In the face of the dazzling success of ClubHouse (which has been valued at 4 billion dollars following a new round of financing), social media and certain platforms raced to come up with alternatives, based on the voice chatroom model.
Facebook launched Hotline: a web app that is only accessible for the moment to beta testers. Although the interface looks like ClubHouse, Hotline offers certain differences, like the chance to ask written questions. . Another notable difference to the original app, which advocates immediacy and ephemeral content, is that all discussions and sessions will be recorded, then forwarded to the creator of the session.
The communication platform Discord, from the world of gaming, has also incorporated new features to compete with ClubHouse : “Stage Channels”. This new feature, more adapted to structured events (such as round tables), allows groups to get together and address audiences.
Twitter also promptly offered its users a feature similar to ClubHouse. The social network has launched Twitter Spaces, allowing people to organize and participate in audio conferences.
We have also learnt that LinkedIn and Spotify are currently working on ClubHouse-like features that should be released shortly.