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, ...

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 ...

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 messaging ...

Meta is finally bringing ads to WhatsApp, 11 years after the social media giant acquired the platform, whose founders avoided advertising. The messaging app, acquired for $19 billion by Meta, is ...

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 ...

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 ...