How Much Success Have You Had With Reddit?

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I was actually just thinking about this very topic when I saw this post, thanks for starting it. I think I'm gonna start posting and see what happens, I'll try and post my results on here
 
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Everything I've done with Reddit has been negative. I write for gaming websites in my free time, and even when I'm trying to put up a relevant article about a change/update to a game, I just get lit up, down voted, and removed from the subreddit.
 

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Haven't had much luck in reddit, but I'll admit, it's where most of my traffic come from. Huge subreddits like r/funny doesn't seem to like it when u post your own stuff. Which kinda sucks for me cuz I can't gi incognito, I have the same username in every online account I have :/ and the thing with smaller youtube subreddits is that they're usually a lot less active. I recently ot banned from r/funny and r/humor at the same time (no idea why, i havent posted in r/funny in months), they probably had a mutual mod. Now I dunno any other subreddits which is kinda active. I agree with the statements said above me, smaller subreddits seem to have much nicer people. I've only had one video with positive upvotes in reddit (which was 4 LOL) in r/humor, aaaand now Im banned lol
 

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Haven't had much luck in reddit, but I'll admit, it's where most of my traffic come from. Huge subreddits like r/funny doesn't seem to like it when u post your own stuff. Which kinda sucks for me cuz I can't gi incognito, I have the same username in every online account I have :/ and the thing with smaller youtube subreddits is that they're usually a lot less active. I recently ot banned from r/funny and r/humor at the same time (no idea why, i havent posted in r/funny in months), they probably had a mutual mod. Now I dunno any other subreddits which is kinda active. I agree with the statements said above me, smaller subreddits seem to have much nicer people. I've only had one video with positive upvotes in reddit (which was 4 LOL) in r/humor, aaaand now Im banned lol
Nothing says you can't start over. Make a new account and start posting and commenting other stuff. Do that for a while to build up some Karma and then introduce one of your vids. Better to put a video on a smaller subreddit where it might get at least a few views, than put it on a big one that gets you banned or removed instantly. I use other peoples videos here and post them around reddit so I can build my karma. It works. Commenting is also helpful. I know on /r/videos you have to have 10 link and 10 comment karma before you can even post anything. But lots of smaller subreddits have no such rules. It is a great place to get some view, but it isn't easy.
 
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2 out of 10 videos have been frowned upon and have been deleted, but they are kind to me!
 

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r/videos hates me and I've been banned from a few subreddits after even just one post, but there's some subreddits which absolutely love me and have given me a fair amount of subscribers. I give credit to my most viewed video (approaching 28K now) to Reddit mostly. It's great to kickstart brand new videos into at least a 100+ views. I think posting quality links on there daily as long as you're following the 90/10 rule will help your channel grow in half the time
 

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Nothing says you can't start over. Make a new account and start posting and commenting other stuff. Do that for a while to build up some Karma and then introduce one of your vids. Better to put a video on a smaller subreddit where it might get at least a few views, than put it on a big one that gets you banned or removed instantly. I use other peoples videos here and post them around reddit so I can build my karma. It works. Commenting is also helpful. I know on /r/videos you have to have 10 link and 10 comment karma before you can even post anything. But lots of smaller subreddits have no such rules. It is a great place to get some view, but it isn't easy.
Great tips man! Alright I'll try that too ^_^
 

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I've had some success here and there thanks to Reddit, although I don't frequent very large communities, so it's not ridiculously huge or anything.
 

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I think it also depends largely on what your content is about. For example, I've got a video where I highlighted the DIY aspects of my studio I built. I posted that in the DIY forum and the views skyrocketed. For me, that's a relative term because my videos aren't going 100+ yet. But this DIY video nearly has over 800 views. Why? Because the sub reddit is DIY and people there actually WANT to see what other people do. It's not just a gaming subreddit where people toss in their video in the hopes that others will want to watch them there. They'll just goto Youtube for that. I haven't found the magical subreddit for games yet though and quite honestly, I don't think I will.