Rumble
Type of site
Video hosting service
Founded2013; 11 years ago (2013)
Headquarters218 Adelaide St W, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)
  • Chris Pavlovski
Key peopleDan Bongino
Industry
ProductsRumble Viral
JR Tech
Neroku
URLrumble.com
Launched2013; 11 years ago (2013)
Current statusActive

Rumble is a Canadian online video platform headquartered in Toronto, and founded in 2013. The site was founded by Chris Pavlovski, a tech entrepreneur from Canada.[1]

On January 11, 2020, Rumble sued Google over its search results, seeking damages exceeding $2 Billion.[2][3]

Users and content

For its first seven years, content on Rumble largely consisted of videos of pets and babies. In August 2020, however, Representative Devin Nunes accused YouTube of being overly censorious toward his channel and began posting his videos on Rumble. Other prominent conservatives and libertarians such as Dinesh D’Souza, Sean Hannity, and Representative Jim Jordan soon followed. Although the platform forbids pornography, harassment, racist content, and illegal content, anything else is permitted.[1][4][5][6][7]

Following the 2020 United States presidential election, the storming of the United States Capitol, and the permanent suspension of President Donald Trump on Twitter, many conservative users of mainstream social media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, migrated to Rumble.[8][9]

Other users and channels on Rumble include the conservative Hodgetwins, conservative news website Newsmax, far-right cable news channel One America News Network (OANN), and international news organization Reuters.[10]

Design

The interface of Rumble features "recommended channels" to follow and an "Earnings" tab, along with four other tabs in the main interface.[10] Rumble also allows its users to generate revenue off of their videos.[10] Users upload videos that are then licensed to Rumble's partners, such as Yahoo! and Microsoft News, and the money made from those videos is directly deposited into a user's Rumble account.[10]

Users of Rumble can win a daily cash drawing by swiping left or right to vote on videos and earn tickets.[10] The more tickets a user has, the more entries a user can submit in the cash drawing.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Silverman, Craig (November 2, 2020). "Can Dan Bongino Make Rumble The Right's New Platform?". Buzzfeed News.
  2. ^ Schechner, Sam (January 11, 2021). "Google Sued by YouTube Rival Over Search Rankings". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
  3. ^ O'Kane, Josh (January 13, 2021). "Toronto video-hosting startup Rumble Inc. sues Google over search result". The Globe And Mail. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
  4. ^ Watts, Marina (October 26, 2020). "What Is Rumble? The YouTube Alternative 'Where Conservative Views Won't Be Discriminated Against'". Newsweek. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  5. ^ Zakrzewski, Cat (November 16, 2020). "The Technology 202: YouTube alternative Rumble highlights conservatives' move to more hands-off social networks". Washington Post. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  6. ^ Isaac, Mike; Browning, Kellen (November 18, 2020). "Fact-Checked on Facebook and Twitter, Conservatives Switch Their Apps". New York Times. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  7. ^ Mak, Aaron (December 15, 2020). "Meet Rumble, the YouTube Alternative Where Trump Could Still Win". Slate. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  8. ^ Isaac, Mike; Browning, Kellen (November 11, 2020). "Fact-Checked on Facebook and Twitter, Conservatives Switch Their Apps". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
  9. ^ Wilson, Jason (January 13, 2021). "Rightwingers flock to 'alt tech' networks as mainstream sites ban Trump". The Guardian. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
  10. ^ a b c d e f Parker, Bryan C. (January 15, 2021). "The next Parler: I tried four apps attracting right-wing users". SFGate. Retrieved January 16, 2021.((cite web)): CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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