How does imgur work?

Emuhleigh

Emuhleigh

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I was thinking about using imgur to help promote my channel, but I have no idea how it works. I just uploaded a gif and it got 12 downvotes in under ten minuets. lol

Is this the Reddit of the picture world?
 
The other day I made a gif from one of my videos on IMGUR and in the comments I put the link to the full video. I thought I would just see what happened. A day later I was surprised the gif had three comments, a bunch of up votes and over 4,000 views. Based on this positive showing, I posted the gif on Reddit (with video link in comments) and it received 75 up votes and the video had a couple hundred views on YouTube.

So I don't know how IMGUR works, but it could be a place to test a gif. I also will pull stuff off IMGUR to post on Reddit so I'm not posting my stuff all the time.
 
Imgur works very similar to reddit, however I don't believe it has the potential to be an effective marketing tool that you could rely on to promote your videos. Like Reddit, self promotion is generally frowned upon by the community. If you have content to share that is funny or somewhat noteworthy, the potential to go viral or semi viral is there, but it's going to be difficult.

Trial and error will be your best bet, finding what content works and what doesn't.
 
Emuhleigh said:
Is this the Reddit of the picture world?
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Yes. I was literally going to say exactly this. Imgur is kinda the "unofficial" image hosting site of Reddit (although I have heard that Reddit is trying to generate its own internal image hosting). So while there are redditors who don't surf imgur and there are imgur folks who don't visit reddit, there should be a lot of overlap in audiences.
 
Don't use imgur to advertise, it will, i can 99% safely say it will get downvoted into oblivion. I don't submit anything, and just lurk around, read the comments and stuff. I have to say there is quite a bit of hate going around and there seems to be no pleasing anyone.
 
PictureFIT said:
Yep, pretty much. I would say it's one of the least effective social media outlets. It pretty much acts as a picture platform for reddit posts. I wouldn't recommend relying on it.
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LadyAiluro said:
Don't use imgur to advertise, it will, i can 99% safely say it will get downvoted into oblivion. I don't submit anything, and just lurk around, read the comments and stuff. I have to say there is quite a bit of hate going around and there seems to be no pleasing anyone.
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subversiveasset said:
Yes. I was literally going to say exactly this. Imgur is kinda the "unofficial" image hosting site of Reddit (although I have heard that Reddit is trying to generate its own internal image hosting). So while there are redditors who don't surf imgur and there are imgur folks who don't visit reddit, there should be a lot of overlap in audiences.
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Thanks everyone! Yeahhh, I'm going to steer clear of imgur. lol
 
I've learned imgur is like the go to site for reddit in terms of where to get pictures from. As for advertising, I'm not sure it would be super useful but it's worth a shot. I wouldn't bank too much on it.
 
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