The cofounders of WhatsApp resisted ads in the app for years, including after the company was acquired by Meta for $22 billion in 2014. Brian Acton and Jan Koum left the company in 2017 and 2018, ...

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, ...

Meta is bringing ads to WhatsApp for the first time. Ads appear in the Updates tab and not in chats. Meta says user information won't be sold or shared. It's official: Gone are the days of an ad-free ...

For the first time since launching in 2009, WhatsApp will now show users advertisements. The ads are “rolling out gradually,” the company said. For now, the ads will only appear on WhatsApp’s Updates ...

Meta has been hinting at bringing advertisements to its popular messaging app WhatsApp for years. Finally, WhatsApp is getting these ads. In a blog post, the company has announced that it will now ...

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. Stream Los Angeles News ...

WhatsApp will begin showing ads in its Updates tab, not in personal chats. Meta aims to boost revenue by targeting WhatsApp’s billions of users. Ads will be based on user info like location, language, ...

LONDON (AP) — WhatsApp said Monday that users will start seeing ads in parts of the app, as owner Meta Platforms moves to cultivate a new revenue stream by tapping the billions of people that use the ...