{"id":33840,"date":"2020-12-23T11:19:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T09:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=33840"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:53:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:53:53","slug":"pavel-durov-announces-telegrams-monetisation-will-begin-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/pavel-durov-announces-telegrams-monetisation-will-begin-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavel Durov announces Telegram\u2019s monetisation will begin next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From next year Telegram will begin monetisation, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/durov_russia\/29\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the founder of the messenger Pavel Durov.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said that for many years he funded the company with his own money, but as the user base grew, costs also rose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to him, in such cases the company has two options \u2014 &#8220;to start earning money to cover costs or to sell to a larger player&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We are not going to sell the company, as the WhatsApp founders did. Telegram is needed by the world as an independent project where users&#8217; rights are respected and high-quality service is provided,&#8221; wrote Durov.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said that Telegram monetisation would begin next year, but &#8220;most users will hardly notice any significant changes&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All current Telegram services will remain free. Paid features will be introduced for business teams and users with expanded needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Telegram will also offer its own advertising platform for channels, &#8220;which will provide users with comfort and privacy&#8221;, and will allow companies to cover server and traffic costs, wrote Durov.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;All Telegram services related to messaging will remain free of advertising. We believe that advertising in private and group chats is unacceptable,&#8221; he noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, Pavel Durov said that <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/pavel-durov-explains-refusal-to-sell-telegram\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">twice declined<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> offers to sell a stake in the messenger amid the threat of its being blocked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From next year Telegram will begin monetisation, according to the messenger&#8217;s founder Pavel Durov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1423,723],"class_list":["post-33840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-pavel-durov","tag-telegram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"35","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33842,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33840\/revisions\/33842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}