About r/business
In its own words:
/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.
Community guide
r/business (#431, about 2.6 million) aims at business-section reading—tips, pitfalls, and smart moves—not a place to promote your company. Rules ban business promotion, spam, blogspam, politics, surveys/questionnaires/market research, and connection-to-article submissions, while asking for business-casual tone, reddiquette, and context on direct video posts. Link and text posts dominate (~17.1 ppd).
Business news and analysis
Article links and text discussion about companies, earnings, and industries fit; this is not a shop-window for your own firm.
Promo and research bans
No promoting your business, no spam/blogspam, no surveys or market-research recruitments, and no politics.
Tone and video context
Keep things business casual; follow reddiquette; add context when submitting direct videos; bad-company pile-ons belong elsewhere.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Sep 17, 2007, which makes it 19 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,153 subscribers (+0.04%). It sits just behind r/ChoosingBeggars (#430) and ahead of r/BollyBlindsNGossip (#432) in our ranking.
What sets r/business apart
r/business is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 0.9 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.6.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/business climbed from 2,591,908 to 2,599,096 subscribers (+7.2K, +0.28%). That is about 163 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/business talks about
Looking at the titles of 125 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “billion”, “olxtoto”, “company”, “earnings” and “deal”. Other frequent themes are restaurants, revenue, reports, businesses, brand and money. Recurring phrases include “mcdonald earnings”, “earnings beat”, “restaurants falls” and “different industries”. By format, 54% are links, 46% are text posts and 1% are videos.
Activity and best time to post
r/business gets about 17 new posts a day. The public archive holds 2,558,185 posts and 2,302,983 comments in total, about 0.9 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Thursday (33 posts) and the quietest was Saturday (8). Posting peaks around 08:00 UTC and is lowest around 01:00 UTC.
Rules of r/business
The moderators of r/business list 10 rules. In short:
- This is not the place to promote your business.
- Spamming will result in an instant ban.
- Connection to article submissions is not allowed.
- No blogspam.
- No politics.
- Bad company behavior belongs elsewhere.
- Keep things business casual
- Follow reddiquette
- Include context for direct video submissions.
- Surveys, questionnaires and (market) research are not allowed
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/business and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/business have?
r/business has 2,599,096 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #431 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 7,188 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/business?
r/business was created on Sep 17, 2007, so it has been around for 19 years.
How active is r/business?
Moderately: r/business gets about 17 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 2,558,185 posts and 2,302,983 comments. In a sample of 125 recent posts we counted 91 different authors.
When is r/business most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Thursday and the quietest Saturday, and most posts arrive around 08:00 UTC, with the fewest around 01:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/business about?
The community describes itself as: “/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.” Recent post titles often mention billion, olxtoto, company, earnings and deal. Most posts are links (54%).
Is r/business safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/business as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/business?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/business accepts both text and link posts. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “This is not the place to promote your business.”; “Spamming will result in an instant ban.”; “Connection to article submissions is not allowed.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/business?
Communities with similar topics include r/smallbusiness (2.6M), r/boxoffice (1.2M), r/running (4.3M), r/hacking (3M) and r/CollegeBasketball (3M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/business.