r/SocialMediaMarketing
Social Media Marketing
Founded January 2009 · Public — anyone can post
r/SocialMediaMarketing is a place for SMM professionals to share industry-relevant information, discuss best practices, and provide constructive critique.
Members
313,202
313K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
11.0
from the last 100 posts, spanning 9.0 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Published rules
4
3 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
Sep 13
sampled Sep 13
Distinct posters
90%
of the last 100 posts
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/SocialMediaMarketing
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.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Question | 39% | 32 |
| Discussion | 16% | 44 |
| Lessons / story | 13% | 160 |
| Rant | 11% | 66 |
| News / link | 9% | 186 |
| How-to | 6% | 104 |
| Promo | 6% | 10 |
| Tool comparison | 1% | 11 |
Based on 71 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 18
- Top 10% score
- 170
- Text posts
- 89%
- Got no replies
- 4%
- Busiest windows
- Tue 15:00 UTC, Thu 15:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion belongs in a dedicated thread. Promotion goes in Monthly Threads (weekly).
- No Deceptive Promotion or Manipulation: If your comment history shows you plugging the same link or service over and over again with no other discussion, safely assume your post or comment will be deleted.
- Please keep Job Opportunities and Service Advertisements in their Monthly Threads.: To maintain the organization and focus of our community discussions, we require that all job opportunities and advertisements for social media marketing services be posted exclusively in the respective weekly threads.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Offers specific, actionable advice
- — Shares first-hand experience and results
- — Addresses common pain points directly
- — Provides detailed explanations and frameworks
- — Compares tools with pros and cons (e.g., pricing)
What r/SocialMediaMarketing's rules say about promotion
3 of 4 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
No Deceptive Promotion or Manipulation
rule 2 of 4
We do not allow: - Coordinated or inauthentic activity intended to artificially boost a person, company, product, or service - Astroturfing, such as posing as a regular user to promote something for personal or financial gain If your comment history shows you plugging the same link or service over and over again with no other discussion, safely assume your post or comment will be deleted.
Removal reason shown to posters: Excessive Self Promotion
No Social Media Account Selling.
rule 3 of 4
This is r/socialmediamarketing, not r/socialmediamarketplace. Anyone selling social media accounts here will be permanently banned.
Removal reason shown to posters: Selling Social Media Account
Please keep Job Opportunities and Service Advertisements in their Monthly Threads.
rule 4 of 4
To maintain the organization and focus of our community discussions, we require that all job opportunities and advertisements for social media marketing services be posted exclusively in the respective weekly threads.
Removal reason shown to posters: Please keep Job Opportunities and Service Advertisements in their Weekly Threads.
The other 1
- Be Civil.
Read from r/SocialMediaMarketing’s published rules on Sep 13. 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/SocialMediaMarketing — frequently asked
How many members does r/SocialMediaMarketing have?
r/SocialMediaMarketing has 313,202 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 13. 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/SocialMediaMarketing growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/SocialMediaMarketing yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 3; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/SocialMediaMarketing?
Around 11.0 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 9.0 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/SocialMediaMarketing created?
r/SocialMediaMarketing was founded in January 2009 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.
Who posts in r/SocialMediaMarketing?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 90% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 13. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/SocialMediaMarketing?
r/SocialMediaMarketing publishes 4 rules and 3 of them address promotion. The first, “No Deceptive Promotion or Manipulation”, says: We do not allow: - Coordinated or inauthentic activity intended to artificially boost a person, company, product, or service - Astroturfing, such as posing as a regular user to promote something for personal or… 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/SocialMediaMarketing for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/SocialMediaMarketing 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/SocialMediaMarketing's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/SocialMediaMarketing'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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