A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/marketing: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
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This is a community for marketing communications and advertising industry professionals. The description covers strategy, media planning, digital, social, search, campaigns, data science, email, user experience, content, copywriting, segmentation, attribution, data visualization, testing, optimization, and martech. The people posting here work at brands, businesses, agencies, vendors, and academia, and the community describes itself as a support network for them. It is a place to discuss real marketing work and ask questions about the industry, not a place to promote things or learn the basics.
The big one is “Advertising, Self-Promotion, & Spam”, which carries a permanent ban and a stated zero tolerance policy. “AI Generated Content” is also a permanent ban, so anything you paste from a chatbot is off the table. “App Ideas & Feedback” bans would you pay for this posts, and “Website/Product Reviews” removes requests to review your site or product. “Low Quality” removes shilling, homework, repeated questions, and short posts that are just a link to a blog. “Non-Specific Resource Request” removes vague teach me marketing posts, so your question has to be specific. “New To Marketing” sends beginner questions to r/AskMarketing. On the practical side, “Posting And Commenting Is Restricted To Accounts Over 30 Days Old With 300+ Combined Karma Points” means a fresh account cannot post at all, “URL Shorteners” gets links removed, and “Posts Must Use A Descriptive Title” means your title has to actually explain the post.
A good post here is a specific question or a real discussion topic from your actual marketing work. Write a descriptive title that tells people exactly what the post is about, because vague titles get removed. Ask about a concrete situation, like a segmentation decision, an attribution problem, a testing plan, or a campaign question, and share enough context that professionals can give a real answer. Write every word yourself, keep it substantive rather than a few sentences with a link, and never ask people to review your product or tell you if they would pay for it. If your question is beginner level, take it to r/AskMarketing instead.
Do not advertise, self-promote, or spam, because that is a permanent ban with zero tolerance. Do not paste AI generated content, also a permanent ban. Do not ask would you pay for this app or feature, do not post surveys or homework, and do not ask for website or product reviews, which risks a ban too. Do not ask for job hunting, interview, or resume help. Do not use URL shorteners, do not post politics, do not be rude or abusive, and do not post low quality material like memes, unsourced rants, screenshots, or a few sentences pointing at your blog. Make sure your account is over 30 days old with 300 or more combined karma before you post, or it gets removed automatically.
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No. The rules state a zero tolerance policy to advertising, self-promotion, and spam, and the penalty is a permanent ban. This is a community where you participate as a professional, not as a promoter.
Yes, but only if you write it yourself. The AI generated content rule bans copy and pasted AI text with a permanent ban, so anything you post has to be your own human writing.
The rules require an account over 30 days old with 300 or more combined karma points. Posts and comments from accounts below that threshold are removed automatically.
No. The app ideas and feedback rule permanently bans any sort of would you pay for this app, feature, or service post, and the website and product reviews rule removes feedback requests.
No. The new to marketing rule sends beginner questions to r/AskMarketing. Here you should ask specific questions tied to real work you are doing.
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