Thursday, December 31, 2015

Reddit in 2015

It's the last day of the year 2015, and it's been a heck of a year for Reddit, Inc. We're once again wrapping up the year, mourning over our lack of hoverboards, whilst simultaneously thanking our lucky stars we didn't end up actually dressing like this.

In 2015, we saw:

Reddit

  • 82.54 billion pageviews
  • 73.15 million submissions
  • 725.85 million comments:
    • Made by 8.7 million total authors
    • Containing 19.36 billion words
  • 6.89 billion upvotes
  • 88,700 active subreddits 1
  • 73 gildings on the top gilded post
  • 100 gildings on the top gilded comment 2
  • 327,800 total months of gold gifted
    • Given by 97,500 redditors
  • 285,375 RedditGifts exchange signups
  • 1 million button pressers
  • 1 pressiah
  • 6,300 Reddit Live threads created
  • 16,000 Reddit Live unique contributors
  • 1.3 million Reddit Live updates posted
  • 24.9 million Reddit Live pageviews

Philanthropy on Reddit

1 "Active" is determined by having 5 or more posts and comments at least one week in 2015
2 This is the top gilded comment in a public subreddit, actual top gilded comment is in a gold-only private subreddit

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