ARMOUR Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Facebook, the parent company of WhatsApp, never made it clear how exactly it plans to put ads in WhatsApp but it has also never ruled out the possibility. David Fischer, Facebook's vice president of business and marketing partnerships, last month in an interview with Adweek had said that the company will figure out ways to bring ads to the chat app. It seems that it has finally figured it out. A WhatsApp spokesperson has confirmed Tech Crunch that the chat app is planning to run ads inside the Status tab of the app. To recall, 'Status' is the second tab you see in your WhatsApp window right between the 'Chats' and 'Calls' tabs. Similar to Snapchat Stories features, photos or video posted inside Status disappear after 24 hours. . "WhatsApp does not currently run ads in Status though this represents a future goal for us, starting in 2019 and not only that, we also move slowly and carefully and provide more details before we place any Ads in Status,"A whatsapp spokeperson by Tech crunch. According to WSJ, the popular chat app will start showing ads in its ‘Status’ feature from next year, much like another popular Facebook-owned property, Instagram, which shows ads in its ‘Stories’ section to generate revenues. According to the report, around 450 million people use WhatsApp Status, compared with about 400 million who use Instagram Stories. Revenues From WhatsApp Business The company has also revealed that from today, it has started charging big companies that use its service to interact with customers. As per its newly-adopted business model, the company has started charging the likes of Uber and Singapore Airlines (among others) to send their WhatsApp messages, updates and notifications to customers. Overall, the company says it has started off with around 100 companies, but expects to increase the scope and scale of the operations going forward. With a view towards monetizing its free service, WhatsApp last year had soft launched WhatsApp Business, which is aimed at corporates that want to use the popular instant messaging app to connect with their customers. Article Sources: indiatoday.in androidheadlines.com The Wall Street Journal beebom.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rekkio Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 So WhatsApp Confirms Ad-free Mod APKs are coming If it's free, you're the Ad-free Mod APK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben008 Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 never used watsapp , isn't it run by facebook? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted August 4, 2018 Administrator Share Posted August 4, 2018 Honestly, nothing wrong with them doing it. The paying for server fees - which I'm sure would be really expensive considering how much bandwidth and files it would be using and sharing, should come from ads and not from selling user information I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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