Newgrounds

Newgrounds is an independent entertainment company founded by video game programmer Tom Fulp in 1995. The company is most known for its website, which hosts user-generated content such as video games, films, audio, and artwork, which heavily rely on user review in addition to site moderators for approval to be shown. The website has attracted millions of users and is one of the largest portals for web games and animations. The company has also been associated with the development of various commercial indie games, most notably those developed by The Behemoth, which is co-owned by Tom Fulp.

Association with McLeodGaming
The majority of browser games, animations, and music tracks published to the McLeodGaming website are also available on the Newgrounds website through Gregory McLeod's account, Cleod-9, which was created on June 6, 2005. It is notable for being one of the few major outlets where several McLeodGaming games and cartoons are officially showcased, such as A Super Mario World, Super Smash Flash, and Yeah Jam Fury.

On several occasions, Newgrounds has been directly associated with games developed by McLeodGaming. Particularly, Yeah Jam Fury included Tom Fulp as a beta tester, and Fraymakers features Newgrounds as one of the many independent studios licensing its properties for it. During the Fraymakers Kickstarter campaign, Newgrounds also helped host an art contest for the game, featuring it on the front page of the website.

Influence in the McLeodGaming media
In addition to being playable on Newgrounds, certain McLeodGaming games have features tied to the website. For instance, Yeah Jam Fury's trochievals all have corresponding Newgrounds medals, and having a medal unlocked on the player's account unlocks the trochieval in-game regardless of the player's save data. Additionally, both Yeah Jam Fury and the demo for Yeah Jam Fury: U, Me, Everybody! utilize the website's leaderboards system for global high scores.

In Yeah Jam Fury: U, Me, Everybody!, the Everything, By Everyone sticker and achievement features a modified version of the Newgrounds logo with Ms. Carrot in the tank. The name is a reference to the slogan of Newgrounds often accompanied by the logo.

In Fraymakers, the Newgrounds logo mascot Tankman is featured as an Assist character, appearing inside his tank with his design from the 2006 redesign of the Newgrounds logo.

Trivia

 * Currently, four awards have been received on the Cleod-9 Newgrounds account: a Daily 3rd Place award for A Super Mario World Episode 2, a Daily Weekly award for Super Smash Flash, a Daily 5th Place for Yeah Jam Fury, and a Daily 3rd Place for the Yeah Jam Fury: U, Me, Everybody! Demo.