Whatsapp will no longer be ad-free

The speculations are currently true. The Vice chairman Whatsapp Chris Daniels has confirmed that ads are going to be returning to the favored electronic messaging app. The ads can seem within the standing section of the electronic messaging app.

Talking to AN Indian publication, Outlook India, Daniels confirmed that,

“We are visiting be swing ads in ‘Status’. that's visiting be primary substantiation mode for the corporate furthermore as a chance for businesses to succeed in folks on WhatsApp.”

Whatsapp can now not be ad-free soon
In August 2018, speculations started creating rounds that Whatsapp can add advertisements to legitimize the app. The ads are possible to be hopped-up by Facebook’s advertising system and can facilitate acquaint users with business on WhatsApp.

Reportedly, WhatsApp can begin showing ads within the standing tab in 2019. Facebook nonheritable WhatsApp in 2014 for around $22 billion and it's the foremostvaluable acquisition of Facebook ever. It’s conjointly one in all Facebook’s major acquisitions that weren't transferral in any profit.

In its time period, before the Facebook acquisition, Whatsapp charged $1 per annum. By creating Whatsapp absolve to increase user numbers, Facebook has been staring at numerous approaches to legitimize the app. a number of these approaches enclosed the recently declared standing ad placements, commerce analytics or charging a subscription fee from users once touching a particular range of messages.

It is extremely possible WhatsApp can begin rolling out ads within the standing tab from 2019.

WhatsApp Will Stop Running On These Smartphones In 2017

After June 30, 2017, WhatsApp won’t work on millions of smartphones that are running older versions of Android, iOS, or Windows Phone. The company has taken this decision to accelerate the growth of the platform by focussing the resources on newer devices.

Earlier this year in February, it was announced that Facebook-owned instant messaging service WhatsApp will end support for some devices by the end of 2016. The team called this a tough decision that was needed to focus the resources on other devices.

The devices being talked about here are older versions of Android, Symbian OS, and others (the complete list is shared below). However, the company has decided to extend the support until June 30, 2017.

The company has updated its official blog post that recommended upgrading to a newer Android, iPhone, or Windows Phone version to continue using WhatsApp.

WhatsApp won’t work on these devices after June 30, 2017:

• Android 2.1 and Android 2.2
• Nokia S40
• Nokia Symbian S60
• BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10
• iPhone 3GS/iOS 6
• Windows Phone 7

It looks like WhatsApp is taking these steps as these older platforms hinder the growth of the app by not supporting the newer features.

“While these mobile devices have been an important part of our story, they don’t offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app’s features in the future,” the company adds in its blog post.

via fossbytes