David Fischer, Facebook's vice president of business and marketing partnerships, last month in an interview with Adweek had said that the company will show ads to the whatsapp.
As in start of year 2019 WhatsApp will show ads in the Status tab and ads in the Status will also disappear after 24 hours.
"WhatsApp does not currently run ads in Status though this represents a future goal for us, starting in 2019 and not only that, we also move slowly and carefully and provide more details before we place any Ads in Status,"A whatsapp spokeperson by Tech crunch.
He also said that they will launch a new feature that is whatsapp will be free to use app but lately it has been exploring ways to monetise itself and running ads in WhatsApp Status would be another big step by the company in this features.
A trend news is that for whatsapp is its Status has more over 450 million users, far more than the Snapchat Stories so may be it could earn help WhatsApp earn huge profits.