r/AskMarketing rules, stats, and what to post

What r/AskMarketing Is For

Reddit describes r/AskMarketing this way: Have a question about marketing? This is your place to ask.

For Rankhog planning, treat it as a place for marketing tactics, campaign work, growth experiments, and channel-specific questions. Use the source description and the visible rule list before deciding whether a startup post belongs there.

Rules That Matter Before Posting

The fetched old Reddit rules include "Marketing question", "Low quality", "Spam", "Surveys and/or homework/assignment help". The rule to read twice is "Spam". It is the clearest source-backed warning against turning the subreddit into a launch, link, or sales channel.

What To Post

A strong post gives the community something to answer, inspect, or learn from before it asks for attention. Bring the audience, stage, constraint, what you tried, and the exact question.

Good fits include:

• Posts that match the community context: Have a question about marketing? This is your place to ask.
• Specific questions or lessons about marketing tactics, campaign work, growth experiments, and channel-specific questions, with enough context for useful replies.
• Share a campaign postmortem with audience, channel, creative, budget, and result context.

What To Avoid

Do not use r/AskMarketing as a cold launch channel. The safest draft should still make sense if the company name, product URL, and call to action are removed.

Watch for:

• Anything that trips "Spam": Non-relevant, advertising, and/or astroturfing posts will result in ban. This is your only warning.
• Off-topic posts that do not fit the visible community context or marketing tactics, campaign work, growth experiments, and channel-specific questions.
• Low-context posts that fail "Marketing question": All posts should be related to marketing and should be a question. All other posts will be removed.

Rankhog Notes

Use this page as a pre-flight check. If the rule note and the community description do not support the post, choose another subreddit or turn the idea into a comment, lesson, or question first.