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how much do they pay WhatsApp each month?

• nostrademons 12y ago
  How much does your average TV viewer pay NBC/CBS/ABC/Fox per month?
  • flippant 12y ago
    That is an unfair analogy. Those networks make money from advertising. WhatsApp refuses to show ads.
    • nostrademons 12y ago
      Facebook has no such compunctions, though, which may be why Whatsapp is worth significantly more to Facebook than it is to Whatsapp.
• flippant 12y ago
  Approximately 10 cents.
• sososoko 12y ago
  this reminds of a recent episode of Silicon Valley, the eccentric billionaire Hanneman says, "If you show revenue, people will ask how much, and it will never be enough, It’s not about how much you earn but what you’re worth.....” Initially i didn't see the sense in the Whatsapp acquisition, i think it was purely defensive, as well as the data FB could get their hands on.
• gdilla 12y ago
  pretty irrelevant. FB is a publicly traded company, and as such, it's pretty easy to see how much a social user is 'worth' in revenue terms. Instagram turned on ads, and so will whatsapp, perhaps. but ya, we have a pretty good understanding what social users are worth when monetized by social ads. And the value is influenced by future growth.
• stevewilhelm 12y ago
  "For all phone types, WhatsApp is free to download and try for the first year. After, you have the option of extending your subscription for $0.99 USD per year." from http://s831.us/1JbKMiG http://s831.us/1JbKMiG
  • notahacker 12y ago
    except for the non-trivial part of the user base that bought the "free messages forever" version of the app...