YouTube has increasingly become a substantial output for political commentators, comedians anything in this new, “long form online discussion.” Dave Rubin has had many different jobs ranging from comedian, political commentator, creator of a podcast but has now combined his specialties into his biggest success: The Rubin Report. The Rubin Report is a YouTube channel that has reached over 300 million views. In 2013 he joined a leftist group that had their own YouTube called the “Young Turks”. Where he initially started his segment, “The Rubin Report” but in 2015 he severed his connection with the Young Turks. The reason for this was because of a political conversion which birthed a movement that he started called, “why I left the left.” While Rubin left the Young Turks and went independent and kept his segment “the Rubin Report”. In a short period of time the Rubin Report blew Young Turks out of the water in reference to viewership.
The Rubin Report segment is simply a 40min to 1-hour conversation with experts or well-known individuals about really anything. The most common topics are politics and religion. Dave Rubin also did a video for a world renown conservative YouTube channel that produced 11 million views. Dave Rubin is constantly improving the quality and expanding the content of his videos. Dave Rubin has accomplished so much with no signs of stopping. He traveled with one of the most famous modern-day philosophers in 2019 Jordan Peterson. Were they have visited over 1,000 cities in a little over a year, with anywhere from 3,000- 6,000, packed stadium. I have personally attended one of these lectures. Jordan Peterson does an hour-long lecture then Dave Rubin does a Q&A with Jordan Peterson.
I’m surprised that I have not heard of this political person on Youtube, and it may be because he isn’t nearly as controversial as some of the other ones that push the boundaries of Youtube’s guidelines. The Rubin Report is certainly something I intend to check out in the future. Great writing!
I love listening to Dave Rubin. He has definitely made a great name for himself – and in an impressive amount of time, no less. He is one of many YouTubers in the political sphere to make quite a name for himself in an impressive amount of time. Also, in today’s age, it is quite hard for more conservative political commentators to grow and be discovered on YouTube, so the fact that he has been able to is rather impressive.
I do love the name Rubin… mostly cause I like the sandwiches, but that’s neither here nor there. His show on YouTube I will admit I have never seen, however this will likely change soon! Based on this post he seems like my kinda guy!
I remember watching Dave Rubin when he was on the left and than some years later saw that he had switched, something that totally surprised me when listening to him. His videos are very interesting to listen to but the big thing is he left what he was comfortable in and took a huge risk and it paid off for him in the end.