Reddit Stock Takes a Nosedive Amidst Google's AI Traffic Disruption

Reddit stock plunges 29.2% as Google AI cuts US traffic

10/31/2026

Updated to reflect Reddit closing stock price on 10/30/2026 Reddit’s stock plunged 29.2% on Friday, October 30, after the company said its U.S. audience is shrinking due to Google’s AI search...

Decrypt

Reddit Stock Plunges 30% as Google's AI Search Hits Traffic and User Growth

10/30/2026

Reddit shares are down 44% this week after CEO Steve Huffman warned that Google's AI-powered search features are cutting referrals, while weaker user growth and disappointing fourth-quarter...

Reuters

Reddit shares plunge as Google's AI search squeezes traffic

10/30/2026

Reddit shares tumbled 29% on Friday, marking their biggest single-day drop and hitting their lowest level in over a year, after the company warned that Google's AI-powered search was ‌hurting...

THE DECODER

Google's AI Mode doesn't drive traffic "for anybody," Reddit CEO Huffman warns the entire web

10/30/2026

Reddit lost over one million Google search referrals per week in October, CEO Steve Huffman said. The stock dropped more than 25 percent despite strong earnings. Huffman blames Google's AI...

CNBC

Reddit stock plunges 30% after weak outlook, heads for worst day ever

10/30/2026

Reddit shares sank on Friday after the company issued weak Q4 sales guidance and announced it will test requiring users to log in to see content.

Search Engine Journal

Reddit CEO Ties Search Referral Drop To Google AI Mode

10/30/2026

Reddit told shareholders Thursday that its search traffic dropped by more than 1 million referrals per week, on average, during October. That followed a third quarter in which search referral...

Mashable

Google, Reddit, and more tech stocks plummet: What’s driving market shocks

10/30/2026

Tech stocks are taking a big hit on the stock market today, and they really only have themselves to blame.Just look at Google and Reddit's plummeting stocks. On Thursday, Google stock experienced...

Reddit's Shift to Mandatory Login Amid Declining Google Traffic Raises Questions

CNBC

Reddit posts third-quarter earnings and plans login requirement test as Google search traffic shrinks

10/30/2026

Reddit posts third-quarter earnings and reveals plans to require all users to create official accounts as Google search traffic shrinks

Business Insider

Reddit is going logged-in only. Blame Google AI Overviews

10/30/2026

Like publishers everywhere, Reddit is learning the hard lesson that Google giveth — and Google taketh away traffic.

Platformer

What Google and Reddit's bad days have in common

10/30/2026

AI search is underperforming for Google, and it's killing Reddit's traffic. What now?

Mashable

Reddit to force mandatory login as Google traffic drops

10/30/2026

One of the best things about Reddit is going away, and you have Google to thank for it.In its third-quarter earnings report released on Thursday, Reddit revealed plans to eventually force all...

TheStreet

Googling for Reddit answers is about to get harder

10/30/2026

A JUST IN post from Polymarket stopped my scroll recently: Traffic to top U.S. news websites is collapsing as AI replaces traditional search. I immediately thought of Reddit Inc. (RDDT), the...