Confirmed by facebook: whatsapp will have ads

It has been rumored for weeks that WhatsApp will officially introduce the ads in 2019. It is one of the wishes of Facebook, which seeks to monetize the messaging application in this way. It was commented that the announcements would be introduced in the states in the application. Something that until now could not be confirmed, it was not even known if ads were actually going to be introduced. But this has already been confirmed.

Confirmed by Facebook: WhatsApp will have ads

It has been the social network itself that has confirmed this news, so that these rumors that have been circulating for months, have become official.

Ads on WhatsApp

Luca Colombo, Country Manager of Facebook Italy has been in charge of confirming this news. So from next year we will have announcements on WhatsApp, as we have been commenting on these months. Without a doubt, it is a bet that has potential, if we consider that there are some 1.5 billion people who use the messaging application. So advertisers are exposed to a huge audience in it.

There is nothing decided on how advertising will be introduced on WhatsApp. At the moment it has been denied that it will be introduced in private chats, but the final decision has not yet been made. So we will have to wait for more news in this regard.

Without a doubt, it is a decision that will generate controversy among the users of the application. In the event that this advertising is introduced in an invasive way. We will see when they give more details about this decision.

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