Subject: Inquiry Regarding Complimentary Gift for Google Local Guides
Dear Google Local Guides Team,
I hope you are doing well. I am an active Google Local Guide and currently at Level 6. I regularly contribute reviews, photos, and edits to help improve Google Maps for users worldwide.
I recently learned that Google has been sending complimentary gifts to Local Guides in recognition of their contributions. However, I have not received any such communication or reward despite my consistent engagement.
Could you kindly check if I am eligible for a complimentary gift? I would appreciate any details regarding this and look forward to your response.
Hi @Satya0215
Welcome to Connect, and thank you for asking.
Local Guides is a volunteer program, and we are not expecting rewards for our contributions in Google Maps. In fact our best reward is an always updated Maps, thanks to Local Guides like you and me. I do not expect rewards, even if I have 1.5 million points.
However, mostly for marketing reasons, time by time rewards are given to some Local Guides.
As you can read in Question about a Local Guides reward email? Read this first,
The key seems to be “great contents”. With this in mind I suggest you to check your contributions, in particular the photos. 20% of them are already made private By Google (visible only to you) while in the others there are several violations of the policies, especially related to duplicates and redundancy (very similar photos)