WhatsApp said ads will be targeted to users based on information like the user’s age, the country or city where they’re ...

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

Send news tips to: [email protected] Betrayal or inevitability? Meta is putting ads in WhatsApp. More than a decade ...

Ads will be shown only to WhatsApp users in the Updates tab, which is used by as many as 1.5 billion people each day.

It’s a big change for the company, whose founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton vowed to keep the platform free of ads when they created it in 2009. Facebook purchased WhatsApp in 2014 and the pair ...

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WhatsApp has over the years had a strong stance against advertising, with founder CEO Jan Koum highlighting how the company did not want to become “just another ad clearinghouse”. In fact, he was ...

This move represents a departure from WhatsApp’s initial ad-free pledge made by its founders, Jan Koum and Brian Acton, when the platform was established in 2009. Go deeper: After acquiring WhatsApp ...

This marks the first time ads are appearing directly on WhatsApp, whose founders previously resisted them. Jan Koum and Brian Acton were outspoken critics of advertising and eventually left Facebook ...