{"id":932685,"date":"2025-05-21T11:34:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=932685"},"modified":"2025-05-21T11:34:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:04:57","slug":"telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-launches-50k-viral-video-contest-to-expose-whatsapps-cheap-copycat-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/21\/telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-launches-50k-viral-video-contest-to-expose-whatsapps-cheap-copycat-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram CEO Pavel Durov launches $50K viral video contest to expose WhatsApp\u2019s &#8216;cheap copycat&#8217; moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the highly competitive landscape of instant messaging platforms, Telegram, a popular messaging app founded by Pavel Durov, has initiated a bold new contest aimed at content creators. The competition offers a prize pool of $50,000 for a viral video that underscores Telegram\u2019s claim of being the original innovator in messaging technology \u2014 years ahead of its competitor WhatsApp, which Telegram labels a \u201ccheap copycat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This initiative marks Telegram\u2019s first contest designed specifically for content creators, signaling the company\u2019s increased focus on leveraging user-generated content to raise awareness about its platform\u2019s unique features and capabilities. The contest was announced on May 19, 2025, by Pavel Durov himself, and aims to counteract alleged smear campaigns against Telegram by WhatsApp. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the highly competitive landscape of instant messaging platforms, Telegram, a popular messaging app founded by Pavel Durov, has initiated a bold new contest aimed at content creators. The competition offers a prize pool of $50,000 for a viral video that underscores Telegram\u2019s claim of being the original innovator in messaging technology \u2014 years ahead of its competitor WhatsApp, which Telegram labels a \u201ccheap copycat.\u201d This initiative marks Telegram\u2019s first contest designed specifically for content creators, signaling the company\u2019s increased focus on leveraging user-generated content to raise awareness about its platform\u2019s unique features and capabilities. The contest was announced on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}