用户增长现疲态、制药广告大增50%:Reddit三季报10月29日见分晓

韦德布什证券(Wedbush)预计,日活跃用户的压力将持续到10月29日发布的财报;Reddit制药广告团队则认为,AI模型靠抓取站内健康问答作答,制药品类的复合增速因此保持在50%以上。同一只股票,同一个季度,两种解读。

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2018年11月,Reddit首席执行官史蒂夫·霍夫曼出席高盛私人创新企业大会。Reddit将于10月29日发布第三季度财报。

Reddit−3.60% — Reddit, down 3.60 percent today将于10月29日发布第三季度财报,而财报发布前最响亮的两个信号,指向截然相反的方向21。韦德布什证券提示,进入三季度以来,日活跃用户面临短期压力2;而Reddit自家负责制药行业合作的负责人Jess Calef则表示,截至二季度,平台制药广告收入与投放额同比增长均超过50%1。在投资者权衡哪个数字将主导股价之际,该股10月23日下跌1.56%2。

空头阵营:受众停止增长

用户端的逻辑很简单。Reddit二季度日活跃独立用户数为1.303亿,同比增长18%;但临近季度末,来自搜索的引荐流量起伏不定、逐步走低,今年以来股价已累计下跌约36%,表现逊于Meta−1.36% — Meta, down 1.36 percent today、Pinterest−2.75% — Pinterest, down 2.75 percent today和Snap3。韦德布什证券预计,这一压力将体现在三季度的用户数据中2。空方的逻辑是:受众一旦停滞,广告业务便无法永远复利增长。

多头阵营:广告增速快于用户增长

营收端的逻辑取决于定价和品类组合,而非用户规模。二季度国际收入同比增长84%,全球每用户平均收入(ARPU)增长36%,达到6.18美元3。管理层对三季度营收的指引为8.6亿至8.7亿美元,按中值计算同比增长约48%3。制药是其中增长最快的品类:Calef称,截至二季度,制药广告投放与收入的同比增速均超过50%;过去一年,健康类讨论累计浏览量超过360亿次,61%的美国健康信息搜寻者在采取行动前,会到Reddit上做“最后核实”1。

制药广告投放与收入增速快于Reddit用户增长

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020406080100国际收入(二季度)84制药广告投放50全球ARPU36日活跃独立用户数18
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国际收入(二季度)84
制药广告投放 (estimate)50
全球ARPU36
日活跃独立用户数18
图中为各项数据的同比增速。制药一项为公司口径的“超过50%”(截至2026年二季度),图中按50%的估计值绘制;其余各项均为2026年二季度披露数据。资料来源:MM+M(制药数据);Zacks,经MSN转引(其余各项披露数据)。1,3

药企为何愿意付费?答案是“机器可读”的。Claude、ChatGPT、Gemini等大语言模型(LLM)会抓取Reddit的文本内容,用以回答健康类咨询,制药品牌因此购买广告位,把自身嵌入MM+M所称的“AI循环系统”之中1。Reddit与CMI Media Group、Compas两家代理机构合作,推出了符合MLR(医学、法律与监管审查)合规要求的广告位;基因泰克则通过分析700多个健康类子版块的讨论,策划了一场面向患者照护者的营销活动1。Calef的说法是:AI不会取代Reddit——使用AI的Reddit用户,在平台上的参与深度比不使用者高出46%1。

交叉质证

多空两派援引的是同一份二季度财报1。空头盯住用户数据,多头盯住营收数据;至于制药业务“同比增速超过50%”这一说法,则来自公司在行业活动上给出的数字,并非经审计的分部披露1。

一锤定音的不是争论,而是10月29日的算术:日活跃独立用户数增速是在二季度18%的基础上加快还是放缓,营收能否超过8.86亿美元的一致预期23。在用户增长停滞的背景下,高利润品类的扩张是一门真生意,但它同样有天花板——三季报将让投资者看清,距离这层天花板还有多远23。

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