About r/marketing
In its own words:
For marketing communications + advertising industry professionals to discuss and ask questions related to marketing strategy, media planning, digital, social, search, campaigns, data science, email, user experience, content, copywriting, segmentation, attribution, data visualization, testing, optimization, and martech. We are a support network for people working at brands, businesses, agencies, vendors, and academia.
Community guide
r/marketing (#555, about 2.0 million) — For marketing communications + advertising industry professionals to discuss and ask questions related to marketing strategy, media planning, digital, social, search, campaigns, data science, email, user experience, content, copywriting, segmentation, attribution, data… Collected rules highlight Advertising & Self-Promotion; Spam; Interviews & Resume Feedback, among 9 listed. Activity mix in sample: text:70, image:4. Mo.
What belongs here
This room is built for questions and answers, aligned with: For marketing communications + advertising industry professionals to discuss and ask questions related to marketing strategy, media planning, digital, social, search, campaigns, data science, email, user experience, cont. Rule themes on file include: Advertising & Self-Promotion; Spam; Interviews & Resume Feedback; Homework Help & Surveys. Prefer clear titles and enough context for strangers to answer; jokes-first top replies usually miss the point when rules emphasize genuine help.
Before you post
Common flairs in the sample: Question, Discussion, Support, News. Recent sample composition: text:70, image:4. Mo. Format-sensitive rules to read first: Advertising & Self-Promotion. Treat subscriber and posts-per-day figures as directory snapshots, not live Reddit counters.
How it differs
Compared with broader chat rooms, this community’s collected rules push toward answerable questions and away from advice-bans or joke-first threads when those appear on file. Always re-check live rules before posting.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Mar 23, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,069 subscribers (+0.05%). It sits just behind r/mealtimevideos (#554) and ahead of r/crochet (#556) in our ranking.
What sets r/marketing apart
r/marketing is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 95% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 35% across the Top 100. r/marketing is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 4.3 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.3. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 0.56% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 85% of the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/marketing climbed from 1,970,715 to 1,981,738 subscribers (+11K, +0.56%). That is about 251 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/marketing talks about
Looking at the titles of 74 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “job”, “worth”, “looking”, “brands” and “google”. Other frequent themes are growth, feel, career, content, built and free. By format, 95% are text posts and 5% are images.
Popular post flairs: Question (37), Discussion (27), Support (7), News (3).
Activity and best time to post
r/marketing gets about 8.8 new posts a day. The public archive holds 280,094 posts and 1,204,448 comments in total, about 4.3 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Thursday (15 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (2). Posting peaks around 17:00 UTC and is lowest around 02:00 UTC.
Rules of r/marketing
The moderators of r/marketing list 9 rules. In short:
- Advertising & Self-Promotion
- Spam
- Interviews & Resume Feedback
- Homework Help & Surveys
- URL Shorteners
- Website/Product Reviews
- Low quality
- Non-specific resource request
- AI generated content
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/marketing and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/marketing have?
r/marketing has 1,981,738 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #555 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 11,023 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/marketing created?
r/marketing was created on Mar 23, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years.
Is r/marketing still active?
Yes. r/marketing gets about 8.8 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 280,094 posts and 1,204,448 comments. In a sample of 74 recent posts we counted 71 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/marketing?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Thursday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 17:00 UTC, with the fewest around 02:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/marketing?
The community describes itself as: “For marketing communications + advertising industry professionals to discuss and ask questions related to marketing strategy, media planning, digital, social, search, campaigns, data science, email, user experience, con…” Recent post titles often mention job, worth, looking, brands and google. Most posts are text posts (95%).
Is r/marketing SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/marketing as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/marketing?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/marketing accepts both text and link posts, with images and galleries enabled. It has 9 posted rules, starting with: “Advertising & Self-Promotion”; “Spam”; “Interviews & Resume Feedback”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/marketing?
Communities with similar topics include r/socialmedia (2.1M), r/datascience (2.8M), r/gamedev (2.1M), r/dataisbeautiful (21.9M) and r/CryptoTechnology (1.3M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/marketing.