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<p>It's the last day of the year 2015, and it's been a heck of a year for Reddit, Inc. We're once again wrapping up the year, simultaneously mourning that we still don't have hoverboards, whilst thanking our lucky stars we didn't end up <a href="http://i.imgur.com/5aqKSij.jpg">actually dressing like this</a>.</p>

<p>In 2015, we saw:</p>

<h2>Reddit.com</h2>
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<li>82.54 billion pageviews</li>
<li>73.15 million submissions</li>
<li>725.85 million comments:</li>
<li style="margin-left: 30px;">Made by 8.7 million total authors</li style="margin-left: 30px;">
<li style="margin-left: 30px;">Containing 19.36 billion words</li style="margin-left: 30px;">
<li>6.89 billion upvotes</li>
<li>88,700 active subreddits<sup>1</sup></li>
<li>101 gildings on the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/GetMotivated/comments/2xc947/text_soon_i_will_be_gone_forever_but_thats_okay/">top gilded post</a></li>
<li>100 gildings on the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/3pndyg/stop_spawn_killing_me_bitch/cw8fban/">top gilded comment</a><sup>2</sup></li>
<li>327,800 total months of gold gilded</li> 
<li style="margin-left: 30px;">Given by 97,500 redditors</li style="margin-left: 30px;">
<li>1 million <a href="http://www.redditblog.com/2015/04/the-button.html">button pressers</a></li>
<li>1 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/3921yz/the_button_has_ended/crzo3g7">pressiah</a></li>
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<center><img src="http://i.imgur.com/oLrGbKJ.png" alt="Reddit Live" style="width:300px;height:75px;"  align="right" hspace="20" style="margin-right: 435px;"></center>
<h2>Reddit Live - Happening Now</h2>
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<li>6,300 Reddit Live threads created</li>
<li>16,000 Reddit Live unique contributors</li>
<li>1.3 million Reddit Live updates posted</li>
<li>24.9 million Reddit Live pageviews</li>
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<center><img src="http://i.imgur.com/HIt2p1f.png" alt="Reddit for Nepal" style="width:200px;height:200px;" align="left" hspace="50"></center>
<h2>Philanthropy on Reddit</h2>
<ul>
<li>You raised over $250,000 for <a href="http://www.redditblog.com/2015/05/an-update-on-what-reddit-community-has.html">earthquake victims in Nepal</a></li>
<li>You raised <a href="https://www.redditgifts.com/exchanges/#/stats/redditgifts-teachers-2015/">nearly $772,000 for teachers</a></li>
<li>Together, we raised over $72,000 dollars for <a href="http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=portal.team">sick children through Extra Life</a></li>
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<center><img src="http://i.imgur.com/UrcyG6V.gif" alt="upvoted launch" style="width:425px;height:200px;" align="right" hspace="10"></center>
<h2>Our newest product, Upvoted!</h2>
<ul>
<li>1.8 million podcast downloads</li>
<li>8.95 million website pageviews</li>
<li>4.5 million unique pageviews</li>
<li>620,000 pageviews on the most popular submission, <a href="https://upvoted.com/2015/11/13/a-mosaic-of-donald-trump-made-with-500-dick-pics/">"A Mosaic of Donald Trump Made With 500 Dick Pics"</a></li>
<li>209,500 shares on the most shared submission, which coincidentally is the same as above!</li>
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<center><img src="http://i.imgur.com/7VrrLp0.png" alt="Best Of" style="width:110px;height:150px;" align="right" hspace="200"></center>
<h2>Subreddit Best Of's!</h2>
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<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/thenetherlands/comments/3yrt10/best_of_rthenetherlands_2015/">/r/TheNetherlands</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/3ysdfw/2015_best_of_rsoccer_awards_results/">/r/Soccer</a></li>
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<p><sup>1</sup><sub>"Active" is determined by having 5 or more posts and comments at least one week in 2015</sub><p>
<p><sup>2</sup><sub>This is the top gilded comment in a public subreddit, actual top gilded comment is in a gold-only <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MegaLounge/comments/350xll/little_shoutout_to_g4nr/cqzzcpy">private subreddit</a></li>