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.

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 ...

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

WhatsApp announced yesterday that it will now show ads from businesses through its Stories-like feature, months after adding ...

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 is rolling out ads on parts of the platform, but assures users that personal messages, calls and statuses will ...

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

WhatsApp Ads face no apparent legal pushback in terms of privacy norms, said industry experts while privacy advocates argued ...

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

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

The new ads won’t be shown in the same place as people’s private conversations, according to the tech giant that’s also ...