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Truth Social leans into streaming as it looks for life beyond posts
A bigger video bet aims to keep a loyal but narrow audience inside the app.
Truth Social has a devoted audience and a clear identity. What it has struggled with is giving that audience more reasons to open the app. Its answer is video: more streaming, more channels and more long-form content.
The logic is familiar. Video keeps people around longer than text, and live programming gives them a reason to come back at a set time. It also opens up new ways to sell ads and subscriptions.
Narrow but loyal
The platform's audience is smaller than the giants', but it is engaged. A streaming push is a bet on depth rather than breadth: give the people already there more to watch rather than chase everyone else.
Whether streaming can broaden that appeal is the open question. Building a video service is expensive, and the competition for viewers' evenings is fierce. Truth Social is betting its loyal base is enough to make it work.