Trump Media launching Truth Social streaming service, where it says creators "won't be cancelled"
Source: CBS News
Trump Media & Technology Group on Tuesday announced plans to start a streaming TV platform to air news, film and other content the company claims other media outlets refuse to show.
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Key to building a major media company will be building an audience, which in turn could convince advertisers to open their wallets. Although Trump Media doesn't disclose its user numbers, the service had an estimated 494,000 monthly active users in February, compared with 142 million for Facebook and 75 million for X (formerly known as Twitter), according to web data company Similarweb.
That may explain why Trump Media's revenue last year was $4.1 million, or about half the annual sales booked by an average single Chick-fil-A location, while it lost $58 million. Recent advertisers on Truth Social include groups like Patriots for America, a group hawking Trump hats, and USA Gear, selling American flag hoodies.
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The company added that its TV content will include "news networks, religious channels, family-friendly content including films and documentaries; and other content that has been cancelled, is at risk of cancellation, or is being suppressed on other platforms and services."
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Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-media-djt-stock-down-truth-social-streaming/
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Traurigkeit
(230 posts)Zorro
(15,748 posts)marble falls
(57,145 posts)... he's already got. What kind of a businessman competes against himself?
maxrandb
(15,345 posts)It's going to be the biggest thing since Donnie Dipshit Steaks.
Be sure to set-up Autopay when you subscribe.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)J_William_Ryan
(1,756 posts)All white TV all the time rightwing racists can enjoy TV without having to see scary, nasty minorities, no blacks or browns to spoil ones viewing pleasure.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)Musk proudly proclaimed that Twitter would have the least amount of moderation possible, when he overpaid to buy it. He soon began censoring anti-Musk content.
C_U_L8R
(45,014 posts)Taking on massive new debt while you're already in massive debt. It's the Trump way to fast bankruptcy.
TygrBright
(20,763 posts)kysrsoze
(6,022 posts)It is well on its way.
Mawspam2
(738 posts)My Pillows and My Bibles at low, low prices!
twodogsbarking
(9,784 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,780 posts)I bet I could get cancelled PDQ.
NanaCat
(1,205 posts)And never shown again? The amount of material that might qualify is exceedingly minimal to begin with. Most have chosen voluntarily not to make the material available anymore (Example: Disney and Song of the South). Others faced banning from conservative screeching, not that of liberals (Example: The lesbian wedding on Friends, or realistic views of abortion--Family Guy and Degrassi).
And that's before getting to the rights holders who will never agree to work with them.
If they have more than a few weeks' worth of material, to stream I'd be shocked.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,468 posts)to keep it alive.
GregariousGroundhog
(7,525 posts)I'll bet a soda that they cancel adult film stars.
Vinca
(50,300 posts)Wonder if they'll stream any Stormy Daniels films.
CousinIT
(9,253 posts)that reputable (or even remotely reputable) networks won't carry, even F*x.
BadGimp
(4,017 posts)makes sense after the Bible Sales scam...