Telegram Ads in Bangladesh — Measured CPMs, What Advertisers Run, the Crypto Prohibition and the 2026 Gambling Law

TL;DR

Bangladesh is a country option in the Telegram ad form on Euro and TON accounts alike. What we measured, and what the law says:

• Price. 0.24 TON per thousand impressions, 7.10% CTR and 0.003 TON per click on our TON accounts (2.3M impressions, 4 accounts, 22 August – 3 October 2026) — one of the lowest rows in our TON table. No Euro-account measurement yet.
• Audience. 82.8 million internet users in October 2025, 47.0% of a population of 176 million, with a median age of 26.0 (DataReportal, Digital 2026: Bangladesh). Telegram publishes no user count by country, so we quote none.
• Crypto is not permitted. Bangladesh Bank’s circular of 15 September 2022 says transactions for obtaining virtual assets or virtual currencies are not permitted, and neither is facilitating their exchange, transfer or trading (The Business Standard, 15 September 2022).
• Gambling advertising is a crime since 2026. The Gambling Prevention Act, 2026 punishes gambling advertising, sponsorship, affiliate marketing and referral campaigns with up to three years in prison or a fine of up to 5 million taka (Laws of Bangladesh, section 22).
• Languages. Bengali for the mass market, English where the channels you target are in English.

Offers with no licence question — education, e-commerce, SaaS, consumer goods and services, job and skills platforms — target Bangladesh like any other country. Complying with Bangladeshi law is the advertiser’s responsibility; this guide maps the rules and links the sources, and it is not legal advice.

Crypto and forex: what the central bank says

Bangladesh did not follow its neighbour. Pakistan moved to a licence regime with its Virtual Assets Act, 2026 (PVARA, 2026; our Pakistan guide has the details). In Bangladesh the position is the opposite:

• The 2022 circular. On 15 September 2022 Bangladesh Bank told banks, non-bank financial institutions and mobile financial service providers that exchanging, transferring or trading virtual assets is prohibited, and that such transactions are punishable under section 23(1) of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act with up to seven years in prison, a fine, or both (The Business Standard, 15 September 2022). We have found no later official text that lifts it.
• Crypto in the gambling law. The Gambling Prevention Act, 2026 has a separate offence for gambling payments, money laundering and the use of cryptocurrency in gambling (section 14), which shows how the legislator still treats the subject (Laws of Bangladesh).
• Forex. Bangladesh Bank’s long-standing position is that foreign currency may be bought and sold only through dealers and money changers it has authorised, and that forex trading by anyone else is illegal (Finance Magnates, 13 January 2012). That statement is old and we have not found a newer official one, so check the current rule with local counsel.

What that means for an ad:

1. A crypto exchange or wallet aimed at residents invites them to do what the central bank says is not permitted. No disclaimer changes that, and “P2P” or “USDT” wording describes the same activity.
2. There is no licence to cite. Unlike Pakistan, Bangladesh has no crypto licence an advertiser could hold.
3. The risk sits with the advertiser — and, under the 2022 circular, with anyone who facilitates the business. Take it to a Bangladeshi lawyer before you take it to the ad form.

Who you reach in Bangladesh

Telegram does not publish user numbers by country, and the figures that circulate for Bangladesh could not be traced to a primary source, so we quote none. What can be sourced:

• A large country that is half online. 82.8 million internet users in October 2025, 47.0% of the population; median age 26.0; 42.2% of people live in cities (DataReportal, Digital 2026: Bangladesh). Those are internet users, not Telegram users.
• Android, almost entirely. Android carried about 93% of mobile web traffic in Bangladesh in September 2026 and iOS 6% (StatCounter). That is web traffic, not Telegram’s own split, but it tells you which device to design for first.
• Bengali and English. Telegram’s ad guidelines (§4.7) say the language of the targeted channel should match the language of the ad and of the destination: Bengali creative for Bengali channels, English for English-language ones.
• No measured split. We have no data on how the Bangladeshi audience divides by interest, profession or city, and we publish no percentages for it.

What it costs — measured on our accounts

Our Bangladesh-targeted campaigns have so far run on TON accounts, so the measurement is in TON — single-country campaigns, all niches blended, 22 August – 3 October 2026:

Metric	Bangladesh, TON accounts
CPM	0.24 TON
CTR	7.10%
Cost per click	0.003 TON
Impressions	2.3M
Accounts	4

These are TON prices, not euros, and we don’t convert them: a conversion at one day’s rate would turn a measurement into a guess. Our Euro accounts have no Bangladesh-only measurement yet. By niche, affiliate and agent recruitment carried 86% of the TON impressions at 0.25 TON per thousand and a 7.76% CTR, betting and casino offers 9% at 0.20 TON, and trading robots 5% at 0.21 TON. The CPM by country guide has the full tables.

What advertisers run in Bangladesh right now

Beyond our own accounts we look at every campaign run by advertisers in Adsly Pro Panel (our own accounts excluded), 15 July – 13 October 2026. Bangladesh-only campaigns drew 3.39M impressions from five advertisers at 0.29 TON per thousand, a 5.51% CTR and 0.005 TON per click, all on TON accounts; multi-country campaigns that included Bangladesh added 0.30M.

What runs, by volume:

1. Recruitment of affiliates and agents — in Bengali and English: affiliate programmes offering CPA, RevShare or hybrid deals, payment-agent roles, remote sales jobs. Aimed at channel owners and people who want to earn online. The largest group: 2.29M impressions at 0.25 TON per thousand and a 7.08% CTR.
2. Betting and casino offers in Bengali — open an account and see a welcome bonus on the first deposit; slot bonuses in taka with free spins; rummy apps. 0.98M impressions at 0.39 TON per thousand and a 2.16% CTR.
3. Trading robots in English — automated round-the-clock trading systems with a free demo. 0.11M impressions in Bangladesh-only campaigns at 0.20 TON, plus 0.30M in multi-country campaigns.
4. Crypto offers — a small share.

Bengali carries the betting offers; English is the second language, used for trading products and recruitment.

The search data matches. Over the last twelve months Bangladesh scored 22 on Google’s worldwide index of interest in “telegram ads” — ahead of India’s 13 (Google Trends, retrieved 14 October 2026). Inside Bangladesh, “betting” was searched about five times as often as “forex trading”, and “crypto” more often than either. What Bangladeshi advertisers type after “telegram ads”: “bd”, “bangladeshi channels”, “bangladeshi group”, “price”, “rules”, “account”.

Why the money comes to Telegram: Google Ads does not accept online gambling ads for Bangladesh (Google Ads gambling policy), and the high CTR shown above makes Telegram a cheap place to test any mass-market offer.

Where to start:

• Any mass-market offer — apps, e-commerce, education, services — price your Euro account: €500 + 30% commission, 48 hours after payment.
• Trading products and signal channels — the Euro account for forex, which can link to a website as well as to Telegram.
• Betting and casino — Telegram’s guidelines prohibit gambling ads (§5.6). With us gambling runs in two formats only, on the gambling account page.

Ad copy that fits the rules

Telegram allows 160 characters per ad. The examples are for the niches that carry no licence question:

EdTech:

{Course}: learn {skill} in Bengali. {N},000 students. Certificate on completion. Pay with bKash.

E-commerce:

{Brand}: {product} delivered across Bangladesh. Cash on delivery + bKash. Free shipping over ৳{amount}.

Local fintech:

{App}: send money, pay bills, top-up — all in one. Works with bKash & Nagad.

Freelancer / skills:

Learn {skill}, earn online. {Platform}: training + client connections for Bangladeshi freelancers.

There is no example for crypto, forex or betting, on purpose: the previous section and the one on the legal line explain why.

Adsly setup for Bangladesh

1. Pick a Euro account. It can link to a website as well as to a channel, bot or Mini App, reach Russia and Ukraine, and have a declined ad escalated to a human through our direct line to Telegram moderation. A TON account links to Telegram destinations only: channels, bots and Mini Apps. Both use the same targeting form since 22 August 2026, and Bangladesh is open on both: the only countries where TON-funded ads are not served are Russia and Ukraine. Our only Bangladesh reading so far comes from TON accounts.
2. Opening. A Euro account opens in 48 hours as a World account: its campaigns can target Bangladesh or any other available country. Minimum ad budget: €500 — crypto, stocks and investing included. Payment in any cryptocurrency, no KYC. Price your Euro account →
3. Targeting. Country: Bangladesh. Language: Bengali and English as separate campaigns. Then topics or the channels your customers already follow. The form also has a Locations field that searches locations inside the selected country; which ones it offers for Bangladesh is visible in the account, and we have not measured city-level campaigns.
4. Payment methods on your side. If you sell to consumers, show on the landing page the local methods you actually accept — mobile financial services such as bKash and Nagad, or cash on delivery.
5. Frequency. Views per User: start at 1–2 (the form allows 1 to 4).
6. Timing. We have no hour-of-day data for Bangladesh, so we publish no “best hours”. Read the hourly analytics of your own campaigns.
7. Access and moderation. You get the account itself on ads.telegram.org and the Adsly Pro Panel on app.adsly.pro. Over 98% of the 13,199 campaigns we measured in September 2026 had a moderation decision within three hours; across all niches, 95.6% of reviewed ads on our Euro accounts and 86.8% on TON accounts end up approved.

Where the legal line runs

Adsly opens the account and gives you the tools. We do not verify licences, and opening an account does not approve any ad. What may be advertised to people in Bangladesh is decided by Bangladeshi law and by Telegram’s moderation, and that responsibility stays with the advertiser:

• Crypto. Not permitted by Bangladesh Bank; the 2022 circular covers facilitation as well as the transactions themselves.
• Forex. Outside the dealers Bangladesh Bank has authorised, the central bank calls it illegal. Check the current rule with local counsel.
• Guaranteed returns. Telegram’s guidelines (§5.7) list “offers of investment with guaranteed return” among prohibited financial content, whatever the product.
• Gambling and betting. The Gambling Prevention Act, 2026 (Act No. 98 of 2026, 1 July 2026) replaced the Public Gambling Act of 1867. Section 11 makes it an offence for any person, institution, media outlet, digital platform, influencer, artist, player or celebrity to run misleading promotion, promises of false profit, enticing advertising, sponsorship, affiliate marketing or referral campaigns for gambling; section 22 sets the penalty at up to three years in prison, a fine of up to 5 million taka, or both. Online gambling itself carries up to five years (section 16) and online betting up to seven (section 17) (Laws of Bangladesh). Telegram’s ad guidelines prohibit gambling ads too: §5.6 says ads must not promote “online or offline gambling, gaming, or casino-based activities involving real money, prizes, or goods of any value” (guidelines). With us gambling runs in two formats only — an official gambling account, ad budget from €25,000 + 25% commission, or a full launch on our infrastructure, ad budget from €5,000 + 30% commission — described in the gambling policy guide. Neither changes Bangladeshi law.
• Pharma and CBD. We do not take them, in any country.
• Everything else — education, e-commerce, SaaS, job and skills platforms, non-financial consumer offers — runs with Bangladesh as the target and no licence layer.

FAQ

Is crypto legal in Bangladesh in 2026?

Bangladesh Bank does not permit it. Its circular of 15 September 2022 prohibits transactions in virtual assets and virtual currencies and their facilitation, with penalties under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act. We have found no later official text that changes this.

Neighbouring countries license crypto — can I target Bangladesh with a crypto offer?

The neighbours’ laws do not travel. Pakistan created a licence regime in 2026; Bangladesh did not. An ad that invites residents of Bangladesh to buy or trade crypto promotes what the central bank has prohibited, and that risk is the advertiser’s.

What about P2P or USDT offers?

The circular speaks of virtual assets and virtual currencies and of facilitating their exchange, transfer or trading. Peer-to-peer and stablecoin wording describes the same thing.

So what does run in Bangladesh?

Anything that needs no financial licence: courses and skills platforms, e-commerce, SaaS, job boards, consumer apps and services. That is where the low measured price on our TON accounts can be used without a legal question attached.

Bengali or English creative?

Both, as separate campaigns, matched to the language of the channels you target — that is what Telegram’s guidelines expect. We have no measured data on which language performs better.

Can I advertise betting or a casino to Bangladesh?

Since 1 July 2026 gambling advertising, sponsorship, affiliate marketing and referral campaigns are an offence under the Gambling Prevention Act, 2026, with up to three years in prison. Telegram’s guidelines prohibit gambling ads as well. Neither of our gambling formats changes that.

Why is the CPM so low?

On our TON accounts Bangladesh measured 0.24 TON per thousand impressions (2.3M impressions, 4 accounts, 22 August – 3 October 2026) — one of the lowest rows in our TON table. Few advertisers bidding for a large audience is the likely reason, but that is an inference, not a measurement. We have no euro figure for Bangladesh yet.

Can I run forex ads to Bangladesh?

Bangladesh Bank has said that foreign currency may be traded only through the dealers and money changers it authorises and that other forex trading is illegal. The statement we could find is from 2012, so confirm the current position with a Bangladeshi lawyer before you target the country.

How much do Telegram ads cost in Bangladesh?

Our TON accounts measured 0.24 TON per thousand impressions at a 7.10% CTR (2.3M impressions, 22 August – 3 October 2026) — one of the lowest prices and highest click rates in our TON table. A Euro account through Adsly costs €500 of ad budget + 30% commission.

How do I advertise on Bangladeshi Telegram channels?

Open a Euro account (48 hours, no KYC, any cryptocurrency), choose Bangladesh as the country and Bengali as the language — or pick the Bangladeshi channels you want by hand. Write the ad in Bengali for Bengali channels and in English for English-language ones: Telegram requires the ad language to match the channel (§4.7).

What runs on Telegram Ads in Bangladesh right now?

Betting and casino offers in Bengali with first-deposit bonuses, recruitment of affiliates and agents, remote-job offers, English-language trading robots and some crypto. Bengali is the main language; English is used for trading products and recruitment.

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Bangladesh is one of the cheapest rows in our TON table, and its two red lines are written down: the central bank does not permit crypto, and since July 2026 gambling advertising is a crime. Everything that needs no financial licence runs as an ordinary campaign in Bengali or English. Questions about the account: @adsly_pro.