If you’re anything like me, you use Google services for just about everything – email, mapping, cloud storage, searching the web and basically every other online activity. Now that smartphones are just about everywhere, people access these services while out and about, too. Mapping on a mobile device comes in very handy when lost or just looking for a place to eat. Never failing to capitalize on an opportunity to show ads to its users, Google unveiled a new kind of ads to be shown on mobile mapping apps. Read more for details on where you’ll be seeing these ads.
Google will be placing ads for local businesses on top of maps searches related to that business. These ads will pop up at the bottom of the screen after the user has searched within the Google Maps app.
Via Inside Adwords.