Clubhouse
Clubhouse is an American social audio app for iOS and Android developed by Alpha Exploration Co. that facilitates real-time, audio-only communication within virtual "rooms". Launched in March 2020 by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth, the platform is characterized by its "drop-in" nature, where users can join live discussions on a wide range of topics as either listeners or speakers. Unlike traditional social media platforms, the service focuses entirely on ephemeral voice-based interaction, lacking native features for video, text chat, or permanent public recordings. Wikipedia
Website: www.clubhouse.com
Latest news
- Jan 15: A "a trailblazing retail destination inspired by the Kelce brothers and their hit show New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce from Wondery" has been launched. Kelce Clubhouse is designed to bring together video of the podcast with merchandise opportunities, including the new book from the brothers, "No Dumb Questions".
- Mar 21, 2025: Clubhouse is still going, it turns out, and Podcasting Morning Chat uses it every day for a talkback community of podcasters (at 7a New York time), and then publishes it. Marc Ronick is the host; today's episode is all about how you keep podcasting fun.
- Sep 11, 2023: Clubhouse is evolving to being a messaging app, rather than a live chat app. The new app lets you leave voice notes to one another, a little like Anchor in 2016, perhaps?
- Apr 28, 2023: Clubhouse has made more than half of its total staff redundant. See our people section, below, for more layoffs from other companies.
- Mar 10, 2023: Reddit's own Clubhouse clone, Reddit Talk, is to close. The system will wind down on March 21. It's a casualty of the closure of a third-party tool that Reddit used for audio.
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