{"id":939106,"date":"2025-06-17T09:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T03:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=939106"},"modified":"2025-06-17T09:52:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T04:22:36","slug":"whatsapp-to-start-showing-ads-to-users-in-parts-of-messaging-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/17\/whatsapp-to-start-showing-ads-to-users-in-parts-of-messaging-app\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp to start showing ads to users in parts of messaging app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp said Monday that users will start seeing ads in parts of the app, as owner Meta Platforms moves to cultivate a new revenue stream by tapping the billions of people that use the messaging service. <\/p>\n<p>Advertisements will be shown only in the app&#8217;s Updates tab, which is used by as many as 1.5 billion people each day. However, they won&#8217;t appear where personal chats are located, developers said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe personal messaging experience on WhatsApp isn&#8217;t changing, and personal messages, calls and statuses are end-to-end encrypted and cannot be used to show ads,\u201d WhatsApp said in a blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp said Monday that users will start seeing ads in parts of the app, as owner Meta Platforms moves to cultivate a new revenue stream by tapping the billions of people that use the messaging service. Advertisements will be shown only in the app&#8217;s Updates tab, which is used by as many as 1.5 billion people each day. However, they won&#8217;t appear where personal chats are located, developers said. \u201cThe personal messaging experience on WhatsApp isn&#8217;t changing, and personal messages, calls and statuses are end-to-end encrypted and cannot be used to show ads,\u201d WhatsApp said in a blog post.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939106","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=939106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}