2023 has been a great year for WhatsApp with a whole list of new features that have significantly improved the entire experience offered by the chat app. Now from your own WhatsApp channel, Mark Zuckerberg announced the news who arrive for the channels.
The channels allow you to keep up to date with the latest news concerning celebrities, football teams, artists and even public services. Nail a simple way to reach millions of peopleespecially in Europe, because this application is one of the most used on mobile phones.
This new WhatsApp experience arrived last year in summer, but without many features and with fairly basic functionality. But even so, it has been used to follow celebrities or the most prestigious football teams in the world. For fans, it is a very significant experience, since even now you can hear Bad Bunny’s voice note to premiere it on his channel.
Channels now become more useful with the four news announced by the CEO of WhatsApp; who increasingly participates in all the announcements made on the chat application, although this time, instead of doing it from his Facebook account, he did it from his own channel. Here are the new features announced:
- Ability to send voice memos by channel administrators.
- Multiple administrators can be assigned to manage the channel.
- Status can be shared– Channel content can be moved to status to announce news to subscribers.
- Finally, surveys reach WhatsApp channels: you can respond to the survey.
In fact, in advertising, Zuckerberg launched a survey asking what the best game of all time is with 8 answers to choose from: Civilization, Golden Eye 007, Call of Duty, Mario Kart, GTA, Legend of Zelda, Super Mario and Street Fighter. You can even see the votes for GTA being the most voted with a bar that shows the percentage of votes it receives in the survey.
In this way, the experience is improved exponentially channels to improve platform functionality and user experience. Especially for channels that have millions of followers and require greater control.
Mark Zuckerberg was quite brief in the statement made about the update for a global arrival and according to WaInfoBeta, this update would already be available for some users in the final version of WhatsApp for Android and iOS. As with these global rollouts, new channel features will arrive in the coming days or weeks.
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