Will You Pay To Stop Ads From Appearing On Your BBM?

If you are on BBM, you might have received a contact invitation from a certain popular satellite TV at one point or the other. Also, you might have noticed that a couple of company ads have found a way to your supposed ‘discreet’ timeline – that is your feeds. How annoying it must be to think it’s a friend request only to discover it’s another unwanted brand crashing your party. Surely, it has crossed your mind to get rid of these constant pop ups.

Well, there is a solution. Blackberry has presented two rather interesting options in form of two subscription packages.

The first, which is referred to as No Ads is a BBM feature that disallows all advertisements and sponsored invites on your BBM, for just $0.99 (N197.109) per month.

Source: Blackberry’s Blog

Second is the Custom PIN subscription which enables you to create your own PIN that is usable on any Android or iOS device; it even comes with a bonus- you get an ‘avatar badge’ to show the whole world your premium status! This one costs $1.99 (N396.209) per month, only.

Source: Blackberry’s Blog

BBM Users have been recorded to be more loyal than users of about 22 social network sites such as Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter – in terms of user retention. Consequently, there is a good probability that BBM users may pay these subscription fees without complaint.

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