{"id":307610,"date":"2019-05-27T09:36:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T07:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=307610"},"modified":"2019-05-27T09:39:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T07:39:07","slug":"whatsapp-status-adverts-coming-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/307610-whatsapp-status-adverts-coming-next-year.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp status adverts coming next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook will begin publishing adverts on WhatsApp&#8217;s status page starting next year, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Olivier_Ptv\/status\/1130800085426683904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>tweet<\/strong><\/a> by an attendee of a Facebook Marketing Summit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WhatsApp will bring Stories Ads in its status product in 2020,&#8221; the tweet said, showing the presentation which confirmed the launch date.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp vice president Chris Daniels told journalists in October 2018 that adverts within the Status feature would be the \u201cprimary monetisation mode for the company\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This latest development means that <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/270765-whatsapp-to-start-showing-adverts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>previous reports<\/strong><\/a> suggesting that adverts could come to WhatsApp as soon as 2019 appear to be incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp will join fellow Facebook-owned social media platform Instagram in running adverts through its Status feature.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook also recently <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/304846-the-big-changes-coming-to-facebook-and-whatsapp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> that it would be implementing business catalogues within WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith catalogues, businesses can showcase their goods so people can easily discover them,\u201d said Facebook.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/304846-the-big-changes-coming-to-facebook-and-whatsapp.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The big changes coming to Facebook and WhatsApp<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook will begin publishing adverts on WhatsApp&#8217;s status page starting next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":168223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[21607,161,59208,2594],"class_list":["post-307610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-adverts","tag-facebook","tag-status-ads","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307640,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307610\/revisions\/307640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}