Five ways to save Condé Nast's Reddit

Take reddit non-profit and have pledge drives a la wikipedia.<p>Reddit is useful enough to be considered a common good/ public property.

I think reddit users would be hesitant to allow their beloved website to start selling data about them. One of the things that drives reddit is the anonymity, why would they want to give that up?<p>Also, I don't think the author understands the extent to which reddit ads are targeted. Most redittors I know have it whitelisted on adblock and actively click ads because they find them intriguing.

Good article, short and to the point. I especially find the last one intriguing, rightfully pointing out that Reddit may be one of the few sites to store things that a user <i>doesn't</i> like, and it may be quite the competitive advantage opposed to other social sites that are trying targeted ads.

These are just five ideas that Reddit could start implementing to help towards generating more revenue. While this article is geared towards Condé, any site or web app owner could implement them. None of them are very painful to implement and could easily begin to payoff.

I read somewhere that sites like Gawker look to Reddit for 'cool' story-leads. I amy be over-reaching but Reddit can do syndication dwals/partnerships with Media compnaies for Daily 'Best of Reddit' placements.<p>Also, what happened to Reddit TV?