{"id":939028,"date":"2025-06-17T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=939028"},"modified":"2025-06-17T08:47:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T03:17:35","slug":"whatsapp-is-adding-ads-to-the-status-screen-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/17\/whatsapp-is-adding-ads-to-the-status-screen-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp is adding ads to the Status screen: Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp will finally start showing ads within the app! The widely used messaging platform with over two billion monthly active users globally is all set to introduce its most significant advertising features yet, signaling Meta\u2019s desire to monetize the messenger app. <\/p>\n<p>The decision, which was announced on June 16, 2025, will see advertisements appear within the \u2018Updates\u2019 tab, which houses both \u2018Channels\u2019 and \u2018Status\u2019 features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp will finally start showing ads within the app! The widely used messaging platform with over two billion monthly active users globally is all set to introduce its most significant advertising features yet, signaling Meta\u2019s desire to monetize the messenger app. The decision, which was announced on June 16, 2025, will see advertisements appear within the \u2018Updates\u2019 tab, which houses both \u2018Channels\u2019 and \u2018Status\u2019 features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}