Rumble
Address: 444 Gulf of Mexico Dr, Longboat Key, FL 34228, USA
Rumble is an online video platform, web hosting, and cloud services business headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with its U.S. headquarters in Longboat Key, Florida. It was founded in 2013 by Chris Pavlovski, a Macedonian Canadian technology entrepreneur. Rumble's cloud services business hosts Truth Social, and the video platform is popular among American conservative and far-right users. Rumble has been described as "alt-tech". Wikipedia
Website: corp.rumble.com
Symbol: NASDAQ:RUM
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- Jul 7, 2023: Open Source with Christopher Lydon was the podcast that started it all - and this week, celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the show, and of podcasting, with podcaster Erica Heilman. Lydon says: "People speak of podcasting as radio on the internet, but it’s really something else. It can feel like 'pen-pal'ing with strangers, except that the human voice goes far and wide to the world. And Erica’s podcast Rumble Strip shows just how deep it can go."
- May 16, 2023: Let's get ready to Rumble; the online video platform is getting into podcasting with the acquisition of Callin, a social podcasting and live streaming platform. No terms were disclosed. Rumble hosts Donald Trump's Truth Social network, and the video platform is popular among American right and far-right users. Its competitor YouTube added podcasts last month.
- Jan 4, 2023: Donald Trump Jr, the eldest child of a former US president, has signed a seven-figure deal to make an exclusive "podcast" on Rumble, a video service. The show will be live, and not available through an RSS feed.
- Apr 14, 2022: Hub & Spoke's Rumble Strip has been nominated for a Peabody Award. Also nominated are PRX's S***hole Country (in Radiotopia Presents), and Mississippi Goddam: The Ballad of Billey Joe (in Reveal). The full list of Peabody nominees also includes podcasts from WNYC, WHYY, Serial Productions, BBC News, NBC News, Crooked Media and NPR - and Hulu's affectionate-but-not-very-helpful take on podcasting, Only Murders in the Building.
- Feb 8, 2022: Right-leaning video service Rumble has offered Rogan $100m to move his show to the platform. A video has also emerged of Rogan joking about sexual assault.
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