{"id":38939,"date":"2026-03-24T19:24:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=38939"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:24:38","slug":"apple-will-reportedly-start-stuffing-ads-into-the-maps-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=38939","title":{"rendered":"Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Apple is reportedly planning on inserting ads into the Maps app, <em><\/em>. An announcement could come as soon as this month, with the ads themselves appearing on iPhones this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">This will likely work similarly to ads in Google Maps and Yelp, which lets retailers and brands bid for coverage with particular search queries. I&#8217;ve personally never found the ads in Google Maps to be that annoying, so let&#8217;s hope Apple&#8217;s implementation is similar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">This potential ad revenue could seriously bolster Apple&#8217;s services business, which currently generates  for the company. This division accounts for around 25 percent of annual revenue but faces challenges in both the short-term and long-term,  .<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Apple has yet to comment on the matter. This idea has been floating around , with rumors . The company already  and , so the jump to Maps isn&#8217;t coming out of left field.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apps\/apple-will-reportedly-start-stuffing-ads-into-the-maps-app-182311634.html?src=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is reportedly planning on inserting ads into the Maps app, . An announcement could come as soon as this month, with the ads themselves&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[17072,524,156,1924,3465,1588,18895],"class_list":["post-38939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-ads","tag-app","tag-apple","tag-maps","tag-reportedly","tag-start","tag-stuffing","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}