We all know that Reddit is a powerful platform with a very high engagement rate. People from all over the world gather to have meaningful discussions on various topics. As a marketer, you can leverage Reddit’s power and build relationships around your brand and topics you’re interested in. In this post, we’ll show you how we’ve ended up on the front page of Reddit and got 17,350 visitors in one day. Let’s kick it off with some graphics.

The traffic spike on the day that we got on the front page of Reddit, pretty much made GlobalOwls’s traffic on previous- and following days look like a small bleep in Google Analytics.

With 1,106 people on GlobalOwls at the same time, we were really hoping the servers wouldn’t crash (luckily everything went smooth).

How did we get on the front page of Reddit? We’ve launched a new blog series about “inspirational stories” of people committed to doing good. The goal is to share background stories of the organizations published on GlobalOwls and other stories we find inspiring. So. Our first post was about: Two teen sisters committed to banning plastic bags in Bali We’ve submitted this post to the SubReddit: UpliftingNews and received a lot of engagement.

Thanks to all the engagement. We ended up on Reddit’s homepage. Not too bad!

How you can try to get on the front page of Reddit We’ve been active on Reddit for quite a while now. We’ll try to give some tips on how to get on Reddit’s front page so you can try it for yourself, if applicable.