Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users (www.theverge.com)

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Reddit just turned a profit for the first time. As part of its third quarter earnings results released on Tuesday, the company reported a profit of $29.9 million, along with $348.4 million in revenue — a 68 percent increase year over year.

The company hasn’t been profitable at any point in its nearly 20-year history. Since going public, Reddit lost $575 million during its first quarter on the market, but it decreased that loss to $10 million last quarter and is now finally in the black.

Reddit’s advertising revenue grew to $315.1 million, while “other” revenue reached $33.2 million on account of “data licensing agreements signed earlier this year.” Both Google and OpenAI have cut deals with Reddit to train their AI models on its posts.

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[-] Tom742@hexbear.net 24 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 43 minutes ago)

the company reported a profit of $29.9 million

while “other” revenue reached $33.2 million on account of “data licensing agreements signed earlier this year.

Only profitable by exploiting "their" content to LLM farms

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 hours ago

So they sold their data for a one off payment and stuffed the platform with so many bots and astroturf accounts that it is effectively poisoned against being a reliable source for future AI data licensing.

Yeah they're so fucking cooked hahahahaha

[-] Tom742@hexbear.net 2 points 41 minutes ago

This is also "profitable" with some big air quotes, they still have to make back all of that money they lost.

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