Your Reddit experiences and success.

I had success on reddit once with an old blog post on how to make bacon. someone on reddit shared it and I got thousands of likes from it. Other than that I rarely use it because I've never seen any benefit from uploading my own videos
 
Well I am begginer, but over 50% of my traffic comes from reddit. But yeah... There is some rude people trying to be funny etc. I post once per week on reddit, day after I upload video.
 
Hit and miss for me. But it's how I attract some viewers to my video mostly. There's a bunch that would hate it when posted on "wrong subreddits" (r/videos people doesn't like self promotion at most cases), and most of the subreddits where you could promote your own video are either small or have no interaction whatsoever. I love reddit, but I wish youtube had a "discover" feature to check out the smaller youtubers.
 
I'm a regular user of Reddit and have been for over 4 years so I'v seen my fair share on that site.

In regards of using Reddit to help my channel I'v only ever posted a handful of videos and they were aimed at the community in question but it wasn't to promote my channel so much as it was to try and help people or try and get people to help me. The only time I ever remember posting a gameplay video was my Clustertruck video on one of my old channels.

The response was neutral with some saying it was cool with others saying there is no need to post videos so its always hit and miss when working with Reddit.

Be careful though because Reddit can get real nasty if you poke at it enough times
 
I tried to post a video on reddit... But honestly I do not understand reddit!!!! I posted the video 16 hrs ago and it is still waiting moderation?
 
Uncle Eggnog said:
I wouldn't dare promote on 4chan surely you understand the community there is rather wild. I had my fair share of 4chan years ago and i would consider myself a fool to even discuss ANYTHING about my life to them.
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Someone actually posted a video of mine there and the reaction was extremely positive! I was shocked!

As for Reddit, my advice is make videos good enough that will compel others to post it for you and just pretend that Reddit doesn't exist
 
Can someone help me out? I made a reddit account and joined some sub-reddit pages. I commented on a few posts and those showed up... Then I tried to post a video and it still hasn't shown up... I did a text post 16 hrs later and that hasn't shown up either...

Is there something I have to do before I can make posts? Are they being marked as spam? Reddit is not my thing clearly.... All other social medias I understand, this one.. not so much!
 
iMSaiyan said:
There are a lot of subreddits for a bunch of different things, you can show your vlogging video or any video basically - but unless it is AMAZING / very funny or somehow benefits the Reddit user watching it, they'll usually leave dislikes......Reddit is ruthless - trust me.
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I would say rather that reddit is fickle, like your stuff one second dislike it the next but never really caring that much one way or the other. Places like 4chan and something awful forums are more "ruthless", by internet standards anyway.
 
Reddit has been reasonably good to me, because I make content that has a good fit with some of their subreddits. So most of the time I get positive comments.

On the plus side when I post I'll generate 100-500 more views, depending on how well it places. Similarly I'll see maybe 10 or 20 new subscribers around the time the post is trending.

On the minus side my audience retention figures dip as I assume people watch the first few seconds and move on.

So overall I get a short term spike from posting, but I wonder whether my long term video performance results suffer as a consequence of the audience retention dip.

Steve
 
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