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.

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

The ads will be shown to users only within WhatsApp’s “Updates” tab to separate them from people’s personal conversations.

More than a decade after it acquired WhatsApp, Meta will begin showing ads within the app.

Meta announced that it is adding ads and subscriptions to its WhatsApp messaging app in a June 16 press release. The social ...

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Meta rolls out ads on WhatsApp Status using limited data like location and language, raising privacy questions.

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

WhatsApp recently confirmed that advertising is gradually rolling out to a significant portion of its users. According to a ...

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