{"id":352458,"date":"2021-10-14T00:28:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/thiel-backed-youtube-rival-rumble-wants-to-woo-kanye-nicki-minaj\/"},"modified":"2021-10-14T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T21:28:11","slug":"thiel-backed-youtube-rival-rumble-wants-to-woo-kanye-nicki-minaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/thiel-backed-youtube-rival-rumble-wants-to-woo-kanye-nicki-minaj\/","title":{"rendered":"#Thiel-backed YouTube rival Rumble wants to woo Kanye, Nicki Minaj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Thiel-backed <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> rival Rumble wants to woo Kanye, Nicki Minaj<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>A Peter Thiel-backed YouTube rival called Rumble has established itself as a place for right-wing political commentary \u2014 but the site is looking to widen its audience by wooing controversial celebrities like Kanye West and Nicki Minaj, a key backer tells The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Darren Blanton, a frequent donor to GOP campaigns who invested in Rumble earlier this year alongside Thiel, told The Post he\u2019s been making calls to creators as the site embraces \u201cnon-political, fun stuff.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I spend my time on in media, honestly, is getting creators that are not conservative for Rumble,\u201d Blanton said. In addition to West and Minaj, Blanton said he\u2019s looking to get fashion influencers, chefs and athletes on board.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rumble pitches itself as a free speech-oriented platform that\u2019s more welcoming of a wider variety of political views than YouTube or Facebook, where certain posts can get stamped out by corporate censors. Currently, its most popular users include Donald Trump \u2014 who joined in June after being booted from Google-owned YouTube in January\u00a0 \u2014 as well as conservative pundits like Ben Shapiro, Dan Bongino and Jordan Peterson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-nypost-medium-post\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"322\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/darren-blanton.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=322\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19794164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/darren-blanton.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=644 644w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/darren-blanton.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=483 483w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/darren-blanton.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=322 322w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/darren-blanton.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=161 161w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/darren-blanton.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\"\/><figcaption>Darren Blanton (pictured) is an investor in Rumble.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">R.Umar Abbasi for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>To widen Rumble\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eal, the site is looking to recruit celebrities like West and Minaj. Blanton declined to say whether either has expressed interest in joining, but said he didn\u2019t want the site to \u201cbe dragged down by only having politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want people to come onto the site and laugh and have fun,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While Blanton has been cold-calling celebrities as part of the effort, Thiel \u2014 the billionaire PayPal co-founder whose other investments include Facebook and Palantir \u2014 doesn\u2019t appear to be involved in the outreach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t think he would cold call anybody,\u201d Blanton said of Thiel. \u201cHe\u2019s more of a C.S. Lewis than a Joel Osteen.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Toronto-based Rumble was founded in 2013 but remained relatively obscure until this year. Rumble had 129 million visits in September \u2014 a tiny fraction of YouTube\u2019s 33.7 billion visits over the same period of time, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.similarweb.com\/website\/rumble.com\/#overview\">analytics from SimilarWeb<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The site was valued at roughly $500 million during the May fundraising round that included Palantir co-founder Thiel, Blanton and a venture-capital fund\u00a0run by \u201cHillbilly Elegy\u201d author and Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/peter-thiel-j-d-vance-invest-in-rumble-video-platform-popular-on-political-right-11621447661\">according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/peter-thiel.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Peter Thiel\" class=\"wp-image-19794177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/peter-thiel.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/peter-thiel.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/peter-thiel.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel is an investor in the site Rumble that\u2019s trying to compete with YouTube.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">John Lamparski\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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