Reddit Inc
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Feb 13, 2025.
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FY2024 · Filed Feb 13, 2025
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors
Reddit, Inc.:
Opinion on the Consolidated Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Reddit, Inc. and subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), convertible preferred stock and stockholders’ equity (deficit), and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes (collectively, the consolidated financial statements). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2024, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
Basis for Opinion
These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of a critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
Evaluation of the delivery quantity of ad impressions
As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company generated $1,300 million of revenue for the year ended December 31, 2024. The Company generates the majority of its revenues by delivering ads on the Company’s website and mobile applications. Revenue is recognized after transferring control of the promised goods or services to customers, which occurs when a user clicks on an ad contracted on a cost per click basis, views an ad contracted on a cost per thousand impressions basis, views a video ad contracted on a cost per view basis, or on a fixed fee basis, based on ad delivery over the service period.
We identified the evaluation of the sufficiency of audit evidence over advertising revenue as a critical audit matter. Complex auditor judgment was required in evaluating the sufficiency of audit evidence over advertising revenue due to the proprietary IT system used to capture and track ad delivery used in revenue recognition. Specialized skills and knowledge were needed to test the IT system used for the processing and recording of advertising revenue.
The following are the primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter. We applied auditor judgment to determine the nature and extent of procedures to be performed over advertising revenue. We involved IT professionals with specialized skills and knowledge, who assisted in evaluating the design and testing the operating effectiveness of a manual internal control over the Company’s advertising revenue process. We tested the capture and tracking of ad delivery within the Company’s revenue systems by comparing known instances of ads viewed to system information for ads delivered. We performed a software-assisted data analysis to test relationships among certain revenue transactions. For a selection of advertising revenue transactions, we assessed the recorded revenue by comparing the amounts recognized for consistency with underlying documentation, including contract terms, ads delivered, accounts receivables, and subsequent cash received, if applicable. We evaluated the sufficiency of audit evidence obtained by assessing the results of procedures performed, including the appropriateness of the nature and extent of the audit effort.
/s/KPMG LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2019.
San Francisco, California
February 12, 2025
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