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April 13, 2026

AutoModerator setup guide for new mods (with an example config)

AutoModerator decides whether your subreddit feels like a community or a spam bucket. The day-one config we ship with branded subs, with working YAML.

April 13, 2026

The 2026 guide to running a branded subreddit

In 2024, Reddit signed a $60 million per year licensing deal with Google to train Gemini on Reddit conversations. That same year, brands started realizing what the deal meant. The conversations h

April 13, 2026

How to host an AMA on your own subreddit (not r/IAmA)

Most brands think of AMAs as something you apply for on r/IAmA, get approved (maybe), and hope the right audience shows up. That model is outdated. If you own a branded subreddit, the better play

April 13, 2026

Reddit Rule 5 explained: what brands can and can't do as moderators

Every sales conversation about branded subreddits eventually arrives at the same objection. Is having our own employees moderate our own subreddit against Reddit's rules? The short answer is no.

April 13, 2026

Should you own a branded subreddit? A qualification framework

Not every brand should own a subreddit. That is an unusual thing for a community marketing agency to say, but it is true, and the brands that ignore it pay for the lesson in public. Here is the f

April 13, 2026

The Slack back-office: how Mint Mobile orchestrates 108 employees in one subreddit

Most people think a branded subreddit needs a community manager. It does, but that is the front of the house. The back of the house is where the real work happens, and the operational model that

April 13, 2026

The semi-official subreddit model: how Mint Mobile, 1Password, and HubSpot actually run theirs

The best brand-owned subreddits do not feel like brand-owned subreddits. They feel like communities where the brand happens to show up as itself. Inside the agencies that work on Reddit, the patte

April 13, 2026

What the Duolingo mod revolt teaches every brand considering a subreddit

In January 2025, the moderators of r/duolingo, one of the largest edtech communities on Reddit, shut down the subreddit in protest. Every brand considering a subreddit should read that story befo

April 13, 2026

What is r/redditrequest and how does it work?

r/redditrequest is Reddit's official process for taking over a subreddit that has been abandoned by its moderator team. For brands, it is the quiet, underused path to claiming a subreddit matching