page_title: Ruptly
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Ruptly / History
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Протесты в Донецке
context_page_description: Ruptly GmbH is an international video news agency specializing in video on demand, based in Berlin, Germany. It is a division of the RT news network. Ruptly says that it is editorially and commercially independent, but its sole shareholder is ANO "TV-Novosti", a Russian government-funded non-profit organisation which also controls RT. During the economic crisis in December 2008, the Russian government, headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, included ANO "TV-Novosti" on its list of core organizations of strategic importance of Russia.
  Ruptly operates worldwide, serving over 1,400 clients globally. These include large media groups, broadcast networks, video bloggers and online publishers. Clients include Al Jazeera, CBS, NHK, and new wave online publishers such as LADbible.
context_section_description: Ruptly joined the German Commercial Register as a Berlin-based GmbH in July 2012, before officially launching operations on April 4, 2013. It operates as a German commercial entity with ANO TV Novosti as its principle shareholder.
  Since its inception, Ruptly has focused on providing video news content, live video-streaming and operational support to broadcasters of varying size around the world. It has since launched new pricing models to cater to smaller organizations with lower budgets including Ruptly PASS, launched in September 2018, which allows users to access unlimited video content on a subscription basis. According to Dinara Toktosunova, Ruptly’s CEO, the service is intended to “support the growth of emerging and mid-sized digital publishers" with the intention of inspiring "talented publishers to strengthen their production, experiment with new video formats, and of course grow their audiences."
  In 2019, Ruptly began launching dedicated platforms to serve its audiences in their native languages. To date this includes Ruptly Spanish, launched in summer 2019, which provides Spanish-language video, scripts and a dedicated website. Plans for an Arabic equivalent were announced earlier in 2019 .
  Ruptly has launched an in-house verification unit, which is used to check the accuracy of content acquired from independent contributors. The unit has revealed inaccuracies in multiple news stories, including a report containing inaccurate comments attributed to a senior Iranian military official. However, Ruptly also cooperated with "journalists" who explicitly collaborated with Russian FSB federal security service and presented fake news about conflict in Donbass in Ukraine
  Ruptly coverage includes much of what is covered on RT including politics, finance, sports, science, technology, entertainment and light news. The agency has reported on Russia, European policies, NSA surveillance, the German elections of 2013, the Middle East and the Syrian conflict.
  The live events that Ruptly broadcasts include elections, protests all over the world, including the Gilet Jaunes movement, which Ruptly covered live—,international talks such as P5+1, trials, and spacewalks, including the first panoramic view of the Earth, captured from the International Space Station.
  Ruptly covered the arrest of Julian Assange at the Embassy of Ecuador, London in April 2019. Ruptly was the only news agency present and had been shooting at the embassy around the clock for at least six days with a crew of five working shifts.
caption: A Ruptly satellite reporting set up
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