Has anyone had good success with Quora or Reddit Ads? What sort of results did you see?

The result there was not as god as expected. Being useful there, on the other hand, can be profitable.

Hi Siepen, personally we didn't have much success as expected with the ads. But maybe we have done something incorrect. In mine personal experience I visit Quora for the knowledge of answer and when I see ads I just skip them. If you decide to try to run a campaign please share the results back.

I would suggest answering questions related to your product. This can be of huge benefit. I read Quora a lot and have used some services promoted indirectly via answers. For example, I joined an online platform and purchased few mutual funds through their services. I chose them because their CEO is active in Quora answering questions related to Mutual funds and I felt confident reading all his answers. His answers were not directly promoting his service. He carefully read the question and answered everything to the point, leaving behind a two sentence description about his company at the bottom of each answer. The answers were nothing like a promotion of the services. They were all genuine answers. Try similar approach and I am confident that you will find some customers through Quora. I am not a fan of Quora ads. I don't think I have opened any of their ads.

Think it entirely depends on your market/audience. What are you selling?

The results are not as expected ... If you want to profit from ads, you have to work for me more than one site and you even get a satisfactory profit ... But on the whole it is better than others ... My advice is that if you will work on your own then I do not advise you to do so .... Make some referrals at any site you work with ... This will increase your rate of profit .... I wish you good luck

I worked with Reddit Ads. Decent results, much cheaper than Facebook and a bit slower delivery. I worked in a very niche market and subreddit targeting is a huge help. Overall, I would recommend testing it.

Reddit ads are probably biggest bang for buck if you target a specific sub-reddit. Best advice to is be genuine and write it from your personal account as a person, and not as a company. https://neilpatel.com/blog/start...

I haven't tested specifically with Quora and Reddit but my advertising strategy with all these social networks is the following: place all their pixels into your website, target a relevant audience with Facebook or Google, then re-target them on Quora, Snap or Twitter

Dan, 3 months ago, I launched several ad campaigns on Quora for SaaS product promotion. I noticed the CPC was as low as $0.20 and traffic quality was worse. Most of the Quora users are interested in FREE offerings --- this is what I noticed (may be I am wrong). However, I would say if you just want traffic at low CPC, go for Quora but if you want quality leads then go for Google ads or Facebook ads. Speaking of Reddit, there are RESTRICTIONS. If your employees access your Reddit account from different locations (countries/cities) then your account will get banned. You can not run ads smoothly. So be careful.

I had the pleasure of watching Sam Parr (co-founder of The Hustle) give a presentation on growth, and he said that Quora worked insanely well for them. We tried it out on our own but didn't see great results :( but there's definitely a chance we didn't have it set up the best way. I'm currently pushing my team to test out Reddit advertising. There's mixed feelings about it, but I believe the ability to hyper-target users based on niche subreddits could be very valuable. Will report back!

I tried Reddit ads. I didn’t expected anything crazy happening but it did get me 19k impressions 52 clicks 11 free tier signups in $5😬. I guess it mostly depends on what are you selling to them.

I've found that with Reddit or Quora the users seem to be pretty anti-marketing. With that being said they can work and I've found success by driving more content based ads that help bridge the gap from ad to opt-in/sales page etc. If you have more specific questions feel free to ask.

We used Quora and Reddit for our 2019 SaaS Conference (https://appealie.com/saas-confer...) and overall I would say they are *worthwhile* channels. Pros: - targeting (especially on Quora), - good click through rates (so you get enough click volume for time setting up campaigns) - reasonable CPC on each Cons: - not enough impression volume on Reddit, average targeting (ended up having to use broader subreddits like r/entrepreneur than we would have liked to get volume) - yet another channel to manage, each with own requirements (slightly different pixel dimensions for ads, etc)

I recently ran Reddit ads for a client in the technological research industry. There's not a lot of information out there regarding this platform but I managed to scrape up a general idea of how the campaign would go: CPC - $0.45 CTR - 0.22% We ran the ads for close to a month, and here were the final results: SPEND - $178.94 IMPRESSIONS - 202,869 CLICKS - 505 CTR - 0.22% CPC - $0.35 CONVERSIONS - 12 COST PER CONVERSION - $14.91 The results were acceptable, and relatively on par with my predictions. Right now its best used as an experimental niche channel in your media mix.

I read an article on IndieHackers recently that mentioned for newsletter promotion, it worked super well! Here's my source: https://www.indiehackers.com/pro... I have yet to give them a try, but I'll be making an effort soon.

I've never had even the slightest result with reddit ads. I've probably spend about $2800 over the course of a few months and absolutely no results. Their reporting was atrocious too. Granted, that was about 2 years ago so it might be changed by now but be wary.

Hi Dan, You can try your promoted ads text in the form of asking questions by referring to the benefit you offer. I mean like "Still wasting bunch of time..?" If you consider ads in Reddit, just make sure that whether you are able to target the certain subreddits you'd like to target. Cuz in my experience some subreddits are available to larger advertisers and you cannot target them. Cheers!