r/AskMarketing: rules, karma requirements and posting culture

Who posts here

Much of the feed is people at the start: students unsure what to do with a marketing degree, small business owners whose boosted posts got likes and no customers, career changers. They get patient, step by step answers. Working marketers also ask about attribution, agency operations and AI search, and those threads assume the vocabulary. A very basic question is answered, not mocked, though homework and assignment questions are banned outright.

• Marketing students and new graduates worried about the job market and what to learn first.
• Small business owners and solo founders asking how to get their first customers.
• Junior and mid-level marketers with a practical problem, such as tracking influencer sales or building a content plan.
• Agency owners and freelancers asking how others find clients and price work.
• Experienced marketers and consultants who mostly answer.

Karma and account requirements

What it takes to get a post through in r/AskMarketing.

What you can post

What happens to a new post

Where the most recent posts ended up. Sample size: 400.

• Stayed up64%
• Removed by Reddit's filters32%
• Removed by moderators3%
• Deleted by the author2%

Reddit counts a removal by the subreddit's own AutoModerator rules as a moderator removal, so that share is not all human. Held by AutoModerator means the post is waiting in the mod queue.

What happened when we posted here

We have posted here ourselves. This is how our own posts and comments fared.

Stayed up

100%

Removed by Reddit's filters

0%

Removed by moderators

0%

Period

October 2025 to July 2026

The rules, in the mods' words

1. 1

   Marketing question

   All posts should be related to marketing and should be a question. All other posts will be removed.

2. 2

   Low quality

   A question in a poor attempt to shill or sell a product or service, is someone's homework, surveys, and/or is looking for free marketing instead of paying for a professional.

3. 3

   Spam

   Non-relevant, advertising, and/or astroturfing posts will result in ban. This is your only warning.

4. 4

   Surveys and/or homework/assignment help

   Don't post them.

These are the rules as archived in January 2025. Rules change. Check the sidebar before you post.

The culture

r/AskMarketing is a spin-off of the main marketing subreddit with about 173,000 members and roughly 40 posts a day. The format is fixed: a text post, phrased as a question. Posts run about 100 words and typically get four comments, though the popular ones draw 50 or more.

Two subjects fill the feed. One is careers: breaking in, getting past entry level, whether a course is worth the money, what a fair rate is. The other is small business marketing from people who are not marketers, asking why their followers do not turn into bookings or where to start with no budget. Under both runs a steady worry about AI: whether it is replacing junior work, whether SEO still matters, how to show up in AI answers.

The answers are the best thing about it. Comments are long for Reddit, about 38 words at the median, and many are a worked plan: which campaign type, what to check first, what to stop doing. The weak spot is the questions. A share of them are thin covers for a product, a newsletter instalment or a request for testers, and regulars have learned to spot the pattern.

What lands

• A career question with honest detail: years of experience, what keeps going wrong, the city, the kind of role.
• A small business problem with numbers, like plenty of video plays and no bookings, which lets people diagnose the actual step that is failing.
• An open question that invites experienced people to share one thing, such as the tactic that works better than it should or the task they stopped doing.
• A question about the profession's future, especially how juniors will learn if AI does the entry-level work.
• A plain tool request with clear requirements, like a simple scheduler for a few named platforms.

What gets removed or ignored

• Product pitches framed as questions, such as asking for a landing page roast for a tool you built.
• Offers disguised as help: featuring people's projects, recruiting testing partners, or a lesson from years of teaching that leads to a course.
• Surveys, market research and homework questions, which the rules ban by name.
• Posts that are not questions or are not in English.
• Nearly a third of posts were removed by Reddit's own filters before any moderator acted. Our data does not show why. New accounts and repeated wording are the usual triggers.

The unwritten rules

• Adding "not promotion" to a title does not help. If the post exists to validate or seed your product, people read it as promotion anyway.
• Give context. Business type, budget, what you have tried and what the numbers were. The detailed answers go to the detailed questions.
• No comment in our sample of more than 200 contained a link. Advice here is written out, not linked to. A link in a comment will stand out.
• Offering to continue in direct messages happens, but a first comment that only says to message you reads as fishing for clients.
• Asking for free marketing work in place of hiring someone is named in the rules as low quality. Ask how to do it, not for someone to do it.

Self-promotion

The rules are short and hard. A question that is a poor attempt to shill or sell is classed as low quality, and advertising or astroturfing means a ban with no further warning. In practice the moderators remove only about 3% of posts by hand, and some soft promotion gets through: a founder asking for people to try a tool, a numbered series on a pet topic. Those posts rarely get much back. The way professionals benefit here is by answering. A specific, useful reply under someone's real question is the only form of visibility the room rewards, and it works without a link.

How people write here

Typical post length

96 words

Typical title length

9 words

Titles phrased as a question

53%

Typical comment length

38 words

Comments that include a link

0%

Posts that carry a flair

100%

The regulars

The accounts that showed up most in our sample. Worth reading before you post: they set the tone, and they are usually the first to reply.

Top keywords

The words and phrases that show up far more often here than in other communities, from recent posts in r/AskMarketing.

• marketing 172 posts
• media 62 posts
• social media 54 posts
• digital marketing 35 posts
• ads 42 posts
• content 47 posts
• marketers 22 posts
• agency 34 posts
• strategy 32 posts
• experience 60 posts
• clients 33 posts
• media marketing 14 posts
• meta 23 posts
• agencies 23 posts
• brand 32 posts
• business 49 posts
• instagram 22 posts
• advertising 17 posts
• market 33 posts
• company 45 posts
• career 27 posts
• client 28 posts
• campaigns 18 posts
• job 42 posts
• meta ads 13 posts
• sales 29 posts
• seo 24 posts
• internship 14 posts
• paid 29 posts
• team 33 posts
• currently 39 posts
• google 30 posts
• campaign 17 posts
• content creation 10 posts
• roles 19 posts
• companies 24 posts
• acquisition 12 posts
• tiktok 14 posts
• b2b 17 posts
• management 23 posts

Posts that did well

• What are the Fastest and Best Tactics to Increase Brand Awareness?57 upvotes · 62 comments · Question
• Marketer with 4+ years of experience, unable to find a job that lasts more than 1 year. How do you get away from this cycle?51 upvotes · 60 comments · Question
• I have been applying to jobs in NYC + Brooklyn for months and can't find anything... I'm so scared that I might have to leave the city.49 upvotes · 27 comments · Support
• How are marketing agencies getting clients?46 upvotes · 127 comments · Question
• Why aren't you all hiring entry level anymore?44 upvotes · 52 comments · Question
• What’s the best way to get better at marketing without another course?41 upvotes · 40 comments · Question
• I've been designing for 25 years. Now, winning clients is becoming my job, and marketing feels like throwing spaghetti at the wall. Is there a method under the mess?32 upvotes · 21 comments · Question
• How common is it for an average marketing agency to make $10k a month?30 upvotes · 53 comments · Question

Common questions