Telegram is without doubt one of the hottest messaging providers on the market. The app lately turned one of many top-5 downloaded apps of 2022 and has now crossed 700 million month-to-month lively customers. We lately heard concerning the firm in search of a strategy to generate some income and a strategy to ‘give again to its buyers’ by means of a paid program not so way back, and now the Telegram Premium subscription has been formally launched. It prices $4.99/month and comes with a bunch of unique options.
What does Telegram Premium convey to the desk?
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The paid program is not very thrilling, although it certain does provide you with entry to a few of the unique perks you could brag about. Beginning off with the unique options, Telegram says that the Premium customers will have the ability to add information which might be as much as 4 GB in measurement (reasonably than the usual 2 GB). Though all of the customers will have the ability to obtain the bigger information, together with the non-Premium customers, the paying prospects will get higher obtain speeds.
Premium subscribers additionally get to get pleasure from “Doubled Limits”. Premium customers can be a part of as much as 1,000 channels (versus the restrict of 500), create as much as 20 chat folders with as much as 200 chats every, save as much as 10 stickers and 400 favourite GIFs, and pin as much as a most of 10 chats. The Premium customers additionally get to incorporate hyperlinks in their bios.
Different options of Telegram Premium embrace entry to a library of distinctive and overly expressive reactions and stickers. There’s additionally a function that enables customers to create a transcript of voice messages simply by means of a click on, similar to Slack. Subscribing to Telegram Premium additionally provides customers a ‘particular badge’ that seems subsequent to their profile in chats and teams. And oh, the paid membership additionally removes Sponsored Messages (learn ads) from public channels.
Though it provides entry to a whole lot of options, Telegram says that its Premium subscription shouldn’t be solely about getting access to unique options, it is far more than that. The corporate says that the Premium subscription is about supporting the event of the platform and serving to the app to increase for many years to come back. The corporate says that it needs to redefine how a tech firm ought to function and the Premium program is a step in the identical course.
Why Telegram Premium is smart just for energy customers
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Despite the fact that Telegram Premium gives rather a lot, it feels that a lot of the options are sensible for energy customers. As for me, I might not take into account subscribing to the paid program for accessing 1,000 channels — I’ve barely subscribed to 10 channels and I do not understand how I might handle above 50. However, as it’s with all of the subscriptions, the use case is way broader, which is why I believe the corporate has bundled so many options, however the $4.99/month price appears a bit on the upper aspect. And as Telegram founder Durov repeatedly mentioned that the core options of the app will stay free to make use of, which needs to be adequate for many of us.
Whereas some might argue that the freemium income era mannequin has labored for Discord — the Nitro membership is producing quantity of income for the corporate — Telegram is a distinct platform. Discord’s method has all the time been to construct communities and encourage group conversations whereas Telegram took off as a peer-to-peer communication app. Though it could have dwelled into comparable issues as Discord, individuals nonetheless consider Telegram as an prompt messaging app for one-to-one conversations, whereby the customers might not discover the Premium options very helpful.
For now, Telegram Premium gives just a little worth for a weirdly excessive worth, which is why I’m skipping it proper now. Although I’d return in the long run, who is aware of. Would you subscribe to Telegram Premium? What are your ideas on it? Tell us in the feedback part beneath!
