Newgrounds
An online creators' community for publishing their games, music, videos, etc.
Newgrounds popularity rank history
Monthly average · last 12 moA lower rank number means higher popularity. Dashed sections represent months outside the Tranco ranking.
How to read a popularity rank
The lower the number, the higher the ranking. WhoTrends uses the Tranco ranking system, which is a research-based ranking that incorporates multiple sources in order to eliminate any short-term fluctuations and bias. This is a relative ranking based on popularity.
Newgrounds domain registration
WHOIS record| Registered | 1998-09-17 (28 yr) |
| Expires | 2026-09-16 |
| Registrar | TUCOWS.COM, CO. |
| DNSSEC | Enabled |
| Name servers | ns1.ungrounded.net, ns2.ungrounded.net |
Newgrounds classification
Public profile| Type | Social media |
| Industry | Media entertainment |
| Market | B2C |
| Monetization | subscription |
| Pricing | free |
| App | iOS / Android |
| Audience | indie creators and gamers |
| Tags |
Newgrounds competitors
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A free social media website where people come together to share information, communicate, and learn about communities.
| May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
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| #5 | #5 | #5 | #4 | #3 | #4 |
Online video website offering videos to the user, as well as options to generate revenue from user-submitted videos.
| May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #8 | #8 | #9 | #8 | #9 | #10 |
A mobile application where users can share images, videos, and stories with their network of friends and followers, as well as with businesses.
| May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
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| #12 | #11 | #11 | #11 | #11 | #12 |
A global social networking platform for short posts, real-time news, and public conversation, serving users and advertisers.
| May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #56 | #54 | #53 | #53 | #50 | #48 |
Newgrounds backlink profile
Majestic| Referring subnets | 6,164 |
| Referring IPs | 11,015 |
| Majestic global rank | #3,763 |
| Rank within .com | #1,888 |
| Authority | High |
| As of | Oct 2026 |
About Newgrounds
Newgrounds is a website providing entertainment based on user-generated content, an online community owned and maintained by the corporation Newgrounds.com, Inc. The website was created in 1995 in the USA by Tom Fulp; it is headquartered in Glenside, Pennsylvania. It features independent video games, animations, music, and digital artwork from its users.
It features a sharing platform for user-generated games, animations, music and digital artworks by means of the portals of Games, Movies, Audio and Art. It originated from a service called "New Ground," a club aimed at Neo Geo fans. This website started as a personal page and Neo Geo site for Tom Fulp.
In the year 2000, the website introduced an automated service for uploading users' games and videos. It is recognized as the pioneer of web Flash games and independent animations with a user-driven rating system.
Newgrounds works in English; it supports itself by ads and subscription payments from its fans.