Yandex.Plus Hits 8 Million Subscribers

In an article by Evgeniya Evseeva on VC.RU, the details of a conversation with Tigran Khudaverdyan, and the highlights we can take from it.

On the call, Khudaverdyan discussed Plus as a product, and disclosed that:

“Plus” is one of the strategic components of the company’s ecosystem.

According to the call report, the number of subscribers grew by 152% and reached 6.8 million users at the end of the 2020.

At the beginning of 2021, the total number of subscribers totalled 8 million, of which more than 1 million came from Yandex.Taxi. In addition to Russia, Yandex.Plus is available in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Israel.

Yandex.Plus subscribers receive a number of benefits, inlcuding cashback points for orders in Taxi, Drive, Food and Shop and other services, and free delivery on orders (depending on value) in Market.

A percentage of the order amount is also returned to the user’s account in the form of points, which can be spent to pay for new orders.

Source: vc.ru

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