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 ...

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

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

WhatsApp ads are finally coming to your account and you will see them for channels and status updates from friends.

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 ...

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

For years, WhatsApp resisted the advertising model even as its parent company heavily monetised its other platforms like ...

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

Meta, the tech giant led by Mark Zuckerberg, will usher in a new era for WhatsApp by introducing in-app advertisements for ...

WhatsApp is taking a bolder step into the advertising world — but in a way it says won’t mess with your personal ...

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 ...