A PlugRush alternative for when the goal is a Telegram channel

This comparison is written by TeleBoost, which sells members for adult Telegram channels, so read it as one side of the table. What it says about PlugRush comes from PlugRush’s own public pages, read on 3 October 2026 and listed at the bottom. We do not quote PlugRush’s prices: they change, and a stale figure would be our mistake, not theirs.

What PlugRush is

PlugRush is a self-serve network owned by JMT Nordic AS, a Norwegian company, where advertisers buy traffic, publishers sell it, and publishers can also trade it with each other. It carries both adult and mainstream traffic in four formats: push notifications, which it calls its most popular, popunders, display banners and native ads, each split into desktop and mobile.

Buying is CPC bidding: you pay for a click or a visitor delivered to your landing page, and your bid sets your win rate. Accounts are prepaid, and a compliance team reviews every campaign, usually within an hour on business days.

Where PlugRush is strong

• Fast feedback. Review in about an hour, a win-rate figure on every bid, and automated rules that cut or raise bids on sources, countries, carriers, browsers or languages from your conversion data.
• Tracking built in. S2S postback with click IDs, an API, pixel retargeting, user capping and daily budgets.
• Bot filtering. PlugRush says it filters bots, scanners and other automated traffic as it arrives.
• Creator offers. It publishes its own guide to buying OnlyFans traffic, so creator funnels are a use it expects.

What changes when the destination is a Telegram channel

PlugRush’s terms let advertisers promote apps, goods, offers, services and websites, and make the advertiser responsible for the landing page and its content; its guidelines require 2257 compliance on landing pages, and changing a live campaign’s URL sends it back to review. Telegram is not mentioned as a destination either way. New advertisers can also be refused when the destination website has no traffic history yet, which PlugRush explains as protection against campaigns that redirect to malware.

With push and pop traffic the visitor arrives from a notification or a new tab and still has to open Telegram and join: your bid buys the first step only. Judge it on cost per join, not cost per click.

PlugRush and TeleBoost side by side

Compare them on cost without trusting either of us

Give every source its own named invite link: open your channel’s profile, then Edit, Invite Links, create a new link and name it after the source. Telegram lets admins see who joined through each link (Telegram’s own note on named links). Send PlugRush traffic through one of them and divide what you spent by the joins it produced. TeleBoost joins are counted by our bot from inside the channel, so the same division works for us.

Then look again a week later. The number that decides is not the join count but how many of those people are still there and opening your posts, and that you can read in your own channel statistics without asking either of us.

When to keep using PlugRush

Keep PlugRush when you need a lot of inexpensive clicks quickly to find out which landing page or offer works. Its rules and postback loop are good at that, and we have nothing equivalent: we deliver members, not clicks you can optimise.

If your funnel ends in a Telegram channel, try both on a small budget and compare cost per member after a week, with a named invite link on the PlugRush traffic.

Test it with 100 members for €10

Our public counter at /live/ shows 96,049 net members delivered since 16 June 2026, and 35 completed campaigns. Getting there took 329,280 joins, because most people who join during delivery leave again within days: that replacement is the part we pay for, and the reason we never quote the bigger number as if it were the result (read on 3 October 2026).

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