- Telegram Founder announced pay-for-service plans.
- Monetization may start sometime in 2021.
- Messaging would remain Free of Ads or Monetisation.
The encrypted messaging app Telegram is expected to launch pay-for services in 2021 with nearly 500 million users on the app. The Founder of the company announced monetization of the service of sustain.
Recent Updates from Telegram
Telegram has introduced voice community chats that are a bit like rooms at Discord. Users will engage in always-on, group voice chats while doing other things on the app simultaneously.
The new update will allow any Telegram group to become a voice chat room, as per the business. Telegram states that while voice chats are not group calls, They will accomplish similar objectives,
Voice chats are now part of existing text chats, which operate as a continuous alternative to talk live with friends or relatives.
Telegram also has other additions and enhancements, apart from the recent community voice chat functionality. Android users can now transfer their app data to external SD cards from internal storage.
The Android version was modified with new message button animations, chat directories, among others. As per the company, animated Telegram stickers deliver 180 frame animations in less than 50 KB with infinite resolution, also allowing them to load faster than before.
Monetary Updates from Telegram
As the surging company requires at least a few hundred million dollars per year, Russian-born founder Pavel Durov said.
If Telegram monetized broad public one-to-many channels through the Ad Network, in proportion to their scale, the owners of these channels would receive free traffic, he wrote.
Another way Telegram could monetize its service is by adding extra expressive features to premium stickers, he wrote.
The artists who make stickers of this new kind will get benefits. They want millions of developers and small businesses focused on Telegram to flourish, enriching the experience of all our users.
Durov said he was not intending to sell the company. However, he had to search for other ways to find investment. He added that all Telegram resources dedicated to messaging would remain ad-free.
According to Durov, They will have countless new features to introduce and welcome billions of new users.
“Telegram will begin to generate revenue, starting next year,” Durov said in a statement on his Telegram channel.
