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There was a case of theoatmeal.com a long time ago. They supported the user submitting content even though it was his own.

• Consultant32452 11y ago
  The guy who runs the youtube channel Smarter Everyday has his own subreddit and promotes it regularly.
  • RubyPinch 11y ago
    to be fair, both oatmeal and smarter everyday didn't start a community on reddit, wait for it to grow, and then try to divert that community into their own sites (as planned all along)
    • Consultant32452 11y ago
      I think one key difference, as far as Reddit is concerned, is that for things like Smarter Everyday the "relationship," if you could call it that, probably drives more of Smarter Everyday's traffic to Reddit than it pulls from Reddit over to Youtube. People go to Reddit to talk about SED videos and suggest content and ideas because it's a better communication platform than Youtube provides. This is, of course, totally in line with what you're saying.