Tech - News | WhatsApp Confirm's Status Ads Coming In 2020

Dinesh Vishwakarma

Ads are coming to WhatsApp, finally, and the intrusion into the popular ad-free mobile messaging platform would begin from Status page.[br][br][img src="/storage/emulated/0/Download/69493300.cms"][br][br][br]At a Facebook Marketing Summit in the Netherlands, Facebook revealed a 2020 launch date for WhatsApp Status ads.[br][br]"WhatsApp will bring Stories Ads in its status product in 2020," tweeted Olivier[a href="https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tag/olivier+ponteville"] [/a]Ponteville who attended the conference this week.[br][br]The news first came in October when media reported that the Facebook-owned messaging app is planning to allow advertisements to be displayed in the "Status" section of the app.[br][br]WhatsApp's "Status" feature allows users to share text, photos, videos and animated GIFs that disappear after 24 hours.[br][br]"WhatsApp beta for Android 2.18.305: WhatsApp is implementing in this version ads for Status. They are not visible yet and the feature will be enabled in future," fan-site WABetaInfo that tests Whatsapp features early tweeted.[br][br]The advertisements would be powered by Facebook's native advertising system and would be aimed at helping users understand and participate in businesses using the messaging app.[br][br]Facebook CEO Mark Zukerberg's goal to monetise WhatsApp has forced the social media messaging service's co-founders to leave the company.[br][br]One of them, Brian Acton, told Forbes recently that Zuckerberg was in a rush to make money from the messaging service and undermine elements of its encryption technology. "Targeted advertising is what makes me unhappy," Acton said.[br][br][br]Source[br][br][br]

irfan_kolkata

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