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/r/business brings you the best of your business section. From tips for running a business, to pitfalls to avoid, /r/business teaches you the smart moves and helps you dodge the foolish. Founded 2007 · 2.6M members

2.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 15K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.6Mmembers
15Kbest post
1.8Kmost comments
199posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

77% 11% 9%
Link 77% Text 11% Question 9% Image 3% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

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What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

The 11 companies that own everything

↑ 15K 💬 207 image 2022

Can't they just leave the single family home market alone so I can actually afford a house?

↑ 9.7K 💬 595 image 2023

Every single member of the board just resigned from DNA tester 23andMe

↑ 9.2K 💬 569 link 2024

EpiPen makers to pay massive $465 million fine for ripping off Medicaid over the lifesaving device

↑ 8.1K 💬 297 link 2016

Arizona lawmakers have approved a bill in committee to promote research into the medical potential of psilocybin mushrooms for a variety of condition…

↑ 7.7K 💬 45 image 2023

Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income Tax on $5.7 Billion of U.S. Income in 2025

↑ 7.4K 💬 537 link 2026

SpaceX IPO makes 4,400 workers into instant millionaires

↑ 7.4K 💬 977 link 2026

Kill net neutrality and you’ll kill us, say 800 US startups

↑ 6.8K 💬 194 link 2017

Not like big pharma to bury evidence of product risk…

↑ 6.7K 💬 179 image 2023

Dr Pepper just passed Pepsi as the second biggest soda brand

↑ 5.7K 💬 332 link 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/business, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/business?
r/business describes itself this way: /r/business brings you the best of your business section. From tips for running a business, to pitfalls to avoid, /r/business teaches you the smart moves and helps you dodge the foolish. It was founded in 2007 and has 2.6M members.
How many members does r/business have?
r/business has about 2.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 199 of its posts; the biggest reached 15K upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/business?
"The 11 companies that own everything" reached 15K upvotes and 207 comments in 2022, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/business.
What subreddits are similar to r/business?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/Scotland, r/mildyinteresting, r/90s.
What kind of posts do best on r/business?
Of the posts we hold, 77% are link posts and 11% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/business?
Across 199 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 00:00 UTC (4K avg upvotes), Sunday at 17:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 13:00 UTC (2.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/business?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/business has 4.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/business, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.