r/marketing

Marketing & Advertising

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: 1,979,173
Created: 2008
Posts a day: 2
Avg comments, top posts this week: 45

r/marketing is a Reddit community with 1,979,173 members, created in 2008. It averaged about 2 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts had a median score of 18 and an average of 45 comments each. Marketing, career and content are the words that show up most in recent titles. This month's top posts went up most often around 17:00 UTC, and most often on a Thursday.

Only approved members can post in r/marketing.

Data checked October 18, 2026 · Open on Reddit

What people ask

203Marketers over 45, what do you do?264 comments · October 3, 2026
370Why The Marketing Department Is About To Disappear253 comments · October 15, 2026
87Why is no one learning Adobe or Figma anymore?139 comments · September 30, 2026
111Are 6 rounds of interviews too much?136 comments · October 1, 2026
61Is it possible to be off social media in your personal life?118 comments · October 9, 2026
148Is this cycle going to be what the rest of my career looks like?98 comments · October 7, 2026

Common words in titles

marketing 8
career 4
content 3
creative 3
marketers 3
media 3
social 3
work 3
account 2
b2b 2
cmo 2
hard 2

Best time to post

17:00 UTC · 4 top posts
08:00 UTC · 3 top posts
03:00 UTC · 3 top posts
Thursday · 7 top posts
Wednesday · 5 top posts

These are counted from the timestamps of this month's 25 top posts. They show when popular posts went up and don't guarantee reach.

Rules

Advertising, Self-Promotion, & Spam (Permanent Ban)
AI Generated Content (Permanent Ban)
App Ideas & Feedback (Permanent Ban)
Research Surveys & Homework Help (Post Removal)
New To Marketing (Post Removal)
Job Hunting, Interview & Resume Feedback (Post Removal)
Low Quality (Post Removal & Possible Ban)
Non-Specific Resource Request (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)

How to post in r/marketing without breaking its rules

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Member growth

We started recording r/marketing member counts on October 18, 2026. Growth will show here once we have a few weeks of history.

Get this data from the API

Every number on this page comes from ChatterAPI's Reddit endpoints and is refreshed about once a week. You can pull the same data for any subreddit from your own code or AI agent.

curl "https://chatterapi.com/v1/reddit/subreddits/marketing" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CHATTERAPI_KEY"

{
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/marketing/",
    "name": "marketing",
    "nsfw": false,
    "title": "Marketing & Advertising",
    "createdAt": "2008-03-23T18:17:57.000Z",
    "description": "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.",
    "subscribers": 1979173
  },
  "credits": {
    "charged": 2
  }
}

Recorded response, October 18, 2026, trimmed.

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Questions about r/marketing

How many members does r/marketing have?

r/marketing had 1,979,173 members when we last checked on October 18, 2026.

How active is r/marketing?

Based on its newest posts, it got about 2 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts averaged 45 comments each.

When is the best time to post in r/marketing?

This month's top posts in r/marketing went up most often around 17:00 UTC, and most often on a Thursday. That's when popular posts were published, so use it as a starting point, not a rule.

Can I get r/marketing data through an API?

Yes. Call GET /v1/reddit/subreddits/marketing for members, rules and description, and GET /v1/reddit/subreddits/marketing/posts for its posts. Each call costs 2 credits, and new accounts get 100 free credits.