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THIS IS NOT A PLACE TO ADVERTISE. YOU WILL BE BANNED. r/Advertising: Is for ad creators, students, copywriters, and anyone else who is finely honing their reverse banner blindness for professional reasons.

data updated 2026-07-26

251.5kmembers
18 yrscommunity age
10/10nichory signal

No self-promotion auto-detected from community rules — always read the full rules before posting. Rules explicitly prohibit self-promotion or advertising.

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Our read on r/advertising

r/advertising is the 10th largest of the 13 communities we track in Marketing & SEO, with 251.5k members. That is about 12% the size of the niche's biggest community, r/socialmedia. Across Nichory's full directory of 363 communities it ranks 328th by member count.

At around 18 years old it is a long-established community. Older subreddits usually have settled rules, active moderation and high trust — but also years of archived posts, so a question that has been asked before will be sent to the search bar. Bring a specific angle.

Its Nichory signal score is 10/10 — our blend of audience size and how fast the community has grown per year. Scores this high mean an active audience that is worth writing for properly.

Our rules analysis flags this community as prohibiting self-promotion. Posting a link to your own product here is the fastest way to get removed or banned. Treat it as a place to build a reputation by answering questions well — your profile does the selling for you.

Rules we found for r/advertising

Collected from the community's published rules page. Titles only — open the full rules for the detail, and note they can change at any time.

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