GLOBAL TIMES - Jan 21 - A large number of WeChat users on Wednesday received the first ads in their app's Moments section,. The advertisements came from an account named "WeChat team," which is automatically added to users' friend list and operated by Tencent Holdings as displayed on the account label. WeChat had accumulated over 468M monthly active users by Q3 of 2014. The total income from WeChat's advertising project could reach $1.6B annually.
by Hu Weijia
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