YouTube videos now on Google maps

By Cory Bergman 

Listings on Google maps can now include YouTube video, and that should make every local media company a little worried. “Now any local business can essentially put a television ad on Google Maps,” writes TechCrunch. “But the most effective videos will be the ones that don’t seem like ads at all, but rather show the real people behind the businesses that are listed.” Screen grab of a Google Maps search for the store, “I Dream of Cake” in SF…

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