WhatsApp will soon start showing ads in the Updates tab, which includes Status and Channels. Learn more about it here.

The advertising rollout comes as Meta continues to rely heavily on ad revenue across its ecosystem. In 2025, the Menlo Park, ...

Meta is bringing advertisements to WhatsApp, marking a major shift for the globally popular messaging app. WhatsApp will now have ads on its Updates tab, Meta announced in a blog post on Monday, June ...

It took 11 years since Facebook acquired it for $19 billion, but Meta is finally bringing ads to WhatsApp, marking a major change for an app whose founders shunned advertising. Meta announced Monday ...

Now ads are going to start appearing on WhatsApp as well. Meta has made two major changes in its latest Android beta update (version 2.25.21.11), through which it is making WhatsApp a source of income ...

These ads appear among the regular status updates from your contacts. They are short, vertical clips labeled as “Sponsored”. You can view them quickly—just like other status posts—and swipe past them ...

Meta fuses WhatsApp Status ads with click-to-message, giving brands a bigger stage to spark chats and boost engagement. Meta is giving advertisers more ways to reach WhatsApp users by combining ...

At its global “Conversations” conference in Miami on Tuesday, Meta announced several updates to its advertising offerings, including centralizing the ad-creation process within Ads Manager, and ...

Meta is making billions of dollars every year from ads marketing scams and illegal products on its platform, according to a ...

Meta delivered a standout Q2 with 22% YoY revenue growth, beating forecasts despite tariff concerns and advertiser fickleness. Ad system innovations—Andrometa, GEM, and Lattice—drove higher conversion ...