How does WhatsApp generate revenue?

WhatsApp currently makes money through two sources: WhatsApp for Business and WhatsApp Pay. WhatsApp also generate indirect revenue from ‘Click to WhatsApp ads’ which redirect users from Facebook to WhatsApp. Let’s have a look at both the current revenue sources of WhatsApp individually to understand them better.

Is WhatsApp a paid app?

Meta eventually removed the $1 fee and made WhatsApp a free service, with the idea that consumers would communicate with businesses through it and businesses would pick up the cost. Potential revenue for WhatsApp is estimated to be $5 billion and the average revenue per user to be $4 in 2020.

Who is telegram owner?

founder Pavel Durov
“The daily growth rate of Telegram exceeded the norm by an order of magnitude, and we welcomed over 70 million refugees from other platforms in one day,” Telegram founder Pavel Durov wrote on the platform after the Facebook outage.

How is app profit calculated?

It’s calculated by taking the amount of revenue earned on a certain day and dividing that by the number of users who used the app that day. For example, if you had 1,000 users open the app, and made $120, you would have a $0.12 ARPDAU.

How does WhatsApp make money?

So how does WhatsApp currently make money? WhatsApp makes money through two sources — the first being WhatsApp for Business API and the second Click to WhatsApp ads. The WhatsApp Business App helps businesses serve customers on WhatsApp, with provisions to create product catalogues as well as provide customer support.

How much did Facebook make from WhatsApp in 2014?

Facebook Inc. ( FB) purchased WhatsApp in February 2014 for $19 billion and according to the 2014 Facebook Form 10-Q, in the nine months preceding Sept 30, 2014, WhatsApp generated revenue of $1,289,000. 3  4  On Monday, April 30, WhatsApp co-founder and Facebook Inc. director Jan Koum announced his departure from Facebook.

What is the growth of WhatsApp?

WhatsApp is adding around a million users per day, mostly in Latin America, India and Europe. With SMS apps, growth is exponential – when one person in a social group downloads and advocates using the app, many new users download the app in order to communicate with the original person.

What is the meaning of whatsansapp?

Whatsapp was developed by Jan Koum and Brian Acton in early months of 2009 as a Status update application (hence the name Whatsapp). It was further updated to Whatsapp 2.0 which transformed it into an Instant Messaging Application and started the real story.