Who owns Reddit?
Reddit is owned by Reddit, Inc. (the United States, NYSE: RDDT).[1]
Evidence: Reddit, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-06, SEC EDGAR, 6 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Reddit, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, San Francisco, California
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, Medford, Massachusetts
- Founded
- 2005
- Category
- Internet & digital › Search & social › Social networks
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: RDDT
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Reddit
Reddit is a network of user-created forums ranked by votes, and calls itself the front page of the internet. Adding the word reddit to a search query is now common enough that Google has cited the behaviour, and the site licenses its archive for training language models.
Ownership timeline of Reddit
Where Reddit sits in Reddit
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands in social networks, and who owns them
The 19 brands in social networks on Brandtree belong to 14 owners. The largest is Meta, with 3.
About the owner: Reddit
Reddit is a publicly listed company headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, founded in 2005. Brandtree records 1 brand under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: RDDT.
Reddit was founded in 2005, sold to Condé Nast a year later, and spun back out as an independent company in 2011 before listing in 2024. It is run almost entirely by unpaid volunteer moderators, a dependency made obvious in 2023 when a protest over pricing took thousands of communities dark.
🇺🇸 Reddit and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Reddit is not one of them.
Latest news about Reddit
- Commission designates ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox under Digital Services Act* — ec.europa.eu, · regulatory
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Reddit?
The parent company of Reddit is Reddit, Inc., a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Reddit American?
Yes. Reddit originated in the United States in 2005 and its owner, Reddit, Inc., is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Reddit still owned by Reddit, Inc.?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Reddit is still owned by Reddit, Inc. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Reddit, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-06 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 6 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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