Ads are something that slowly but surely have been creeping into our lives, and they are product of the consumerist world we live in. Everywhere we look there are marketing teams trying to sell us products, however useless these may be. The latest way into our minds seems to be through the most used app on our phones: WhatsApp.
A broken “no ads” promise
WhatsApp will be including ads inside their application, despite having promised they would never. When the makers of the app launched WhatsApp, they said they wouldn’t include any ads, ever. The problem is that Facebook took it over, and now they plan on increasingly slipping in ads.
We still have some time to prepare ourselves
WhatsApp will be introducing ads from 2020 onwards. They are not immediately introducing the ads because, as they argued at the Facebook Marketing Summit that is taking place in Rotterdam (Holland), ads have already arrived to other apps that also swore they would never have advertising, like for example, Pinterest.
Bye-bye #Whatsapp, Hello @telegram
— MobileAppDaily (@mobileappdaily) May 24, 2019
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Whatsapp new ads set to launch in 2020..!! Is its end near?
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It will work like #Instagram Stories, you will be able to swipe up to go to a website associated with the brand.
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It’s not as bad as it seems
However much advertisement invading our phones might terrify us, we ought not to worry (yet). For now, our private chats will stay free of ads. They will only be included inside the WhatsApp statuses. In other words, they will start by introducing Stories Ads.
What the ads will look like
The fact that only our WhatsApp stories will be filled with ads seems to be positive: not all users make use of them. In fact, these ads will be very similar to the ads that Instagram has brought in.
They will appear in between users’ stories, and you will be able to click on them for more information, or swipe with your finger to get rid of them. However, it is worth to mention that the company has not, in fact, denied that they’re thinking about including chat ads in the future.
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