Patrick Kulp says, “Google’s advertisers may soon figure much more prominently into the terrain of the company’s maps feature.

A new type of ad offering will let companies buy the ability to place a small logo image over their physical locations on Google Maps, the search giant announced on Tuesday. Such ads are already available in Google-owned navigation app Waze.

Other new ads within Google Maps will allow retailers to peddle in-store discounts on specific products or display an inventory search of a nearby store when users search relevant terms within Maps. If someone were to do a search for “phone charger,” for instance, a Best Buy ad may appear in the sidebar with a related coupon and an inventory search bar.

Google is a giant in the mobile ad space. The company accounted for a little more than one-third of global mobile ad spending in 2015 worth around $10 billion, according to eMarketer. That’s about double as much as its closest competitor, Facebook”.

Google is about to bombard users with more and bigger mobile ads

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