The era of ad-free messaging is coming to an end as one of the most popular messaging apps in the world, WhatsApp, announces during the Facebook Marketing Summit in the Netherlands that it will start screening advertisements on its application in 2020. What attracted people the most to the messaging app is that they can text and call their friends and family without any disruptions unlike other messaging platforms. The Facebook-owned company revealed that the texting experience will soon change for over a billion users worldwide. “WhatsApp will bring Stories Ads in its status product in 2020,” tweeted head of media at BeConnectAgency, Olivier Ponteville. WhatsApp will bring Stories Ads in its status product in 2020. #FMS19 pic.twitter.com/OI3TWMmfKj — Olivier Ponteville (@Olivier_Ptv) May 21, 2019 On both, ‘InstaStories’ and ‘Facebook Stories’, users can post photos or videos that disappear in 24 hours. ‘InstaStories’ on Instagram and ‘Facebook Stories’ on Facebook have ads that appear while the user is tapping or swiping through the videos and pictures. Similarly, the ads are expected to roll under the ‘Status’ section. This is how the ads are expected to look like: In this way, Facebook…
