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Reddit

Communication Services

Reddit is a social news aggregation, content rating and discussion service founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, organized into thousands of user-created and user-moderated topic communities called subreddits. Content and comments are ranked chiefly by user upvotes and downvotes, and the platform, which went public in 2024, became one of the most visited websites in the world and a significant source of raw text data used to train large language models.

Facts
Classification
Sector (GICS)
Communication Services 1
Offering Kind
Service 1
Launch Year
2005 1
Maker
Reddit, Inc. 1
Connections

In Sector

Entity identity for the business product-service.sector GICS enum value this member already carries, per the phase 3 entity-backed browse bucket pilot (docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md, owner decision 2026-09-28 on business product-service.sector, w-bucketpilot-gics-0929). The sector fact itself, with its own citation, remains on the member entity unchanged; this edge only adds the durable entity identity the enum value already names.

Sources
1. Wikipedia, Reddit
Wikipedia
  • Lead section, paragraph 1, operator sentence
    It is operated by Reddit, Inc., based in San Francisco.
  • Lead section, paragraph 3, founding sentence
    Reddit was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in June 2005
  • Introduction, GICS sector classification
    Reddit is a proprietary American social news website, news aggregator, forum and social media platform.
  • Introduction, offering kind classification
    Reddit is a proprietary American social news website, news aggregator, forum and social media platform.
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Wikidata: Reddit
Wikidata Q1136, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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