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Ads on WhatsApp: what they are and why you may never see them
It’s official, ads are coming to WhatsApp. However, depending on how you use the popular messaging app, you may never see one. Hot on the heels of the welcome addition of a proper WhatsApp iPad App, WhatsApp has confirmed it’s introducing ads to the platform alongside a couple of other features for businesses and channels
WhatsApp’s rollout of ads will change the app forever
The launch upends its founders’ original mission of creating an app with ‘No Ads! No Games! No Gimmicks!’ This week, WhatsApp did something its founders said it would never do: it’s putting advertisements inside the app. It ends WhatsApp’s decade-plus run of offering an ad-free messaging and calling experience.
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Ads in WhatsApp will be shown only in the app's Updates tab, which is used by as many as 1.5 billion people each day.
As concerns over surveillance and data harvesting mount, the secure messaging wars are heating up. Meta’s decision to ...
While Meta said ads will be globally introduced to WhatsApp’s updates tab “slowly over the next several months,” the company has now clarified to Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DCP) that they ...
WhatsApp is rolling out new ad features including a subscription model that will allow channels to offer exclusive content ...
More than a decade after it acquired WhatsApp, Meta will begin showing ads within the app.
Meta Platforms Inc. will begin showing ads inside of its WhatsApp messaging service, opening a new potential revenue stream ...
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said WhatsApp has informed them that the new ad model won’t go live in the EU until 2026.
WhatsApp now displays business ads in the Status feature, introducing a new experience that does not disrupt users' private ...
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