“We expect the introduction of ads and status will be gradual over the course of this year and next, with low levels of expected ad supply initially.”

In context

“at the time and place they are most relevant to people. In Q2, we also began introducing ads within Feed on Threads and the Updates tab of WhatsApp, which is a separate space away from people's chats. As of May, advertisers globally can now run video and image ads to Threads users in most countries, including the United States. While ad supply remains low and Threads is not expected to be a meaningful contributor to overall impression growth in the near term, we are optimistic about the longer-term opportunity with Threads as the community and engagement grow and monetization scales. On WhatsApp, we are rolling out ads in status and channels, along with channel subscriptions in the Updates tab to help businesses reach the more than 1.5 billion daily actives who visit that part of the app. We expect the introduction of ads and status will be gradual over the course of this year and next, with low levels of expected ad supply initially. We also expect WhatsApp ads and status to earn a lower average price than Facebook or Instagram ads for the foreseeable future, due in part towards WhatsApp skew toward lower monetizing markets, and more limited information that can be used for targeting. Given this, we do not expect ads and status to be a meaningful contributor to total impressions or revenue growth for the next few years. The second part of increasing monetization efficiency is improving marketing performance. There are three areas of this work that I'll focus on today, improving our ad systems, advancing our ads products, including by building tools that assist in ads creation and evolving our ads platform to drive results that are optimized for each business' objectives. First is our ad systems where we're innovating”