Telegram to launch Sponsored Messages for promoting bots and channels: Privacy, user data safety and everything to know

Sponsored Messages may also have a restriction of 160 characters of textual content with out media or exterior hyperlinks.

Telegram: Sponsored Messages are set to be launched on Telegram! On Thursday, Telegram Founder and CEO Pavel Durov introduced that Sponsored Messages are being added on the messaging platform to permit anybody to advertise their bots and channels. Whereas the characteristic is being examined for the time being, the announcement implies that the characteristic’s inclusion within the app is imminent. The Sponsored Messages could be seen in Telegram’s public channels having upwards of 1,000 subscribers. When you bear in mind, just a few months in the past, Durov had stated that they don’t want to compromise the platform by promoting it to a tech big, in a fairly open dig at WhatsApp, and had stated that they had been as a substitute taking a look at choices that will assist the platform generate extra revenues. Nicely, this appears to be one among them.

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Mainly, with this, anybody would be capable to pay and promote their bots or channels on different public channels having a lot of subscribers. The subsequent query, then, after all is what the proprietor of the opposite public channels get in change for having a sponsored message broadcast to their subscribers? Nicely, Telegram has stated that when the characteristic has been rolled out, the fee acquired from the characteristic would first be used to cowl the essential prices for the infrastructure. After that, the advert income can be shared by the platform with the admins of the channels during which sponsored messages are displayed.

Nevertheless, you don’t want to fret as a result of chat lists, personal chats or teams won’t get these Sponsored Messages. Chats in Telegram may also not get adverts, the CEO has confirmed. “

The corporate may also not be exhibiting Sponsored Messages on the premise of consumer information, which implies that this won’t be just like the focused adverts mannequin of Meta (or previously, Fb). Then how will Telegram be certain that the precise folks obtain the Sponsored Messages? “Sponsored messages on Telegram are proven solely in giant public one-to-many channels with 1000+ members – and are primarily based solely on the subject of the general public channels during which they’re proven. Because of this no consumer information is mined or analyzed to show them,” Durov wrote in his public channel on Telegram.

Furthermore, the Sponsored Messages may also have a restriction of 160 characters of textual content with out media or exterior hyperlinks. The variety of Sponsored Messages in a channel has been capped at one and that message will solely present up after the consumer has completed studying any new posts that the channel could have.

He additionally brazenly focused Meta’s tendencies to govern consumer information for adverts, and added that if WhatsApp had been to make the same transfer, it could misuse consumer information and violate their privateness to focus on the adverts. Alternatively, Telegram, he repeatedly emphasised, would maintain consumer privateness intact and never compromise or misuse consumer information in any method to make this characteristic work.