Meta официально запускает рекламу в WhatsApp! Впервые за 15 лет мессенджер, который изначально гордился отсутствием рекламы, добавит её в раздел «Статусы» (аналог Stories). Об этом сообщили в пресс-релизе 17 июня. Рекламные посты от бизнес-аккаунтов будут появляться рядом с обновлениями друзей. 💼👀 Хотя основная переписка пока останется чистой, это серьезный шаг в монетизации платформы с 2+ млрд пользователей. Готовьтесь к первому баннеру в Status! 👇 Что думаете?
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- WhatsApp is officially getting ads
- Meta has hinted at bringing ads to WhatsApp for years, and now they’re finally here.
- Meta has hinted at bringing ads to WhatsApp for years, and now they’re finally here.
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- Emma Roth
- Jun 16, 2025, 2:20 PM UTC
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- Meta is also adding sponsored channels and subscriptions
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- Emma Roth
- is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.
- WhatsApp is rolling out ads. In an update on Monday,
- Meta announced
- that it will now show ads from businesses through its Stories-like status feature.
- The status feature lives within WhatsApp’s “Updates” tab and allows users to share disappearing text, photo, voice notes, or video messages. But now, you might see sponsored content in addition to the updates shared by friends or family members.
- Meta had been considering bringing advertising to WhatsApp
- for years now
- , an idea its founders
- were entirely against
- . Though Meta
- reversed plans to roll out in-app ads
- in 2020, WhatsApp head
- Will Cathcart confirmed
- in 2023 that the company was still working on an implementation. Last year,
- Meta made
- more than $160 billion in ad revenue.
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- Meta says it will tailor the ads to your interests by using “limited” information, including your country or city, language, the channels you follow, and how you interact with ads on the platform. You can also change your ad preferences from Meta’s Accounts Center.
- “We’ve been talking about our plans to build a business that does not interrupt your personal chats for years and we believe the Updates tab is the right place for these new features to work,” Meta writes in its update. The company says it “will never sell or share your phone numbers to advertisers,” adding that it won’t use your messages, calls, or groups to inform its ads.
- This isn’t the only change Meta is making to WhatsApp. The company will also start showing promoted channels when you click on the
- Explore
- button to find new ones to follow. It’s also rolling out the ability to subscribe to channels to “receive exclusive updates” as well.
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