American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Reddit ( RED-it, stylized reddit) is a proprietary American social news website, news aggregator, forum and social media platform. Registered users (commonly referred to as "redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down ("upvoted" or "downvoted") by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "subreddits". Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Reddit administrators moderate the communities. Moderation is also conducted by subreddit-specific moderators, who are unpaid volunteers. It is operated by Reddit, Inc., based in San Francisco.
Reddit is one of the most-visited websites. Approximately 10% of the company's revenue comes from licensing deals with Google and OpenAI, expiring in 2027, to license data to train models for artificial intelligence. The company's remaining revenue comes from internet advertising; a small portion comes from products sold directly to users.
The public source identifies “Reddit” as american social news aggregation website and discussion portal. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Reddit, American and social.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1136. VIAF identifies the subject as 8152501146610682339. The Library of Congress control number is no2018049051. 2 of 7 selected statements include explicit references; 4 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2027.
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This entry incorporates text from “Reddit” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.