r/marketing

Updated Aug 28

For marketing communications + advertising industry professionals to discuss and ask questions related to marketing strategy, media planning, digital, social, search, campaigns, data science, email, user experience, content, copywriting, segmentation, attribution, data visualization, testing, optimization, and martech. We are a support network for people working at brands, businesses, agencies, vendors, and academia.

Members

1,965,224

2M

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

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Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

+0.3%

+6.8K members · ≈25d

Published rules

14

5 mention promotion — quoted below

Last post

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no sample yet

Distinct posters

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no sample yet

Tracking since Aug 3 · 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 works in r/marketing

Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.

FormatShare of postsAvg score
Discussion48%370
Question38%197
Lessons / story6%255
Show & tell3%1,305
Rant2%110
News / link2%37
Promo2%18

Based on 63 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.

Median score
81
Top 10% score
866
Text posts
68%
Got no replies
0%
Busiest windows
Sun 17:00 UTC, Mon 05:00 UTC

Posting rules, in plain words

Self-promotion is banned. Promotion goes in New Job Listings (Weekly). Minimum 300 karma. Account must be 30 days old.

  • Advertising, Self-Promotion, & Spam (Permanent Ban): If you want to advertise in this community, have a look at reddit.com/advertising. We have a zero tolerance policy to Advertising, Self-Promotion, & Spam.
  • AI Generated Content (Permanent Ban): This is a subreddit for humans, not bots, so please don't copy and paste AI generated content. We have a zero tolerance policy to AI generated content.
  • Low Quality (Post Removal & Possible Ban): 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 asking a question which has already been answered many times, 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.
  • Posts Must Use A Descriptive Title (Post Removal): Help your fellow Redditors understand what your post is about.

Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.

What a good comment looks like here

  • — Directly answers the question or addresses the post's premise.
  • — Provides specific examples or personal anecdotes.
  • — Offers actionable advice or alternative perspectives.
  • — Demonstrates deep industry knowledge or experience.
  • — Engages in thoughtful debate or expands on a point.
  • — Uses humor or relatable observations.

What r/marketing's rules say about promotion

5 of 14 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.

  1. Advertising, Self-Promotion, & Spam (Permanent Ban)

    rule 1 of 14

    If you want to advertise in this community, have a look at reddit.com/advertising. We have a zero tolerance policy to Advertising, Self-Promotion, & Spam.

    Removal reason shown to posters: Advertising & Spam

  2. New To Marketing (Post Removal)

    rule 5 of 14

    r/Marketing is for marketing professionals to discuss and ask questions related to the marketing industry. Please ask beginner questions in r/AskMarketing,

    Removal reason shown to posters: Beginner Question

  3. Job Hunting, Interview & Resume Feedback (Post Removal)

    rule 6 of 14

    We know it can be difficult to find a marketing job, but please don't ask us to help you find a job.

    Removal reason shown to posters: Job Hunting, Interview & Resume Feedback

  4. Low Quality (Post Removal & Possible Ban)

    rule 7 of 14

    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 asking a question which has already been answered many times, 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: Low Quality

  5. Non-Specific Resource Request (Post Removal)

    rule 8 of 14

    E.G. "I'm thinking about marketing, teach me." Be respectful of the community by searching the posts and asking specific questions.

    Removal reason shown to posters: Non-specific resource request

The other 9

  • AI Generated Content (Permanent Ban)
  • App Ideas & Feedback (Permanent Ban)
  • Research Surveys & Homework Help (Post Removal)
  • Website/Product Reviews (Post Removal & Possible Ban)
  • URL Shorteners (Post Removal & Possible Ban)
  • Abuse/Rudeness (Post Removal & Possible Ban)
  • Posts Must Use A Descriptive Title (Post Removal)
  • Posting And Commenting Is Restricted To Accounts Over 30 Days Old With 300+ Combined Karma Points
  • No Politics (Post Removal & Possible Ban)

Read from r/marketing’s published rules on Sep 8. 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/marketing — frequently asked

How many members does r/marketing have?

r/marketing has 1,965,224 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 28. 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/marketing growing?

Over the last ≈25 days r/marketing changed by +0.3% — a gain of 6.8K 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/marketing?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/marketing 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.

Can I promote my product in r/marketing?

r/marketing publishes 14 rules and 5 of them address promotion. The first, “Advertising, Self-Promotion, & Spam (Permanent Ban)”, says: If you want to advertise in this community, have a look at reddit.com/advertising. We have a zero tolerance policy to Advertising, Self-Promotion, & Spam. 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/marketing for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/marketing 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/marketing's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/marketing'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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