew

over

70%

year over

year.

and adjusted ebitda both grew over seventy percent year over year

Year to

date, adjusted

EBITDA

surpassed the

$1.5

$1

billion.

nearly $1

double a

year

year to date adjusted ebitda surpassed one billion dollars

ago.

and for

best and close to the

class, I'm not sure if I can

margins,

Reddit

shined against the

nearly double a year ago and for best in class

again.

Net income

margin

was

32

two

percent.

class margins reddit shined again net income margin was thirty two percent

adjusted

EBITDA

margin was

45

percent.

gross

margin was

were

ninety-one point five

adjusted ebitda margin was forty five percent gross margins were ninety one point five percent

I'll now provide a number of

an

more

color on the

our QR

now provide more color on our q3 results

Q3

results.

Q3 revenue

was

$895

million up to

$50

q3 revenue was eight ninety five million dollars up

percent you

year over

year.

Advertising

revenue

was 80% of the

hundred and forty

million

fifty three percent year over year advertising revenue was eight forty seven million dollars

up $5

$54

year

over

year.

and other

revenue

was 40

$48

million up to

$35

per

percent year over

up fifty four percent year over year and other revenue was forty eight million dollars up thirty five percent

year over year

year.

U.S. revenues

grew

50% of the

percent

of the

in

and

international

revenues

grew

67%.

u s revenues grew fifty percent and international revenues grew sixty seven percent

percent.

Average revenue green green green

percentage of the 20% of the

per

unit is a very important period

user grew

36%.

year over

year to

average revenue per unique user grew thirty six percent year over year

$6.87.

to six point eight seven dollars

Moving to the extent to expanding extraction.

Moving to

expenses, we can't do

to

in

invest the

business that

it

healthy

rate.

Total

adjusted costs are a good

moving to expenses we continue to invest in the business at a healthy rate

cost and

expenses

were 40% of the

million, up

$49

total adjusted cost and expenses were four ninety three million

41%.

percent year over

very

consistent with

our

expense

growth

rate over the

last

four

up forty one percent year over year very consistent with our expense growth rate over the last

quarters.

We continue to be

thoughtful

about

the balance of the

between the

growth and

four quarters we continue to be thoughtful about the balance

investment

as

revenue

grew a lot of the

one percent of the

base, base is

times 10% of the

rate

between growth and investment as revenue grew approximately one point three times the rate

total

adjusted

cost.

And our

incremental

even though we have to do

is a very good

market

are

adjusted

EBITDA

margin

was 50% of the

total adjusted cost and our incremental ebitda margin adjusted ebitda margin was

fifty four

four percent

Gross margins were

was

not

91.5% of the

up to

50% based on the

basis

points

from last

gross margin was ninety one point five percent up fifty basis points from last year

year.

Cost of

revenue

was a very good

approximately 60% of the

76% of the

million, up $40

44

percent year per

over

cost of revenue was approximately seventy six million dollars up forty four percent year over year

year.

reflecting

investments in

machine

learning, science, and

performance, the

methods,

the site, and the

reflecting investments in machine learning site performance

measurement and safety

safety.

The benefit from

incremental risk is a very

revenue and

ongoing

interest is

of 50% of the 50% of the

efficiency

projects

the benefit from incremental revenue and ongoing infrastructure efficiency projects

helped

us

do

more

than

offset

these

these cost

increases and

maintain

gross

margins

helped us to more than offset these cost increases

above 90% of

ninety

percent

for

the next

90

consecutive

and maintain gross margins above ninety percent for the ninth consecutive quarter

quarter.

Adjusted

operating

expenses

were

$417

million or $4

$46

of

revenue compared to the

adjusted operating expenses were four seventeen million dollars or forty seven

$50

51% of the

last

percent of revenue compared to fifty one percent last year

year.

As we continue

to

gain

operating

as we continue to gain operating leverage

leverage.

Within

operating

expenses,

the

two

largest investments are the most

same as

in US is a very

areas

are

headed by the

and

consumer

within operating expenses the two largest investment areas are headcount and consumer marketing

marketing.

We continue to evaluate the

these

spans

with an

ROI

we continue to evaluate these spends with an roi mindset

mindset.

On

on hiring

hiring

the

focus

remains making a lot of

the

product

better.

accelerating

monetization,

and strengthening

the focus remains making the product better accelerating monetization

the

quality of

the

our

user

and strengthening the quality of our user base

base.

Total

headcount

grew

approximately

3% since the

sequentially

and

12%

year

over

total headcount grew approximately three percent sequentially

and twelve percent year over year

year.

We continue to be able to do

see greater

than the

cost

leverage in

and

efficiency.

efficiency

gains in the

back

of house

we continue to see great cost leverage and efficiency

areas

like

G and

We

ended

Q3 with the

a very good

same

efficiency gains in the back of house areas like g and a

head count as the

we had

ended

in

GNA two years

ago.

we ended q3 with the same headcount as we had in g and a two years ago

back

in

2024, we had a lot of

in

the

third

back in twenty twenty four in the third quarter

quarter.

In Q3,

our total number of 2023 is a very

consumption important

market is a very thing to

spending

was

considered a

consistent with

the

prior

in q3 our total consumer marketing spend was consistent with the prior quarter

quarter.

Total spend

was

mid-single

digits on the

a private

percentage of

revenue based on the

basis.

consistent

total spend was mid single digits on a percentage of revenue basis

with

But

the spending is a very good

next

shift is the

by Q

category and

region.

consistent with q2 but the spend mix shifted by category and region

In the U.S., as a

the US, the US,

is very important

noted, we have a lot of the

should be able to do

shifted

the

a portion of

dollars to the

away from

web

user

marketing

in the u s as jen noted we shifted a portion of dollars away from web user marketing into

into

app

installs and

our

brand

campaign.

To

date, domestic, and we have to do a lot of

markets are

work is very good

user

app installs and our brand campaign to date

marketing space is a very important

has proved to be lot of the

a

proven

effective

at

bringing

users

to reduce

domestic web user marketing spend has proven effective

but

low return to the

rates are not

have

hurt

at bringing users to reddit but low retention rates have hurt roi

ROI.

Internationally, we

spent more than 10

dollars

on

user

web

marketing

to

grow

reach,

internationally we spent more dollars on user web marketing to grow reach

driving user

users

to the

platform where

they're

the

brand

is

less

well

known.

which

all of

offer the same

offset

driving users to the platform where the brand is less well known

decline

in

international

search

referral

traffic.

which helped offset the declines in international search referral traffic

We'll continue to monitor

both the dimensions of the

and

international

marketing

we'll continue to monitor both the domestic and international marketing performances

performances.

And

will

we adjust

our

spend

according to the

and we'll adjust our spend accordingly

accordingly.

Turning now to

stock-based

compensation

and

turning now to stock based compensation and dilution

dilution.

in

Q3,

in q3

stock-based compensation is a good

a very good

is

and relationships are lot of the

to

taxes

were

$136

million

or $5

$50

15%

of

stock based compensation and related taxes were one hundred and thirty six million dollars or fifteen percent of revenue

revenue.

down 80% of the

bips year over the

year.

Total fully divided by the

shares

down eighty bps year over year total fully diluted shares outstanding

outstanding were

down

sequentially,

landing

at

$206.3

million.

Year to

gross

dilution is a very important

down sequentially landing at two hundred and six point three million

excludes the

impact of the

buybacks,

is one of the most important

year to date gross dilution excluding the impact of buybacks

1.2%.

So, we have to do that.

we're tracking what we're

so

far

against

our

long-term

guide

is one point two percent so we're tracking well so far

of

one to

3%

annual

against our long term guide of one percent to three percent annual dilution

dilution.

After buybacks year

to

date

fully

diluted

share

count is up to the

point one

after buybacks year to date fully diluted share count is up zero point one percent

I think that's the only thing that's going to be a very important

In

Q3, we

are

purchase the

about

a hundred

$100

million worth

of

stock at

an

average

price

slightly

below $100

in q3 we repurchased about one hundred million dollars worth of stock at an average

$150 a

price slightly below one hundred and fifty dollars a share

share.

We have about

$600 to

million for a

remaining on

our

current

buyback

we have about six sixty million dollars remaining on our current buyback authorization

authorization.

A few more

points of

interest on the

Q3

net

a few more points of interest on q3

income

was

$283

million

or a

$1.5

per

basic

share and

$1.4

net income was two eighty three million dollars or one point four seven dollars per basic share and one point

per

diluted

share compared

to

$160 per

million

or

$80

four zero dollars per diluted share compared to one hundred and sixty three million

$87

per

for

basic

share

and $8

$87

cents per

basic

diluted

share a

year

or zero eight seven dollars per basic share and zero eight zero dollars per diluted share a year ago

ago.

Capital

expenditures

were

1.2

million to the

business

remained

capital

capital expenditures were one point two million dollars so the business remained capital light

light.

We ended

Q3 with the

3.03

billion in the

cash, cash

equivalents in

and

we ended q3 with three point zero three billion dollars in cash

marketing

marketable

securities,

which

gives flexibility to the

exit the

a lot

on

our

cash equivalents and marketable securities which gives flexibility to

three

capital

priorities

where it

makes

sense.

Investing in the

business,

M

A,

execute on our three capital priorities where it makes sense investing in the business

and

share

m and a and share repurchase

repurchase.

I'd like to share with

a

quick

point on the

taxes.

Our Q3 taxes are

expense

was

a

approximately

i'd like to share a quick point on taxes our q3 tax

$5.8

million with

an

effective

tax

rate

of

about $2

two

expense was approximately five point eight million dollars with an effective tax rate of about two percent

percent.

So book tax

expense

remains

so book tax expense remains modest

modest.

We also continue

to

maintain

our

full

valuation

allowances

on

U.S. Federal

and

we also continue to maintain our full valuation allowances

state

deferred

tax

on u s federal and state deferred tax assets

assets.

Reddit has now

become

gap

profitable

since

two thousand

in the third

reddit has now become gaap profitable since twenty twenty four in the third

quarter.

We're up to the next

our

internal

forecast as part of the

an

ongoing

assessment

to evaluate

quarter we're updating our internal forecast as part of

whether

those

full

values

allows

allowances remain

appropriate over the

an ongoing assessment to evaluate whether those full valuation allowances remain appropriate

near

over the near term

term.

Turning now to

the

outlook.

we'll

share

our

internal

expectations

for

revenue and adjust the rest of the

turning now to the outlook we'll share our internal expectations for revenue

EBITDA for

the full

fourth

quarter of

2026.

as well

a

few

additional

and adjusted ebitda for the fourth quarter of twenty twenty six

as well as a few additional considerations

considerations.

In the fourth

of

quarter 2026,

we

asked the

that we had a very important

revenue in

the

range of the

$1

one

in the fourth quarter of twenty twenty six we estimate revenue in the range of one billion

billion to $1

$1.5

billion.

representing $30

38

billion to $40

percent of the

billion

year over

dollars to one point zero three billion dollars representing thirty eight

year-over-year

growth with

a mid-year

of

a

approximately

forty

percent to forty two percent year over year growth with a midpoint of approximately forty percent

Adjusted

EBITDA in

the range of

480

million

to $5

five hundred

adjusted ebitda in the range of four eighty million dollars to five

and ten

million

representing four

$46

to

200

50

56

percent of the million

year-over-year

year

ten million dollars representing forty seven to fifty six percent year over year growth

growth.

And it adjusts to the

EVERY

margin

of approximately

49

percent at the middle of

and an adjusted ebitda margin of approximately forty nine percent at the midpoint

midpoint.

Additionally, at

like

to provide a lot of the

an

update

on

our

user

additionally i'd like to provide an update on our user disclosures

disclosures.

As the broad as the broadcast is

broader internet

landscape is a very important

continues to be

able

evolve,

Reddit can be

continues to

as the broader internet landscape continues to evolve

iterate in

and

reddit continues to iterate and learn

learn

on

many

product

changes.

including

an

upcoming

test to

move

the

platform

to lock

on many product changes including in

in

only

users.

Which Steve

described

briefly in

upcoming test to move the platform to logged in only users which

his remote

steve described briefly in his remarks

remarks.

It follows that we have to do

we'll continue

report that we're going to be able to

report

logged

in

and logged

out

DAUQ

it follows that we'll continue to report logged in and

by

geography.

as

they

remain

useful for the

understanding

use of

user

logged out dauq by geography as they remain useful for understanding user trends

trends can be

with the

our

historical

consistent with our historical reporting

reporting.

As we move forward with the history of the history of

be able to do

will continue evaluate the current

our use of the

user

reporting

to ensure that we are using the

it

reflects

how

as we move forward we'll continue to evaluate our user reporting

we manage

and

measure

our

to ensure it reflects how we manage and measure our business

business.

To close

my comments, I'm going to go ahead

be able do

I'm going make a lot of

I'd like to have time to do

make sure that we're going be

to highlight the

that it

was

great

to

see

Reddit

added to

the

S

P

to close my commentary i'd like to highlight that it was great to see reddit added to the s

500

earlier

in the

quarter.

It's a terrific

testimony to the

progress in

and

the

potential of the

and p five hundred earlier in the quarter it's a terrific testimony of the progress in

potential of the brand

brand.

It was also great to

see the

Reddit

cross an

important

mile

of

three

$3

billion

in the

a

it was also great to see reddit cross an important milepost of three billion dollars in the

trailing

$12

12-month

revenue

basis.

We have made a lot

of

progress

since

we've

crossed

a billion

dollars

trailing twelve month revenue basis we've made a lot of progress

back in the

twenty twenty

since we crossed one billion dollars back in twenty twenty four

Our next

internal

North

Star is a very good

five

$5

billion in the

revenue,

which

will

require

a

strong

our next internal north star is five billion dollars in revenue

execution

to

capitalize

on

the

unique

raw

materials

which will require strong execution to capitalize on the unique raw materials

Reddit

reddit has

has.

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my

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Great. Thank

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Steve.

on

the

shift

to

the

logo, the logo is a little

in

only

experience, can

you do

dig

in a little

on the shift to the logged in only

bit

more

into

the

sort

of

the

genesis

of

that

experience can you dig in a little bit more into the the sort of the genesis

decision.

Um also you know what are

you looking

for in

the

test

of this

of that decision also what are you looking for in

quarter and and how

do

you

think

this

could

alter

ultimately

impact

your

top

of

the test this quarter and how do you think this could ultimately impact

funnel?

and

your ability

to

attract

more

users

to

new

your top of funnel and your ability to track

communities.

And

Chen, revenue continues

to

more users to new communities and jen revenue continues to clearly

clearly you

know

materially

outgrow

users as you

look

ahead

to

twenty

materially outgrow users as you look ahead to twenty seven

how

much role is

do you

think there

is

left

in terms

of

closing the

them

onto

gap

how much runway do you think there is left in terms of closing the monetization gap

versus some of

the

other

social

platforms

before

revenue

growth

starts

to

track

user

versus some of the other social platforms before revenue growth

growth on

a little

bit

more

closely. Thank

you very

starts to track user growth a little bit more closely thank you very much

very

much.

Thanks for the

question,

questions,

Ben.

thanks for the question ben so

So

the transition is a very important

to the next

logic is a very important

transition to logged in

in.

you know,

the

genesis

is

like

every

other

platform

has

done

this.

Now Reddit's

know the genesis is like every other platform has done this

different.

now reddit's different we've

We've

been

uh

accessible

logged

out

for a lot of

long

long

been accessible logged out for a long time

time.

Um but

now

is

the right

time to do

for the

a variety

of

reasons.

One,

but now is the right time for a variety of reasons one

when

when reddit

Reddit

was

born, it was a lot of

the

same

content

for

everybody.

Now

Reddit

is

huge.

was born was the same content for everybody now reddit is huge

and so

the product is a lot of the

works

best when people are doing

looking at the

logged

in and

can

get

personalized

and so the product works best when people are logged in and can get personalized

recommendations

for

communities

and

content.

Second,

recommendations for communities and content second

it's a very important

gives you lot of

us

better

information

for to

target

ads

better.

it gives us better information for to target ads better

third

Third,

it lets you know

us

better protect the power of the

it lets us better protect

the

Reddit

corpus

of

data.

the vast majority of

the

scraping

and

stealing

of

Reddit has a lot of

the reddit corpus of data the vast majority of the scraping and

happens in

our

logout

user

base.

I'm going to go to the next store.

And

finally, it allows us to do

more easily use the same

stealing of reddit happens in our logout user base and finally

adapt to the

to

emerging

regulations

around the

world.

allows us to more easily adapt to emerging regulations around the world

Now, there will be a lot of people who are going to be

trade-offs

here.

So we would like

likely

be

trading

reach for the

now there will be trade offs here so we will likely be trading

engagement.

So, I'm going to use a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a

But when user logs in the

Red

Reddit, they're not going to be able to do

engage with the

much

more

reach for engagement but when a user logs into reddit they engage much more deeply

deeply.

But keep in

mind that the USB is a very important

that 80% of the

the

of monetary system is a very important

of

Reddit

happens

so keep in mind that eighty percent of the monetization of reddit

within

our

app and

logged

happens within our app and logged in

in

cohort.

And so I think there's

a lot

of

opportunity

here.

It's the reason

why I think

cohort and so i think there's a lot of opportunity here

many of

our

peers

went to

this

through

transition

uh

it's the reason why i think many of our peers went through this transition already

already.

we have to do that.

So, we're going a little bit of a test.

So in our task, we have to do a lot of the

we have

different

we have a lot of things that we have to

done is do a lot

looking at the

for is

to

is

so in our test what we're looking for is to see

see

you

know which

surfaces we

put

the

log

in

walls

up

on.

um,

when

we

do

So for example,

which surfaces we put the login walls up on

we want people

to go

Reddit dot

when we do it so for example we want people to go to reddit dot com

and

get

a

taste

of

Reddit.

We want link

sharing or

post

sharing on

Reddit

to

continue

work.

and get a taste of reddit we want link sharing or post sharing on reddit to continue to work

So figuring out

those

nuances is really

important.

Studying the

conversion

rate

on

different

so figuring out those nuances is really important

services is really

was

important.

Looking

at

studying the conversion rate on different services is really important looking at

how

engagement

or

how engagement

improves

on

the

other

side

of

that

how engagement or how engagement improves

conversion is

really

important.

And so all of these things are

complex and so I

on the other side of that conversion is really important and so

think

the best thing is that we can do

way

to look at the market the

that is that I'm going be able

just to get a lot of

test as soon as you

all of these things are complex and so i think the best way to learn that is just to get to a test as soon as

possible.

And so we'll be

doing

that in a few

markets outside of the

U.S.

as soon as we can do

to

possible and so we'll be doing that in a few markets outside the us

learn.

So then I'll hand over to

Jen

for

the

revenue

question, which is actually a good

really

as soon as we can to learn and so then i'll hand over to jen for the

related

to

this.

Yeah, sure.

um

the revenue question which is actually related to this yeah sure

So look, demand is really

strong.

Um

And obviously

we

grew

really

so look demand is really strong and

nicely

in two

Q3 and been

growing really

nicely.

obviously we grew really nicely in q3 and been growing really nicely

You know, a couple

of

things.

80% of our over 80% of the world

our

mind

monetization

sits on the

shoulders

a couple of things eighty percent of our over eighty percent of our monetization sits

of

logged

in

and

app

users

because

they

have

you

know

order

magnitude more than a

on the shoulders of logged in and app users because they have

engagement

and

order magnitude more engagement and frequency

frequency

than you

know

our

search

referral

logs are

out using the

users.

So

that's

really

than our search referral logged out users

our

bedrock.

And over 60% of the bedrooms are going

our

so that's really our bedrock and

business

is

performance

oriented.

So it's

really based on the

over sixty percent of our business is performance oriented so

business

outcomes,

right so

you

heard

that we

it's really based on business outcomes right so you heard

increase

click

volume

over

50% of

year

over

that we increased click volume over fifty percent year over year

year.

You know, we tripled

conversion

volume.

That's

actually

the

we tripled conversion volume

inventory

that we

need

to

grow

this

performance

segment

of

our

that's actually the inventory that we need to grow this

business. And

that's driven

by

ML

work,

signals

performance segment of our business and that's driven by

work,

et

cetera.

So we feel

really

ml work signals work etcetera so

good

about

our

headroom

here

in terms

of

ARPU.

we feel really good about our headroom here in terms of arpu

I mean, the, you

know, we'll get a little bit of a little bit of a

met as

ARPU.

There's a lot

of

headroom

between

where

we

i mean the you know if you look at meta's arpu

are

today

and where we

they

are.

And when

there's a lot of headroom between where we are today and where they are

you look at the engagement, we are going to be able to do

we have

of

Reddit

users, just the role

raw materials are

we

have

in terms

of

and when you look at the engagement of reddit users just the raw materials

engagement,

context.

That I think is a very important

have in terms of engagement context that i think

you

know

gives

us

a lot

of

confidence that we're going to be able to do

we

feel

like

we see

the

opportunity 'cause

because we're

still

mid-flight in

gives us a lot of confidence that we feel like we see the opportunity because we're still mid

our

building.

The other thing I want to do is that we can do

was just going to

saying is that we have

say we're going be able

saying is that we are to to do

is have a lot of things

that we that are going

is

mid flight in our building the other thing i'll just say is that

I

think

that

uh

you

a good

the

you know i think that you know the

The CPU is a very important

you

know grew

more

by

CPMs

than

by

impressions.

and were

cpms grew more by cpms than by

a

impressions and we're a marketplace

marketplace.

You have to remember

for lower funnel

outcomes, you

can

have

CPMs

that

are

triple

have to remember for lower funnel outcomes you can have cpms that are triple digits

digits.

What people are paying for is a lot of

that you can do

for is a lot of people who are not able

is

that

intent

and

that

concerns

to

the

what people are paying for is that intent and that conversion to the outcome

outcome.

And we think we have a

road

that's going to be a good

that continues

deliver on the

that

for

and we think we have a roadmap that continues to deliver on that for advertisers

advertisers.

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question

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Beck

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ahead.

Yeah, so if you're not

thank

for

taking a look at the

yes

thanks for taking the question

the

question.

I wanted

to kind

of

ask

on

some of

the

changes

that

you

i wanted to know kind of ask on some of the the

are

seeing

with within

the

Google

traffic.

changes that you are seeing with within the google's traffic

So, I think that's a good idea.

So,

If you

attribute it to the main thing, you can use

it to USB,

if you attribute to

to

four

updates

to

obviously

the

way

they're

updating

their

four updates to obviously the way they're updating

LLMs.

they obviously

have

a

big, you

shift towards

their llms they obviously have a big you know shift towards

AI.

overviews of

AI.

mode so there's

a

lot

of

compounding

factors. I'm

ai overviews ai mode so there's a lot of

just

curious

if

any

particular you

one

compounding factors i'm just curious if

or

two

stood

out in terms

of

some

any particular one or two stood out in terms of some of the

of

the

traffic.

trends.

And then on

the

pay

user

marketing, sort

certainly

sounds really

the traffic trends and then on the on the paid user marketing

like

the

retention is

improving and you

are

kind

of

it certainly sounds like the retention's improving and you are

encouraged

by

I'm

just

curious

maybe.

kind of encouraged by that i'm just curious maybe

far

could

we

potentially take a look at the

the

paid

user

marketing

is

far could we potentially take

that

something

that you

know

can

start

to

really

lean

in

the paid user marketing is that something that

toward

to

more

heavily

next

year thank

you could start to really lean in toward to more heavily next year thank you

you.

Thanks,

Josh.

thanks josh so

So on the change from

Google,

or

hypothesis

is

twofold.

The biggest

one

on the change from google our hypothesis is twofold

is

that AI

over the

overviews

or AI.

the biggest one is the ai overviews or ai mode

mode.

I think that's a good idea.

Both have

evolved a

both have evolved a lot

lot.

and

particularly

recently

they appear to be a lot of

expanding

them

quite

aggressively and

the

book in

the

US and

particularly recently they appear to be expanding them quite aggressively and they both

outside.

So what

started

at

the end of

as

a

in the u and outside so what started as a feature

feature

is

now

the

full

search

experience.

And at the

minimum it pushes

everyone

down

the

search

is now the full search experience and at the minimum it pushes everyone down

page.

And

then on top of

that,

the experience is a very important

themselves

are

not

traffic.

the search page and then on top of that the experiences themselves are not

drivers.

And so these things

combine

with the

role

this

just

means

Google

has

really shown that the game is a good

traffic drivers and so these things combined with the rollout just means google has really

shifted

shifted in

in

their

relationship

with

the

rest of

the

internet.

There's a second factor that is the same

which is a very important

we

believe the

their relationship with the rest of the internet there's a second factor

are machine

translation

which we believe our machine translated content

content

is

also

being

ranked

lower.

So this primarily would affect the

us outside of the

is also being ranked lower so this primarily would affect us outside the u s

U.S.

What the fuck is

this

isn't

likely,

but

we

don't have to do

what this isn't likely but we don't have

visibility

into

this, is

the sort of algorithm

change

where I would

say,

hey

these things are going to be a little bit

come and

visibility into this is the sort of algorithm change

go.

This appears to be a very good

really

the

rollout

of AI.

where i would say hey these things come and go this appears to be really the

mode.

Uh, and

maybe

a

change

in

the

machine

translation.

the rollout of ai mode and maybe a a change in the machine

or

how

they translate

treat

that.

Reddit has a lot of

however, is a very important

still good

top

search

term in the United

translation or how they treat that reddit however is still a top search

Google.

So this doesn't say

anything about the Google

Internet

consumers demanding

demand

for

term in google so this doesn't say anything about the internet consumers' demand for reddit

Reddit.

People still want to do

Reddit.

It says

Google is not sending them to the

Reddit the way it

they use

used

people still want reddit it's just google is not sending them to reddit the way they used to

to.

Given

our

strategy is

to make sure that we can do

Reddit

a

direct

given our strategy is to make reddit a direct destination

destination,

this

is

actually in line with the

our

strategy because

Google

is

teaching

people

that if

you want

to

come

Reddit, you need to be able to do

come Red Red Red Red

this is actually in line with our strategy because google is teaching people

to

that if you want to come to reddit you need to come to reddit

Reddit.

I can take

the

paid

marketing

i can take the paid marketing question so

question.

So, you know, we

just

um

started

doing

app

and

install

campaigns

mainly

in the

we just started doing app install

US

And so

it's

it's

early in

terms

of

campaigns mainly in the us and so it's so it's early in terms of scale

scale.

But, you

know, what

we like is

that

they return to

that we have is a very important

lot of the same

seeing is that

the

equivalent to

our

but you know what we like is that the retention that we're seeing is

organic

equivalent to our organic users

users.

So that's

promising.

Now that's still a low

base.

but I only have a lot of

the

work

that

we're doing is

going to be able to

doing

so that's promising now that's still low base so

in

the

core

products

around

fees

and

but all the work that we're doing in the core product around fees and

notifications

and

notifications and personalization

personalization.

you know that should

list

retention

for

all

the

users.

and

hopefully

including

that should lift retention for all the users and hopefully including

the

return of the

on

our on

app

install

campaign.

So it's

early

but

the return on our app install campaign so

we, you

see

scale

there.

Less

known, I

I'd say

out of the

it's early but we see scale there

outside

less known i'd say outside of the u s

U.S.

we

are having a lot

happy

that

our

brand

work

is

driving

we are happy that our brand work is driving efficiency

efficiency

in

App

Install.

So that's

good.

you know so we'll cross

our

full

funnel

approach

for

in app install so that's good so across

us, I

a full funnel approach for us i think

think will

make

sense

because

it

will

drive

efficiency in terms

of

acquiring

those

will make sense because it will drive efficiency in terms of acquiring

app

apt

users.

And you know, I think

we're going to

start with the first

process of the

those app users and i think we're going to start the process of

looking at the

re-engagement

campaigns

for

some of

our

logged

and

app

of looking at reengagement campaigns for some of our logged in

users as

well.

and app users as well so

So, I think that's a good idea.

So

early

but

so

far

the app is a very good

install

shift I

think

has

been

early but so far the app install shift i think has been promising

Yeah, yeah,

You're

next question

is

from

the

line

of

John

Colentoni

your next question is from the line of john colantoni

from

Jeffries.

Your line is now

open.

Please

go

from jefferies

ahead.

Great. Thanks very

for taking my

question.

Just wanted to quickly add a

ask

about

the

logged

in

only

just wanted to quickly ask about the logged in only shift

shift.

Two things

there.

Number one

is are

you

still

gonna

going to

offer

two things there number one is

a

light

version

of

Reddit

that's

available with the

without

logging

are you still gonna offer a light version of reddit

in.

And just to

confirm

is

that's available without logging in and just to confirm is this

this

just

a

just a test

test

or

are

you

definitively going to test

go this

direction?

or are you definitively going to go this direction

And

second, on

engagement, I

know

the clients

have

continued

and second on engagement i know

into

4Q,

but

curious

if

you're

the clients have continued into 4q but curious if you're seeing

seeing

any

green

shoots

beyond

just

user

count

that

are

worth

highlighting.

any green shoots beyond just user count that are worth highlighting

Thanks.

thanks

Sure. John, thanks for the

questions.

So for logged in

only,

sure john thanks for the questions so for logged in only

part of

the purpose

of

the

task

is

to

answer that

question you

asked.

part of the purpose of the task is to answer that question you

Is there a light version

of

Reddit?

Which is like, what is

the

boundary?

And so we need

to

find

the

is there a light version of reddit which is like what what is the boundary

right

boundary

to

and so we need to find the right boundary to

you

know provide

value

to

the

user.

whether they're

coming

from a

shared

link

or

maybe

from

search

know provide value to the user you know whether they're coming from a shared link or maybe

themselves

or

trying

out

Reddit.

And so I think there will be

a ton of

nuance and

detail

from search themselves or trying out reddit and so i think there will be

a ton of nuance and detail there

there for

us

to

iterate

on.

And so

that's the thing

be

some version of the

Reddit

accessible for the

for us to iterate on and so that there'll be some

those

moments

before

we

do

that

hard

prompt.

version of reddit accessible for those moments before we do that hard prompt

This is a

test, but we're going to be able to do

we

are going

make a

this

this is a test but we are going to make this transition

transition.

I think the engagement is

important.

The ads

targeting is

i think the engagement is important the

important.

The protecting our

corpus

is very

ads targeting is important the protecting our corpus

very

important.

and it

having

a

firmer

footy

firmer

footing

is very important and having a firmer footy

to

adapt the

regulation

is

also

important.

So there's a lot of reasons for doing

this.

firmer footing to adapt the regulation is also important so there's a lot of reasons for doing this

And at this point

we're

the only

platform

that

does

doesn't do

this. And

so

and at this point we're the only platform that doesn't do this and so

um you know

Reddit has just

evolved so

much that I

think

this

just

meets

the

needs

of

the

time.

you know reddit has just evolved so much i think this just meets the needs of the time

so

So, I think that's a good idea.

So on

engagement, we're

on engagement we're seeing

seeing

lots

of

green

shoots.

So our

work

on

feeds,

which

has

been so much more than a

of the things that we're

our

lots of green shoots so our work on feeds which is

most

important

work this

year,

is

the

engagement

for

new

and

some of our most important work this year is

core

users.

new user

retention

is

upside

significantly

over the course of

improving engagement for new and core users new user retention is up

this

year

and

sequentially.

posts

and

significantly over the course of this year and sequentially posts and comments

comments.

are

up on the

sequentially as

well.

Our corpus is

up the

to

are up sequentially as well our corpus

27

billion

posts

and

comments.

a billion of

those

added in

the last two

is up to twenty seven billion posts and comments billion of those added in the last quarter

quarter.

Time on

site has been a very good

time on-site has been solid

solid.

Where we're seeing mixed

results

is

total

sessions

are

down

because

of

that

decline

in

search

referral

where we're seeing mixed results is total sessions are down the

traffic.

But we're

growing where

it can

counts,

which

is

engaging with the

of that decline in search referral traffic but we're growing where accounts

from

our

app

and

logged

in

which is engagement from our app and logged in users

users.

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Phoebe,

maybe

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talk

maybe on a related note steve maybe just talk about

about

the

opportunity

for

content

licensing you already

have

existing

relationships

the opportunity for content licensing you already had existing relationships with

with

an

open

OpenAI.

and

with

Google for

Gemini. And

with openai and with with google for gemini

since you're you know

testing

logged

in

and and since you're you know testing logged in and

and

planning to

go

down

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that

route. How do

you are you

thinking

about

continuing

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planning to go down that route how do you how are you thinking about continuing to license the

the

the

the corpus

corpus

to

these

to these partners

partners.

Sure.

sure so

So

thank

you for the

question.

It doesn't

change

um

anything we

mentioned on the

call doesn't

thank you for the question it doesn't change

change

our

perspective

there.

Uh we don't have any

updates to

share, though we're

anything we mentioned on the call doesn't change our perspective there we don't have any updates to share though we're

in

active

discussions.

Um but what's most important is that we're going to be able to do

is that we're

going be

to able to do

is

that

any

deal

we

active discussions but what's most important is that

do

needs

to

advance

our

long

long-term

term

any deal we do needs to advance our long term strategy

strategy and has to be able to do

a

fair

exchange

of

value.

Now these

deals aren't going to be a very important

by the

binary,

has to be a fair exchange of value now these deals aren't binary however

however.

There's a

bunch

of

options.

So on one end,

there's access

for

training, but

then

there's a bunch of options so on one end there's access

there's

also

display and

use

and

products.

for training but then there's also display and use some products

And then on the other hand, there's

more

specific

use of

our

content.

and then on the other end there's more specific uses of our content

So we're only going to

do

what makes it a lot of

sense and it's in

the

best

interest

for

Reddit

so we're only going to do what makes sense and is in the best interest for reddit

strategically

and

economically.

which

strategically and economically which does

does

potentially

include

not

doing a

deal.

but those conversations are not a good

continue to

potentially include not doing a deal but those conversations continue to progress

progress.

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Steve, I'm going to go ahead and do

you can do

got to be able to

me

the bit of a little bit of

business

for a long

period of

time. I'm

steve you you've led the business for a long period of time i'm just

just

curious

curious if

if

uh

the

current period

reminds me of the

you

the current period reminds you of

of

uh

you

know

any

dynamic

you've

experienced in

the

past

and

and kind

of

your

thoughts

on

how

any dynamic you've experienced in the past and

kind of your thoughts on how to

to

how

guide

the

company.

to guide the company

and

the

team

through

this

period of

transition

and

and the team through this period of transition

kind

of

balancing

near

term

and long

long-term

and kind of balancing near term and long term objectives

objectives.

If I could

squeeze just one more

in

Drew,

just

curious

if i could squeeze just one more in drew just curious

your

latest

thoughts

latest thoughts on

on

user

monetization

in

the

U.S.

ARPU

growth

has

been you

user monetization in u s arpu growth

know

really

consistent at

50%

percent

plus.

just you're

has been really consistent at fifty percent plus

your

latest

just your latest thought

thought

on

um

on

that

that that trend

trend. Thank

you.

Thanks for the

questions,

Tom.

thanks for the questions tom so

So

This is a very good

good

of

consequential

time

for

Reddit.

this is a consequential time for reddit

And this period

does

remind

me

of

and this period does remind me of

me

of

about

11

years

ago when

I came to the

back United

the

company

And

we've

had a lot

about eleven years ago when i came back to the company

of

conversations with the

then

about

what

is

Reddit

and

what

and we've had a lot of conversations then about

is

Reddit

for and

what is

our

place

in

this

what is reddit and what is reddit for and what is our place in this ecosystem

ecosystem?

And we've been

having

those

conversations at

Red

Reddit

and we've been having those conversations at reddit recently

recently.

And so Reddit's

mission is to be able to do

create

community

and belong to the

belonging for

everyone in the

on

world.

And while there's

and so reddit's mission is to create community and belonging for everyone in the world

overlap, the world is a very important

between

the

Reddit

and other

players in the

ecosystem,

whether

we're

talking about the

social

and while there's overlap between reddit and other players in the ecosystem

media

or AI.

whether we're talking about social media or ai search

search.

Fundamentally,

Reddit

is

communicating with the

and

conversations.

It's a place

for people to

come

fundamentally reddit is communities and conversations

together.

It's a

fun

and

funny

place.

it's a place for people to come together it's a fun and funny place

Uh and it's a a

it's with you through the

throughout

life's

journey.

And

so,

yeah, this is a good

and it's a it's with you throughout life's journey

some over

overlap in

utility and

search

and

and so yeah there's some overlap in utility and search and shopping

shopping.

Uh, but really

Reddit, I

think is

but really reddit i think is a

the

is

a

unique

product

on

the

internet

that

can

play

a

really

significant

role in

is a unique product on the internet that

people's

lives.

And that's why

the RTA

team

we choose

to work with the team is a lot of people

work

can play a really significant role in people's lives and that's why the

at

Reddit,

over

our

peers

is

here.

our team who chooses to work at reddit over our peers is here

and so

And so these are the sorts of

things

that

get

us

really

energized.

One thing I'm

very excited about is that I'm not going to be

about is

that I'm sure if

not going to be

in

the

these are the sorts of things that get us really energized one thing i'm very excited

near to

midterm

are some of

the

product

improvements

from

we're

making

to kind

in the near to mid term are some of the product improvements we're making to

of

realize that we're going to be able to

all of

this.

So there's some fun

stuff we're

doing in the core

kind of realize all of this so there's some fun stuff we're doing in the

app

epic

experience.

that I

think for

both

new and

core

core app experience that i think for both new and core users

users

will

allow

the

user

to

more

consistently

get

to

where

they're

going.

So, if you have a lot of things that are to be a very good thing.

They more

will allow the user to more consistently get to where they're going

consistently

see

the

this trend is a very important

this

is

news, these

are

my

favorite

they more consistently see this is trending this is news these are my favorite subreddits

subreddits, here's my game.

gains. Here's

some video.

videos.

here's my games here's some videos

That sort of

work is a very good

really

exciting

because

it really

I

think,

brings to

life

all

of

that

Reddit

has to

that sort of work is really exciting because it really i think

offer.

And I think that's one of

the challenges that we have to

brings to life all of that reddit has to offer and i think that's one of the

face

for a lot of

long

time.

is hey, how do you

sell

this

product in

the first

challenges we faced for a long time is hey how do you sell this product in the first session

session when

they're

so

many

things you can

do on

it.

So

yes, we're going to do

be able

seeing

a lot

when there's so many things you can do on so

of

big

evolutions

with

the

yes we're seeing a lot of big evolutions with the

Google

search

ecosystem

changes with

this

transition to

login

in

only.

google search ecosystem changes with this transition to log in only

But alongside the

that, logo is a very good

but alongside that

we're

involved in

the

some

areas

of

the

product that

I

think would

be

really

fun.

and I think

really

great

for

our

we're investing in some areas of the product that i think will be really fun and i think really great for our users

users.

Okay, Drew, the second

question

was

okay drew the second question was

about

monetization in

and

our

archival.

Yeah, that

about RPU.

Look, uh, Tom, I think it's just an

extension

of the

about monetization and arpu yeah about arpu look tom i think it's just an extension

journey we've

been talking

about

before.

I I

think

the

ARCU

potential

of

Reddit

is

as good

the

of the journey we've been talking about before i think the arpu potential of reddit is as

good as anybody

as

anybody.

It

just

we have to

a

number

of

advantages, I

think, as a

platform

that

really

differentiate

it's just we have a number of advantages i think as

us.

I think it starts with the same

what

Jen

was talking

about, which

is

platform that really differentiate us i think it starts

outcomes and

getting

the

most

making

with what jen was talking about which is outcomes and getting the most

every

impression

work

hard.

and I think that's what we've been

really

successful

making every impression work hard and i think that's what we've been really successful

at.

But if I think about the raw

materials

of

Reddit, I think it's a very good

really

we're going to be able to do

in the middle of the

a couple

at but then if i think about the raw materials of reddit i really think we're advantaged in a couple of ways we've

ways.

We've been talking about this for a long

time. It's

just now

come

into

to

fruition in terms

of

those

words coming

to

been talking about this for a long time it's just now coming to fruition in terms of

life.

But

look, I think that's a good

for the first

different

differentiation

perspective,

our consumers are a very good

is

just

those words coming to life but look i think from a differentiation

perspective our consumer is just different

different

They're

are more

balanced.

they're more

affluent,

they

have

more

purchasing

they're broader they're more balanced they're more affluent

power.

It's just a very

differentiated

consumer.

they have more purchasing power it's just a very differentiated consumer

A lot of our consumers aren't on other

platforms. It

matters.

Like in

And you're seeing

that

a lot of our consumers aren't on other platforms it matters

in

our

financial

results and

then the other piece I'd say again with the

raw

like and you're seeing that in our financial results and then

materials, we're going

just

naturally

commercial. I mean

so many of

the other piece i'd say again with the raw materials we're just naturally commercial

the you

subreddits

themselves

organize

into

things

like

i mean so many of the subreddits themselves organize into things like

skiing

and

travel,

which

monitors

themselves so

many of

the

skiing and travel which monetize themselves

descriptions

and kind

conversations

have

you know sort

of

inherent

roots

in

so many of the descriptions and conversations have

commercialization.

I think

again, the platform

has

have sort of inherent roots in commercialization

context,

right?

You're not

putting it

an

ad

in front of

a video.

that doesn't have a lot of

i think again the platform has context right you're not

make

any

sense. You

understand

and

really

putting an ad in front of a video that doesn't make any sense you understand and really have

have kind

of

the

raw

materials to

be

successful

there.

So I really think that

at the end of the

day,

it's

about what

genes

was talking

about, which

the raw materials to be successful there so i really think at the end the day it's about what jen was talking about

is

outcomes

That's really what we're

focusing

focused

I think that's a good

But I do think that we're going to be able to do

we

continue to do

see sort

is outcomes that's really what we're focused on but i do think we can

of

the

advantage

of

the

platform

which are

the

raw

materials

around you

to see sort of the advantages of the platform are the raw materials around

know a

differentiated

consumer

and

a

really

naturally

commercial

a differentiated consumer and a really naturally commercial platform

platform.

You're not going to be able to do

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from

line

of

Ron

Josie

from

City.

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your next question is from the line of ron josey from

open,

please

go

citi

ahead.

Great, Steve.

thanks to

Thanks for

taking the

question.

I wanted to

ask a little bit about

the

more

i wanted to ask

just

ask a little bit more just about

about

converting

or

making

Reddit

more of a

daily

habit in the

process

of

converting

the

to

wows

to

dows

converting or making reddit more of a daily habit in the process of converting the wow's to thousand

and we talked a

lot

about

clearly

the

search

issues.

externally,

but if

you

could

we talked a lot about clearly the search issues externally but

focus

just

more

on

the

internal

products a little

bit

more,

the

deck

talks

about you

if you could focus just more on the internal products a little bit more

know

changes to

the

feed

that

are

personalization.

the deck talks about changes to the feed

we've talked

about

search

and

answers in the

past

So help

us

better personalization we've talked about search and and answers in the past so

understand a

little

bit

more

just how to do

the

how

will

we

convert

the

wow

to

dows

help us understand a little bit more just how the how will we convert the wow's to tails here

here. Thank

thank you

you.

Thanks for the

question,

Ron.

So this is what I was starting to get

at in

thanks for the question ron so

my

last

answer.

Now, long term,

or

medium

term I

is what i was starting to get at in my last answer now

think it'll be

would

it easier to

show

not

long term or medium term i think it'll be easier to show and not tell

tell.

But

today the

core Reddit

experience

is

a few of the things that we

a

but today the core reddit experience is a feed

feed.

And it's a feed of

posts.

and those posts are a

all

have

a

it's a feed of posts and those posts all have

a

different

content

types,

You might be looking at

a lot of

link, a

text, video

the

different content types right you might be looking at a link a text video

subreddit might be, you

happy

or

profound,

funny

or

deep.

the subreddit might be you know happy or profound funny or deep so

So it's all

in

one

place.

so one of the

things I've done is that I'm going to

we're working on right

now

is adding a lot of

it's all in one place and so one of the things that we're working on right now is

more

organization

to

the

feed.

so

adding more organization to the feed so that

that

posts

for

a

similar

job and a

similar

content

type and a similar type of

mood

are

posts for a similar job and a similar content type

grouped

together.

so that

you

more

consistently get a little bit

what you

you're looking

for when you're looking at the

you

a similar mood are grouped together so that you more consistently get what you're looking

open

for when you open the app

the app.

Right?

so I, you know, in a core

user, you know, I might open

the

app

I

want to

know what's going

on.

right so i you know in a core user you know i might open the app so i wanna know what's going

I might want to have a few

locks. I might

be looking at the

for a lot of

game.

or

episode

thread for

the

show I

i might wanna have a few laughs i might be looking for the game or episode thread for the show i watch

last night

watched last

night. I might be in a moo lean back

mood for videos.

I might be in a lean back

leaned in

mood for games.

i might be in a lean back mood for videos

things like

that.

So I

i might be in a lean in mood for games things like that so i think

think

that's a good

able

to

find these

things

very

quickly when

you

know

they're

there,

that's

what

being able to find these things very quickly when you know they're there

gives people a lot of

confidence to

open the app as a

daily

habit.

that's what gives people confidence to open the app as a daily

because I know what my experience is going to

be.

And so I think if we get

something, I think that's a good

habit because i know what my experience is going to be and so i think if we get something

something

that

is a little bit

a little

less grab

from

where we

are

today.

Here's a feed of

lot

that is a little little less grab baggy from where we are today

a crazy

stuff to something that's more

consistent.

that's how we can

drive

here's a feed of a lot of crazy stuff to something that's more consistent

that

daily

that's how we can drive that daily habit

habit. That's how it converts

those

wows to the

dows.

And I think this will make the

app

what converts those wows to dials and i think this will make the app

more

more

easier

to

easier to understand

to

understand

natively to a

new

user.

Because we can actually just label

these

things. Here is

trending, here is

here's

natively to a new user because we're gonna actually just label these things

news

Here's some

games.

here's

some

memes.

Now, we've got to build

this

thing

here's trending here's news here's some games here's some memes

in

and test

now we've got to build this thing and test it

it.

and I think there will

be

a lot

of

iteration.

but I think

really

i think there'll be a lot of iteration but i think really embracing

embracing

all

of

the

different

jobs

that

the

app

all of the different jobs that the app does

does.

intentionally is

how

we

can

develop

more

of

this

daily

habit.

intentionally is how we can develop more of this daily habit

I'm very

excited about

this because we've been

thinking about

this for a

long

so i'm very excited about this because we've been thinking about this for a long time

long

time.

You're not going to be able to do

next

question

is

from

the

line

of

Andrew

Boone

from

your next question is from the line of andrew boone from citizens

Citizens. Your line

is

now

open,

Please go

your line is now open please go ahead

ahead.

Thanks

much

so

for

taking the

questions.

Steve, I wanted to ask

about

thanks so much for taking the questions

the

traffic.

that's

leaving

from

Google.

And so what I'm trying to

steve i wanted to ask about the traffic that's leaving from

understand

is

what

you

can

do

to

either

develop

the

app

or

google and so what i'm trying to understand is what you can do to either develop the app or

push

on

certain

use

cases

that

are going

to

be

sticky.

And so is there anything

that

you

can

explain to

on certain use cases that are gonna be sticky and so is there anything that you can explain to us

us

about

the

traffic

that's

leaving?

are they looking

for

more

informational

type

of

about the traffic that's leaving are they looking for more informational

type of posts

posts.

are

it

is

just

a

broad

kind

or it is it just a broad based kind of

of

lack

of

exposure that

you're

getting

from

Google.

lack of exposure that you're getting from google and then jen as we think about

And then, Jen, as we think about the renewal,

coming

up,

for

the renewals coming up for twenty twenty seven

2027.

In

the

conversations

that you're

having

with Abu

that

are

more

brand-based,

are

you

in the conversations you're having with advertisers that are more brand based

seeing

any

conversations around the

around

advertisers trying

to

get

into

are you seeing any conversations around

advertisers trying to get into pretraining

pre-training

were

or

Reddit

is

really

a

way

to

get

into

their

corpus

of

data.

What is

where reddit is really a way to get into their corpus of data what is that

What is

that

influence

in terms

of

thinking

about

the

renewals?

for

the

next

year? Thanks so

influence in terms of thinking about the renewals for the next year

much.

So

so

thank

for

the

questions,

Andrew.

So on

Google, let

me

start with the first

second

part.

like what is the

thanks for the questions andrew so on google let me start with the second part like what is the

change

change?

So let me tell you

what

didn't

change.

The word

Reddit

is

still

among

the

most

searched

so let me tell you what didn't change the word reddit is

words

on

Google.

So this says that

the

still among the most searched words on google

demand

for reducing the

hasn't

changed from

the

Internet

consumer.

so this says that demand for reddit hasn't changed from the internet consumer

Also, Google

is quite a bit of a good

the

us as far

hard we

ever.

So the demand

hasn't

changed

from

their

point of

view

also is crawling us as hard as ever so the demand hasn't changed from their point of view either

either.

The reality is that the demand is a very important

that

the reality is

the

the

AI

mode does

not

drive traffic.

ai mode does not drive traffic

Not for

us and not for

to

anybody

as

far

I

as

know.

And so it's just a

fundamental

not for us and not to anybody as far as i know and so that's just a fundamental shift

shift in how Google

works.

It used to be a traffic

driver, now it's a

not.

in how google works it used to be a traffic driver now it's not

So now that's a very good

so now that

that

she's a little bit of a

the

equation for

sure.

Um but it's not that the user

want

changes the equation for sure but it's not that the users want less

less.

it's just that

they're getting

it's just that they're getting

it.

Now on the other hand, it's a very good

side of the

that, they're not going to be able

that, what are the

sticky

use of the

cases for next

now on the other side of that what are the sticky use cases for reddit

Reddit?

well

Well,

Reddit

is

the

best place to do

see what's going

reddit is the best place to see what's going on

on.

Reddit

has the

best place to see

I

think,

conversations of the

about

whatever

you

did last

reddit has the best i think conversations about whatever you did last night

night.

What show did

you

watch?

What game did you

watch?

Uh we've

what show did you watch what game did you watch we've got

got

totally

unique

content,

right? About

every

hobby in your

totally unique content right about every hobby interest

interest,

passion,

life

stage.

And so what I was talking

about is that I'm going to be able

about in

my

previous

passion life stage and so what i was talking about in my previous answer

answer

is

just

making

those

experiences

much

more

consistent.

So when you

n open

the app,

you

is just making those experiences much more consistent

know what

you're going to

get.

I think this will

benefit

the

so when you open the app you know what you're gonna get i think this will benefit

core

and

new

users

the core and new users alike

alike.

Now

that

alongside

that

now that alongside that our

our

work

on

feeds

is

driving

work on feeds is driving results

results.

starting

now.

And

so

just

simply

starting now and so just simply

you

know

we've

you know we've grown

grown

by an

order

of

magnitude

the amount

of

signal

that

goes

into

our

models,

the

size of size of size of

the

our

by an order of magnitude the amount of signal that goes into our models the

models.

we've

dramatically reduced the

time it

takes

to

size of our models we've dramatically reduced the time it takes to

train

new

models

to deploy new

models.

All of

these

things have

I've

grown

train new models to deploy new models all of these things have grown

significantly in the last

few

couple of

quarter.

And we've

got a

whole

what's

call

it

another

significantly in the last quarter and we've got a whole

year

of

runway

there.

So

just the

feed

itself,

right

now is a lot of

let's call it another year of runway there so just the feed it's

driving

more

engagement

for

new

and

core

users.

itself right now is driving more engagement for new and core users so

So I think there's short

work we can

continue to

continue to

do on

the

feed.

and I think a lot

i think there's short term work we continue to do on the feed and i think a lot of

of exciting

product

work

that will

make

this

kind

of

sticky

or

daily

use

exciting product work that will make this kind of sticky or daily use cases

cases

more

effective on

more effective on reddit

Reddit.

Okay, so Jen, the second

question

okay so jen the second question is

is

brand

brands

and

free

pre-training?

Yeah, I was gonna

going to ask just a little

for

clarification.

do you

brands and pre training yeah i was gonna

mean are you referring to the

like

the

idea

of

brands

wanting

ask just for a clarification do you mean are you referring to like the idea of

to

come

to

Reddit to

be

on

Reddit

to kind

of show

up

in

LLMs? Is

brands wanting to come to reddit to be on reddit

to kinda show up in llms is that

that?

Yeah, I think that's a good idea.

Yeah,

correct.

yeah correct

Okay.

Yeah, so um so

look, I'm gonna go ahead and do

the

okay yeah so

reason

it

comes

and

in

advertise

on

Reddit,

we

say

this

really

clearly,

is

so look the reason to come and advertise on reddit we say this

to

come

for

the

engaged

audience

and

to

get

competitive

really clearly is to come for the engaged audience and to get competitive outcomes

outcomes.

to grow

your

business.

That's

scalable.

it's

repeatable,

it's

to grow your business right that's scalable it's

measured, it's

a little

measured it delivers

delivers

more and

more

ROI.

And that is why advertisers come to the

us and why

they're

growing

their

share of

wallet for

more and more roi and that is why advertisers come to us and why they're growing their share of wallet

us. It's

like that core

proposition

for

reaching the

Reddit

us it's like that core proposition for reaching the reddit audience

audience.

I think that's a good question.

Um I I think there's been

this idea of the idea of

like

TEO

i i think there's been this you know idea of like ceo or

or

you know

kind

of

organic

et

cetera.

you know kind of organic etcetera and

And I wasn't saying

we've

been

very

open about

this with

our

partners, like we're

pretty

skeptical

of

i was just saying we've been very open about this with our partners like

GEO.

Reddit itself is

pretty

inoculated

to

we're pretty skeptical of geo reddit itself is pretty inoculated to like

like

manipulation, I would

say.

and yes, it

that it's a good

to

spend time with

the

right

Reddit

manipulation i would say and yes it is good to

audience

and

have

more

fans and

more

customers

within

Reddit

by

spend time with the reddit audience and have more fans and more customers within reddit by

using

our

scalable

marketing

platform to

get them

those

outcomes because they

might talk about the

using our scalable marketing platform to get those outcomes

you

and

you

know

when

would

need

customers

in the

order

to have a lot of

that

experience.

But

because they might talk about you and you would need customers in order to have that experience

that's

not

the

primary

reason

our advertisers

come to the best of the

us.

The reason why they

work with

us is that we have to do

but that's not the primary reason our advertisers come to us

us

is

because

of

reaching

that

high

highly

engaged

the reason why they work with us is because of reaching that

highly engaged audience

audience

where

they're

able

to

get

business out of the

outcomes

from

our

marketing

platform.

where they're able to get business outcomes from our marketing platform

So

it's

not

in

our

partnerships

so it's not in our partnerships today

today.

You know, it's

not

a core

piece

of what

we

do with

our

advertising

partners

it's not a core piece of what we do with our advertising partners

today

today.

I think that's a good idea.

I understand from their point of

view it's

something

broadly

that

they're

thinking

about

because

they're

also

dealing with the

i understand from their point of view it's something broadly that they're

changes in

the

broader

search

I think that's a good

But it's

just

not

a part of

the

about because they're also dealing with changes in the broader search landscape

but it's just not a part of

the

what we're

of

not a centerpiece of what we're doing

doing.

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my question is for

Stephen.

Uh Stephen at the

conference a couple of years

days

months

ago,

you

my question is for steven steven at the conference

said

that

down

the

road

you

can

a couple of months ago you said that down the road

see

Red

making

some

acquisitions

to

help

you

you can see reddit making some acquisitions

expand

the use of

the

base.

So I was wondering if I was a good

you're going to be able to do

you

to help you expand the user base

if could tell us a little bit about

more

what kind

of

so i was wondering if you could tell us a little more what kind of company

company

could

do

that for

you.

could do that for you and

and um

it's a very good

there

that the majority of the

something you can

more of

a

priority

now that

given

how

the

trends

have

been

is that something more of a priority now that given how the

playing

out

since

you

said

that. Thank

trends have been playing out since you said that thank you

you.

All right. Thanks for the

question.

So when we think

about

MNA, we have to do

and

so when i think about m and a

there

are

there are

a lot

couple

of

possible

objectives.

What we've done

historically has

a couple of possible objectives what we've done historically has been

been

small

to

medium

medium-sized

teams

plus

their

small to medium sized teams plus their tech

tech.

We've not done

a series of

serious

acquisition

for

users.

and that's

not

on

our

radar right

we've not done a serious acquisition for users

now.

The

best way to do that is that we can use the same

way to do is

for us that use

to

grow

users

and that's not on our radar right now the best way for us to grow users

is

to

is to

capture

the

opportunity to use

that we have to

right

on

our

to capture the opportunity that we have right on our doorstep

doorstep.

We

we have

have three major

channels

even

today.

The first is our

unattributed

three major channels even today the first is our unattributed downloads

downloads.

We see a

ton

of

unattributed

downloads

every

day.

So these are

people basically

word

of

we see a ton of unattributed downloads every day so these are people

mouth

users who

are in the middle of the

interested

in

trying

basically word-of-mouth users who are interested in trying reddit

Reddit.

And

and so

so that is why I'm going to do

we

have been

so focused on the

New

user

retention.

Now,

that is why we have been so focused on new user retention now we

we really

moved the

needle

here and I think

we

have

a place to do

of

room

to

go.

But new user attention

is

really moved the needle here and i think we have plenty of room to go

but new user retention is up

up.

over

50%

year on

year.

So providing those users

a

better

over fifty percent year on year so providing those users a better experience

experience.

Second, Reddit

has a

large number of

reinstalls every

second reddit has a large number of reinstalls every day

day.

And so we think that's a good

this is very

users coming

for a

particular type

of

content and

and so we think this is users coming for a particular type

then

uninstalling

Reddit when

they're

done.

And so we think

adding

an increase in

content and then uninstalling reddit when they're done and so we think adding

mode

basically is a good

private

browsing

mode in

our

app will

help

mitigate

this

I think that's a good

So,

an incognito mode basically a private browsing mode in our app will help mitigate this effect

And then finally, we've got a lot of the same

and then finally we've got

got

the

conversion

from

mobile

web for

the

search

referred

users.

the conversion from mobile web for the search referred users

While the search referrals are in

decline,

they're still in the

a lot of things that are

them.

And so we've been

driving that

while the search referrals are in decline there's still a lot of them

conversion for the last

couple of

quarters.

I think that's a good idea.

so we've been driving that conversion for the last couple of quarters

And as

I mentioned in my

script,

and as i mentioned in my script we're

we're

this quarter is a very important

only

this quarter only showed

showed

that

conversion

prompts

about

thirteen

of

the

eligible

audience

there.

so there's plenty of

room

to

scale.

that conversion prompt about thirteen percent of the eligible audience there so there's plenty of room to scale

So I

think

before we start to do that, I'm going to go ahead

with the screen, we can see

about

on the

about

using acquisition, we can use the same

to

grow

so i think before we start thinking about using acquisition to grow users

users.

We need to

make

our

product the most important

effective

way

to

grow

users

because the

we need to make our product the most effective way to grow users because the opportunities

opportunities

are

are

basically

at

scale and on

our

doorstep.

and

basically at scale and on our doorstep and they're

they're very,

very

large.

It's hard to move the

needle

against

the

results we'll

see

very very large it's hard to move the needle against the results we'll see through

through

you

know

even

small

improvements

to

new

user

even small improvements to new user retention

retention.

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Thanks. Appreciate

you,

giving us this

heads

up

thanks appreciate you again giving us this heads up that

that you

your

you're

testing

logged

in

only

but you

know

but

it

is

the

you're testing logged in only but

plan.

So I guess as we're

all

sitting

here

saying,

what does it

kind

of

the

but it is the plan so i guess as we're all sitting here saying what

modeling look

does kind of the modeling look like

like

in

that

world

whenever

whenever it does

in that world whenever it does happen

happen.

um,

I

mean

obviously

you're

you

know

the

effective

ARPU

from

a lot of

logged in

user

obviously

obviously the effective arpu from a logged in user

math,

map would

becomes a

lot

higher

obviously becomes a lot higher but

but

is

there

just

a way to do

that you can use the

is there just a way to

to

kind

of

help

kind of help us

us

because you

know

how

we

should

be

thinking

about

it do

we

because how we should be thinking about it do we go

go,

okay, you

know,

logged

in

okay logged in as

is

you

know,

twenty

fi twenty percent

of

DAU and

then we

have

our

own

version

of

percent of dau and then we have our own version of a

a

logged

in

ARPU.

How do you want

us to think about

logged in arpu how do you want us to think about that

I think

that's a good question.

Because we're all going to be doing

And

then

second, I

mean,

should we do

now assume

that

because we're all going to be doing that and then second i mean

if

you

go

logged

in

you

will

should we now assume that if you go logged in you will make

make

red

and

not

reddit not scrapable

scrapable.

and

I

guess

talk

about

the

implications

of

and i guess talk about the implications of that

that.

Okay, thanks for

the

questions.

okay thanks for the questions look

Look, the reason we're doing

the

test

is

to

learn the

answers to

through

these

the reason we're doing the test is to learn the answers to these questions

questions.

So we know

logged

in

users engage in the

my

much

more,

And we've mentioned this a couple of

so we know logged in users engage much more

times on

the

this

call.

80% of our

revenue

over 80% of our

revenue comes out of the

and we've mentioned this a couple times on this call eighty percent of our revenue

from

logged

in

users.

So growing

that

base

is

very,

over eighty percent of our revenue comes from logged in users so

very

important.

Making Reddit

logged

in

only

will assure

assuredly

growing that base is very very important making reddit logged in only will

grow

that

base.

But what the

conversion rate

is

over time is the

we

just

don't

know.

assuredly grow that base but what the conversion rate is over time we just don't know

That's why we have to do

the

that's why we have to do the work

work.

um and that's why we have

to test the

like

where's

the

right

spot

to

draw

these

boundaries?

and that's why we have to test like where's the right spot to draw these boundaries

Each of our peers has a lot of

had

of

success doing

this,

but

they all have to do

it in the same

slightly

different

each of our peers have had a lot of success doing this but they all do it in slightly different ways

ways.

and I'm

sure

we

will

find

the

way that

makes

the

most

sense for

Reddit.

and i'm sure we will find the way that makes the most sense for reddit

Will this

make

Reddit

harder to

will this make reddit harder to scrape

scrape?

For

sure.

That is one of the

reasons.

It's not

impossible, but

again,

for sure that is one of the reasons it's

all over

of

our peers are not a very important part of the

have

done

this for a

long

time for

this

not impossible but again all of our peers have done this for a long time for this reason

reason.

And Reddit with

its

extremely

valuable

corp

corpus,

this

and reddit with its extremely valuable corpus

change

is

really

important

to protect

access

to

that

data and

make

this change is really important to protect

access to that data and make it

it

and

make

it

intentional.

So, like I

said,

we're going to have to do

this.

but

and make it intentional so like i said we're going to do this

the effect is going to be a good

on

the

ecosystem will have to

be

test that's why we're

doing

the

but the effects on the ecosystem we'll have to test that's why we're doing the test

test.

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Hey

guys,

thanks for the

question.

Sorry, that's a hard

harp on

this

hey guys thanks for the question sorry

overly,

but

just

to

sorry not to harp on this overly but just to understand

understand

uh

as

you talk about

test

this

on

the

log

out

users

is

so

the

expectation of

as you test this on the logged out users is

that

over

time

that

gets to

zero

or

close

to

so the expectation that over time that gets

zero.

I know a lot of it

comes

from

the

testing and what

w

happens.

to zero or close to zero i i know a lot of it comes from the testing and what what happens

but is that

But is that

the

expectation you

we

get

some

percent

that

will

convert, you

know

an expectation you got some percent that will convert to

to

willing

to

log

in and

some

that

the

fall

off.

And then

on

willing to log in and some that fall off and then on the

the

Google

and

AI.

O

overviews

and

sending traffic.

I think that's a good

you

know, one of the things that I'm going to do

of

the

things we

saw yesterday was a lot of

google and ai reviews and sending traffic out

is

pressure

on

Google's

ad

you know one of the things we saw yesterday is you know pressure

revenue

driven

by

this,

right? And

so

you know they're

seeing

an

impact on

from

on google's ad revenue driven by this right and so

this as

well. And they

talked

about

starting

to

monetize

more

putting

more

ads

you know they're they're seeing an impact from this as well and they talked about starting to monetize

and

ultimately

unless

the

entire sort

of

putting more ads and ultimately unless the entire sort of

uh quid

throw

quote

for

for

Google's ad

product

quid pro quo for google's ad product changes

changes.

sending traffic out of the

to

web

is

an

important

part of the

how

they

monetize

sending traffic out to the web is an important part of how they monetize too

too.

Do do

you is there

a

scenario down

the

line

where

you

do do you is there a scenario down the line where where you see

see, you

that sort of

coming

back the

pendulum

swinging

back a little

bit and

that

can

be

a

benefit for

that sort of coming back the pendulum swinging back a little bit and that can be a benefit

you

guys. Thank

for you guys thank you

you.

Okay, so

question

one, logged

out

okay so question one logged out users

users.

Does it go to

zero

or

close to the

zero?

But I can't tell

you.

Um I think

does it go to zero or close to zero look i can't tell you

we'll

always have to do

some of

amount.

Maybe

this

is a little bit more than

of

the

second

answer.

I think we'll always have

some

amount

of

i think we'll always have some amount maybe this is a little bit of a second answer i think we'll always have

traffic

from

either

search

referrals, I

mean

sharing

we'd

love

to

really

grow

amount of traffic from either search referrals

that.

So that's kind of by

its

nature

logged

out

at

first.

i mean sharing we'd love to really grow that so that's kind of by its nature logged out at first

Front page traffic.

right?

People

curious

about

Reddit.

So we'll always have

that completely

component.

front page traffic right people curious about reddit so we'll always have that component

But I

but i think

think

when

we look at the computer, we're going

components, we can do

the

at

business over the

we have to do

long

when we look at the business over the long term

term,

or

even

shorter,

we

would

expect

app

or even shorter we would expect app

and

logged

in

and

total

So, I think that's a good

to provide lot

probably

more or

less

and logged in and total dao to probably more or less converge

converge.

You know, plus or

you know plus or minus

minus

some

small

percent.

because that's just where the

core of

our product

is and so

that's

where

we're

going

to

be

driving

some small percent because that's just where the core of our product is and so that's where we're going to be driving people

people.

So, we're going to have a lot of things that are going to be a very important thing for AI.

overviews and traffic,

for ai overviews and traffic look

look, we don't have to do

consider

control

Google. We

only

control

Reddit they've

made so

many

changes.

and I

we don't control google we only control reddit they've made so many changes

expect

there's

more to be

come.

and i expect there's more to come

You know, like I said, AI

overviews or AI.

mode.

it's

just

not a

traffic

you know like like i said ai overviews or ai mode

driver.

it's just not a traffic driver so

So

you know we're

you know we're not

not

We're

not

counting

on

that.

We make no

assumption

about

where

that

goes or

doesn't

go in

the

we're not counting on that we make no assumption about where that goes or doesn't go in the future

future.

What's most

important

is making sure that you're going to be able to do

that

Reddit

what's most important is making sure that reddit is

is

a

direct

sticky

daily

destination.

and that's all

the

work that we're

we've

mentioned

on

this

a direct sticky daily destination and that's all the work that we've mentioned on this call

call.

That's what we can

control.

Our work there is

working so that we can work on the same

so

far.

and so I feel that we can do

very

good about

it.

that's what we can control our work there is working so far and so i feel very good about it

I think that's a good idea.

and

And you know, we'll

let the rest of the

ecosystem you know

evolve at the

it

as

know we'll let the rest of the ecosystem you know evolve as it will

will.

Your last

question

is for

from

the

a

line

of

Doug

and

from

J.P.

your last question is from the line of doug anmuth from jpmorgan

Your line

is

now

open.

Please go

your line is now open please go ahead

ahead.

Thanks for

taking a look at the next

for

taking

question.

Just curious

if there's anything to do with

the

call

out

this is for doug thanks for taking the question just

on

3Q

revenue

growth.

just given

the

curious if there's anything to call out on 3q revenue growth

upside just a little

bit

less

than

what

we've

seen

from

you

guys and

in

prior

quarters.

just given the upside was a little bit less than what we've seen from you guys in prior quarters

whether that's a

function

of

users

and

inventory

or

anything

else to

call

out

whether that's a function of users and inventory or anything else to call out there

there.

thanks

Thanks.

Look, I think it's a very good

the

uh I think

third question is that I'm going to use the

quarter is a little bit more than a

was good

look think the third quarter was

a

good

one.

a good one

Uh we

grew through

53%.

but not a lot

of

companies

growing in

at

fifty-three

three

percent. You know,

grew fifty three percent but not a lot of companies growing at fifty three percent

we're we

still

enter the

quarter with about

50% of

our

business

booked and so

we still enter the quarter with about fifty percent of our business booked

we're

making

estimates

about

what

we're going to

get and

not

get

in

the

quarter.

and so we're making estimates about what we're going to get and not get in the quarter

I think as Jennifer is going to be a very

said in the middle of the year, we

quarter

best of

bitterness

demand

was

very,

strong. I

think

there

are a couple

of unique things that are going to be a very important

i think as jen said in the quarter the demand was very very strong

dynamics

within

the

third

quarter.

particularly since

September is

i think there are a couple of unique dynamics within the third quarter

very

strong.

Demand is very

concentrated in the third

quarter of

to

particularly september is very strong the demand is very concentrated in the third quarter september

September.

And then if you double-click

on

September, there

were

some

days

that

we

had

that

were

particularly

strong.

So there

and then if you double click on september there were some days that we had that were particularly strong

was you

some

bookings that we

weren't able to

deliver

on

a couple of

days.

but but

so there was some bookings that we weren't able to deliver

overall,

no, it's a good

quarter for

us.

We're

happy with

at the

on a couple of days but overall no it's a good quarter for us

momentum was

strong and

it's

Gen

Jen

said

from day to

one

day

ninety

the

demand

was very

we're happy with it the momentum was strong and as jen said from day one to day ninety the demand was very

strong in

the the

strong in the quarter

quarter.

There's a lot of

no further

questions at the

this

there are no further questions at this time

this

time.

I would now like to ask you to ask

turn the

call

back to next

the

Steve

i would now like to turn the call back to steve hoffman

Huffman, founder of the United

and

CEO

for

closing

founder and ceo for closing remarks

remarks.

Okay.

Thanks,

everybody. As

always, we appreciate

your

time and

attention,

and

okay thanks everybody as always we appreciate your time attention and questions

questions. Until next

time.

until next time bye

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