Google Maps could be chocked full-O-ads
I was glancing at Google Maps of Tokyo when I noticed just how many ads they have running in them! I can see icons for all sorts of chain restaurants for instance, including: McDonald’s, Baskin-Robbins, 7-Eleven, Royal Host, Mini Stop, Taco John’s, Denny’s, KFC, ampm, etc.
Now, we’ve already seen ads in Google Maps here in America, but in a much more limited deployment:
The Tokyo map ads are not clickable like the ads in the states.
What’s really different with the Tokyo map is the density of ads within the maps is much greater, and there seems to be much more variety of companies advertising. I can only see this as the likely future for Google Maps here in the US, too — more ads, from more companies.
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Posted by Chris Silver Smith of Netconcepts on 06/20/2007 | Permalink | 
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This is very interesting to see the difference between those two. We have just started working with the interactive google maps for some of our clients & it is going to be very interesting where this is at in even 6 months. Thanx for sharing!
Comment by Janna Berg | Prime — 6/20/2007 @ 1:39 pm