- WhatsApp CEO, Jan Koum, says he has no short term plans to make money with your application.
- Remember that WhatsApp has only made money through the payment made by users to download the application.
WhatsApp has no plans yet for the monetization of the application
WhatsApp CEO, Jan Koum, does not care much about making money with your messaging application is now owned by Facebook. "Before acquiring experience with monetization, trying to cash in some countries," said Koum Re / Liz Gannes Code and in the Code / Mobile conference for Tuesday. "We have no long-term financial support of Facebook . "
Facebook took the messaging application Koum in February by 19,000 million dollars and made Koum a member of the board. Onstage other topics were discussed, including plans to bring the technology of voice calls WhatsApp in the first quarter of next year. However, as we have known, Koum has no immediate plans to make real money in WhatsApp.
"Short term, we can focus on growth and not have to do any kind of experiment with the monetization of the application," said Koum.
Koum comments echo what Facebook CEO made , Mark Zuckerberg , has said on numerous occasions, the proceeds will not be a priority for the coming years WhatsApp.
Currently, there is no advertising on WhatsApp
WhatsApp has never been such an important source of revenue and as stated in Tuesday. The only entrance is through the payment of the application download in certain countries, but the company generated only $ 10 million in revenue in 2013. These revenues come from user subscriptions, not social ads that drive more portion of Facebook's revenue. WhatsApp Koum says has "no plan" to put advertising on its application in the future, although it is likely that a product owned by Facebook , with over 600 million users is tempting to advertisers.
However, for the moment, Zuckerberg and Koum are willing to wait a while to make a move in this direction. On the Q3 conference Facebook gains on Tuesday, Zuckerberg was asking WhatsApp patience. "The products are not really interesting as a business until they are at least a billion people who use them," said the CEO of Facebook.
Koum also referred to a story that appeared last week in which a restraining order filed against him stood out almost 20 years ago by an ex-girlfriend. Koum and has apologized for the incident during last Tuesday. As noted from Re / Code , also said the technology in Silicon Valley personalities are subject to greater scrutiny because of their high social profiles and their "fame".
"It's depressing and disappointing. It's something that happened a long time ago, "he said." It should have been forgotten, but the media sometimes are more interested in things that have nothing to do with the products or technology. "
We will remain pending motions that occur by Facebook and if we finally see the inclusion of advertising as a means of income for WhatsApp. For now, as they have said the CEO of Facebook and Whatsapp, no plan that occurs.
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