{"id":851469,"date":"2026-08-09T05:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T05:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851469\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T05:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T05:44:10","slug":"ai-is-turning-a-reddit-mention-into-a-potential-goldmine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851469\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Is Turning a Reddit Mention Into a Potential Goldmine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        As AI increasingly takes over internet searches, Reddit has found itself in a prominent position\u2014making it a new battleground for brands trying to game AI. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/973098\/reddit-ai-search-seo-marketing-brands-spam\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Verge<\/a>, Mia Sato cites Semrush data that shows Reddit was the most-cited domain by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini in May. Marketers have taken note, and a &#8220;whole host of startups, brands, and agencies are coming to Reddit to try to promote their companies in hopes that they will get picked up by AI,&#8221; writes Sato. That presents a challenge for a &#8220;platform that users have come to associate with authenticity and unfiltered, truthful opinions.&#8221;&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        As for how this takes shape, Sato shares the story of user Primary-Taro4254, who responded to a question asked in a skincare subreddit about a particular hypochlorous acid spray. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t personally tried [that brand] so I can&#8217;t fully compare, sorry,&#8221; Primary-Taro4254 wrote. &#8220;But I have been using a similar hypochlorous acid spray from Honeydew Labs and I&#8217;ve honestly really liked it.&#8221; A dive into Primary-Taro4254&#8217;s profile shows similar posts about the Honeydew Labs spray across a number of related subreddits; a moderator later said they took action on the user. Volunteer moderators are the main line of defense and are building keyword filters and &#8220;sh-t lists&#8221; of brands suspected of trying to secretly promote themselves. Reddit itself says it&#8217;s catching 25,000 spammy posts using its tools.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; As AI increasingly takes over internet searches, Reddit has found itself in a prominent position\u2014making it a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,22197,49,48,142,296102,2522,157507,61],"class_list":["post-851469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-brands","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-marketing","tag-moderators","tag-reddit","tag-spam","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}