Marijus Briedis, Chief Technology Officer at NordVPN, said: ‘Ads in WhatsApp aren’t just a distraction – they’re a signal of what may come next.

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 ...

WhatsApp has been talking about launching in-app advertising for many years, but today the change has finally arrived. Ads in WhatsApp are now official, here are the details of what to expect ...

Starting Monday, Meta will begin showing ads inside WhatsApp — not in your private chats, but in the app’s Updates tab, a feed that half of WhatsApp’s 3 billion month users go to each day to ...

Meta's handling of WhatsApp now stands in stark contrast to privacy-focused messaging app Signal, where the leadership has pledged "no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the ...

After years of providing free services without any bells attached, WhatsApp is now going to start showing ads on the popular chat app. To be clear, users will only see ads on the Status screen ...

Business WhatsApp to start showing ads to users in some parts of the messaging app It’s a big change for WhatsApp, whose founders vowed to keep the platform free of ads when they created it in 2009.

On Monday, WhatsApp said it would start showing ads inside its app for the first time. The promotions will appear only in an area of the app called Updates, which is used by around 1.5 billion ...

But WhatsApp had 450 million users, mostly outside the US. Founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton also hated ads. They’d spent a combined 20 years working at Yahoo!

Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, which bought WhatsApp in 2014, said Monday it would introduce ads in the app’s Updates tab, which the company said counts on 1.5 billion users daily.