It’s official, ads are coming to WhatsApp. However, depending on how you use the popular messaging app, you may never see one ...

The launch upends its founders’ original mission of creating an app with ‘No Ads! No Games! No Gimmicks!’ This week, WhatsApp ...

I talked with a professor of advertising to make sense of what this means for all of us who use those social media platforms.

After the tech giant announced it would begin to include ads in WhatsApp’s Updates tab, which is used by roughly 1.5 million ...

Experts say WhatsApp ads will boost access to Tier II & III audiences, with cautious optimism on ROI and privacy concerns; ...

Meta has confirmed it will introduce ads to WhatsApp, ending a long-standing “no ads” policy and marking a major shift for ...

Meta is introducing ads to WhatsApp for the first time since acquiring the app for $19 billion in 2014, according to CNBC.

Koum’s ‘no-ads’ approach is about to be dumped by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the social media app’s owner. This should be fine, unless Meta AI slyly turns promotional.

End-to-end encryption is still guaranteed, and Meta also said that if users only use the app to call or message their ...

Meta is adding three ad features to WhatsApp. This represents the company’s most significant monetization push for the messaging platform, which has become a global communication standard across ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has revealed plans to roll out advertising and subscription options on WhatsApp, ...

On Monday, June 16, 2025, Meta announced that it is rolling out this new feature over the next several months. The Big Tech giant, however, claims ads are built "in the most privacy-oriented way ...