There’s no one term to describe this Online outfit. Content curator, aggregator, social news service…all 3 descriptions fit it well. Reddit, as many of you would know, never used to generate Content of its own. Instead, it would link to other Websites, images, etc. But things are changing.
Reddit has started venturing into making its own Content, too. It recently launched a podcast & newsletter. Today, it took another step into turning into a media company by launching a video division. Reddit’s mission was to connect people across the world through authentic conversations, collaboration, and community — video was an amazing storytelling medium and there’s no better wellspring of original stories than Reddit, co-founder Alexis Ohanian told The Verge.
With Video Launch, Reddit Is Officially a Media Company – Wired
http://news.google.com May 6, 2015
Ten years and 170 million users later, Reddit is finally developing into a full-fledged media company, running not only its own news site, but its own newsletter, podcast, and now …
Reddit creates a team devoted to original videos – Engadget
http://news.google.com May 6, 2015
Reddit is about to host a lot more than links and comments. The social site is launching a dedicated team that will produce original video content. It’ll initially focus on bringing the …
Reddit is going to start creating original videos – Business Insider
http://news.google.com May 6, 2015
Reddit is going to start creating original videos. Lucy England. May 6, 2015, 12:50 PM; 199. facebook · linkedin · twitter; email; print. Alexis OhanianRed …
Reddit launches a video division to create original content – The Verge
May 6, 2015
The social news service Reddit has grown to a truly massive size, garnering 170 million monthly visitors and 6.7 billion pages view this January, while maintaining a fairly bare-bones service. It helps elevate obscure material to front page news, but hosts virtually no content of its own…
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