WhatsApp Ads To Appear In App From 2020

Facebook has confirmed that ads will be coming to WhatsApp in 2020, as part of the app’s ‘Statuses’.

The announcement came at Facebook’s annual Facebook Marketing Summit in the Netherlands, with slides showing how ads will look within the app photographed by attendee and head of media at Be Connect digital marketing agency, Olivier Ponteville.

You can see the photos for yourself in the tweet below, shared by social media commentator, Matt Navarra.

Like Instagram’s Stories feature, WhatsApp Statuses take up the entire screen when you click on them, and according to WhatsApp, allows you to “share text, photos, videos and animated GIFs that disappear after 24 hours”.

Screen-hogger

Judging from the images shared from the event, ads too will take up your entire screen as you click through your friends’ Statuses.

However, instead of showing the name of the contact who shared the Status at the top of your screen, you’ll find the name of company behind the advert.

Screen-hogger

Judging from the images shared from the event, ads too will take up your entire screen as you click through your friends’ Statuses.

However, instead of showing the name of the contact who shared the Status at the top of your screen, you’ll find the name of company behind the advert.―Tech Radar