Oh, the places you’ll go, and the places you’ve been. Show off your travels or plan a future excursion with a set of brand-new map pins. Not that you need to limit yourself to maps: Available ...

Like it or not, your Google Maps are going to have advertising pins stuck all over them. Google announced Tuesday that it will start seeding maps with “promoted pins” marking the locations of ...

The ads, called "promoted pins," will highlight restaurants and other merchants located along your way. Google has displayed text ads alongside its online maps for several years.

Advertisers can now tap into Promoted Pins on Maps as part of their Demand Gen campaigns. These pins leverage existing image assets and appear in key spots on Maps, like Browse, Directions, and ...

If you have a lot of saved places, Google Maps can look a bit unwieldy with all those pins, and the app is now testing using small dots to address that. At the moment, pins — stars, flags ...

Adding Place Pins From here, there are two ways of adding Pins on a place board. To place existing Pins on the map, click “Add” underneath a Pin.In the pop-up, type in the name of the shop ...