The Izvestia channel has become available in the MAX messenger.

The MAX messenger has started testing channels, including Izvestia, REN TV and Channel Five. This was announced on July 14 by the press service of the digital service.

You can subscribe to them at the following links: Izvestia, REN TV and Channel Five. Also, as part of the testing, channels of stars and bloggers appeared there, including writer Sergey Minaev, singer Klava Coca and designer Artemy Lebedev. The ability to create channels will appear after testing is completed.

Users can subscribe to channels, set reactions, set up notifications, pin channels to the chat list and merge them into folders. In the near future, there will be a view counter and the ability to leave comments under posts, as well as set up a separate channel chat and visual design.

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On June 30, the service's press service announced that the first million users had signed up for the Russian digital platform MAX. It is noted that of the total number of users, the mobile version of Android accounts for 75%, and iOS - 23%. It is also reported that most users are in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan and Krasnodar.