The launch upends its founders’ original mission of creating an app with ‘No Ads! No Games! No Gimmicks!’ This week, WhatsApp ...

I talked with a professor of advertising to make sense of what this means for all of us who use those social media platforms.

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.

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 ...

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

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

Ads will appear exclusively in the ‘Updates tab on WhatsApp, which includes the Status and Channels features used by about ...

The cofounders of WhatsApp resisted ads in the app for years, including after the company was acquired by Meta for $22 ...

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

Meta rolls out ads on WhatsApp Status using limited data like location and language, raising privacy questions.