r/advertising
ActiveTHIS 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.
Members
200,471
as of February 2025
Last post
today
September 28, 2026
Posts (30 days)
100+
Created
2008
April 30, 2008
Total posts
115.5K
archived
Total comments
460.0K
archived
Is r/advertising dead? Active community.
r/advertising is posting regularly — the latest post was today. Active subreddits can't be requested through r/redditrequest.
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How many members does r/advertising have?
r/advertising had 200,471 members as of February 2025, the most recent archive crawl of its subscriber count.
Is r/advertising dead?
No. r/advertising is active — the most recent post was today, with 100+ posts in the last 30 days.
When was r/advertising created?
r/advertising was created on April 30, 2008.
Can I take over r/advertising?
Probably not. r/advertising is still in active use, and Reddit only hands over communities whose human moderators have all gone inactive on Reddit for 60+ days. If you want a community in this niche, look for abandoned subreddits on the same topic instead — DeadSubs finds them automatically.
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