r/advertising
Founded April 2008 · Public — anyone can post
THIS IS NOT A PLACE TO ADVERTISE. YOU WILL BE BANNED. r/Advertising: Is for ad creators, students, copywriters, and anyone else who is finely honing their reverse banner blindness for professional reasons.
Members
255,767
256K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
Comments per post
14.6
Growth · 7d
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Growth · 30d
+1.3%
+3.2K members · ≈33d
Published rules
7
3 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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Tracking since Aug 7 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What r/advertising's rules say about promotion
3 of 7 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
No advertisements or spam
rule 2 of 7
Posts will be removed, posters banned. If you would like to advertise visit - https://about.reddit.com/advertise
Removal reason shown to posters: Advertising/spam
Low quality
rule 3 of 7
We're trying to build something great here, help us do that. A post or comment in a poor attempt to shill or sell a product or service, is someone's homework, is looking for free marketing instead of paying for a professional, or is a few sentences with a link to their blog. Let's not forget, memes, rants without a source, screenshots, etc. will all be removed.
Removal reason shown to posters: Quality is lacking
Not advertising industry related
rule 7 of 7
This sub is for professionals to talk specifically about advertising, not for advertising product/services and not for topics unrelated to the advertising industry.
The other 4
- Be nice
- URL Shorteners
- Surveys and/or homework/assignment help
- Just graduated, looking for advice
Read from r/advertising’s published rules on May 24. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
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r/advertising — frequently asked
How many members does r/advertising have?
r/advertising has 255,767 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 9. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/advertising growing?
Over the last ≈33 days r/advertising changed by +1.3% — a gain of 3.2K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/advertising?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/advertising yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/advertising created?
r/advertising was founded in April 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/advertising?
r/advertising publishes 7 rules and 3 of them address promotion. The first, “No advertisements or spam”, says: Posts will be removed, posters banned. If you would like to advertise visit - https://about.reddit.com/advertise Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/advertising for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/advertising into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/advertising's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/advertising's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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