History Of Rumble

Rumble is a company that provides online video, web hosting, and cloud services. It is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and has its U.S. headquarters in Longboat Key, Florida. Chris Pavlovski, a technology entrepreneur from Macedonia who is also a Canadian citizen, started the company in 2013.

Truth Social is hosted by Rumble's cloud services division, and the video platform is well-liked by users in the United States who identify as conservative or far-right. Rumble has been referred to as "alternative technology."

Chris Pavlovski started Rumble in October 2013 as a platform for independent vloggers and smaller content providers to use instead of YouTube.

Pavlovski started the site after seeing that Google was giving more importance to influencers on YouTube than to independent content providers. Rumble was not very popular in the beginning. At the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, the platform saw a significant increase in the number of viewers.

The number of visitors per month increased from 1.6 million in 2020 to 31.9 million in 2021. Rumble made over $6.5 million in revenue during the first nine months of 2021, mostly from commercials, but the company did not turn a profit.

In 2020, Rumble's popularity increased because Devin Nunes, a Republican lawmaker at the time, claimed that YouTube was suppressing his channel too much.

Nunes was the first to upload material to Rumble, and he was quickly joined by other well-known conservatives, including Dinesh D'Souza, Dan Bongino, Sean Hannity, and Representative Jim Jordan.In June 2021, Donald Trump, the former president of the United States, joined Rumble in order to get ready to film his campaign rally in Ohio.

Rumble launched a lawsuit against Google on January 11, 2021, claiming that the company's search algorithms violated antitrust laws. Rumble is demanding damages of more than $2 billion. Rumble claimed that Google altered its algorithm in order to give its own YouTube platform a higher ranking than Rumble in Google search results.

Rumble said that this direct manipulation caused its viewership to decrease, which in turn led to a drop in advertising income for the firm. A court in California ruled in August 2022 that Rumble's lawsuit against Google may go forward.

In May 2021, Rumble secured financing from venture investors Peter Thiel, Vivek Ramaswamy, and JD Vance.

The fundraising round valued Rumble at around $500 million. Locals was purchased by Rumble in October 2021. Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) announced on December 14, 2021, that it had engaged into a "wide-ranging technology and cloud services agreement" with Rumble.

The announcement also indicated that Rumble will run part of Truth Social as well as TMTG. In December 2021, Rumble also challenged a New York statute that prohibited hate speech on social media.

In August 2022, Rumble revealed its intentions to launch an online advertising platform called Rumble Ads, with Truth Social being the first publisher to use it.After combining with a special-purpose acquisition business, Rumble became a publicly listed corporation in September 2022. It trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol RUM.Rumble purchased the podcasting site CallIn in May 2023.

Rumble was given the exclusive right to webcast the Republican presidential primary debates online in 2023.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced in 2024 that Rumble was being investigated, but the details of the probe are not public. Pavlovski, on the other hand, said in January that "the short-lived investigation was part of a coordinated ploy by short sellers manipulating the market." The inquiry against Rumble was closed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

In November 2024, Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm, the founder, secured a contract to generate both free and exclusive content on the platform and lead Rumble Gaming. Beahm received shares in the firm as part of the purchase.

In January 2025, Pavlovski became a millionaire as Rumble's stock price rose by about 190 percent in 2024.