It ends WhatsApp’s decade-plus run of offering an ad-free messaging and calling experience. Meta, which acquired WhatsApp in ...

You wake up in the morning and, first thing, you open your weather app. You close that pesky ad that opens first and check the forecast. You like your weather app, which shows hourly weather forecasts ...

Elon Musk’s social media app X has been placing advertisements in the search results for at least 20 hashtags used to promote racist and antisemitic extremism, including #whitepower, according ...

On Monday, Apple quietly updated its App Store rules to require that iOS developers use in-app purchases — and thereby give Apple 30 percent — on “sales of ‘boosts’ for posts in a social ...

WhatsApp, however, may not be able to charge as much for ads as Facebook and Instagram, which targets them by collecting vast amounts of user data, said Minda Smiley, a senior social media analyst ...

Threads, Twitter and the saturation of social media 04:15. Twitter owner Elon Musk said the social media company's advertising revenue has plunged roughly 50%, highlighting his struggle to revive ...

Post Apple’s rollout of App Tracking Transparency features in 2021, social networks have seen a massive negative impact on ad revenues. What’s more, bets like metaverse haven’t taken off in ...

Social media refers to digital platforms that allow user interaction and sharing user-generated content through an online app for networking purposes ...

More than a decade after it acquired WhatsApp, Meta will begin showing ads within the app.