Race to a Billion Photo Views

Many of you may have seen @AdamGT posts talking about the leaderboards being a horse race or a snakes and ladder game, so Adam here is your horse race. Here are our racers;

@DshottDennis from New Zealand

@MortenCopenhagen from Denmark

@TerryPG from Canada

Lets begin the race:

“Welcome everyone to the Race to A Billion Photo views, My name is Mike and I will be your announcer for the race.” I would like to introduce my color commentator Adam, Welcome Adam”

“Thank you Mike, I just wanted to say I am not associated with that Australian bloke Adam, I am much better looking than him”

“Ok, ummm, ok, Thanks for that Adam. I understand that there are a few local guides already who are in The Billion Club”

Adam replied . “Yes there are Mike, you can see the other 7 Local guides who have already entered the Exclusive 1 Billion club here

“Thanks Adam, the race is about to get started, before it starts let’s have a word with Terry’s trainer Jake, about his preparation for the race. Jake are you there, Jake, Come in Jake.”

“Maybe he’s gone AWOL again,” added Adam

“No I am here guys, Jake here, I was out getting Empanadas , Pizza and Meatballs for everyone, You know Mike gets hungry a lot, and yes Terry is ready for this race."

“Thanks for that info Jake and thanks for the food, The race is about to begin”

“And they are off, Morten charges into the lead followed by Dennis and then Terry and they are heading for the first turn, Morten has a strong lead.”

NB# 1st corner numbers based on Dec, Numbers Photo views : Morten 878,000, Dennis 860,000 Terry 803,000.

“ Heading to the second corner to begin the back stretch Morten has increased his lead but Terry is charging hard.

NB# 2 corner numbers based on Jan, Numbers photo views: Morten 910,000, Dennis 883,000, Terry 860,000.

“They are charging down the back stretch but Terry is slowing down to a crawl. They are heading for the 3rd corner of the racetrack. I don’t know what’s happening! Terry Has slowed to a halt”

NB# 3rd corner numbers photo views based on Feb, numbers; Morten 942,000, Dennis 905,000, Terry 860,000

“I don’t know what’s going on, I am going to see if our on track reporter Stephanie knows what’s going on? Stephanie, are you there? Do you know what’s going on?"

“Nein Mike, ich habe absolut keine Ahnung, was los first”

‘Stephanie! English please we are on the air”

“Oh sorry, I do not know what is going on, Terry is checking is equipment” replied Stephanie”

“ I know what’s going on “ said Adam in a very cross sounding Australian accent. “He forgot to update his Feb Numbers, This is why you check and enter your numbers every month.”

“Thanks Adam, Terry is back on his horse and thundering down the backstretch trying to catch up."

NB# 4th Corner turn Based on March Numbers photo views: Morten 974,000, Terry 961,000, Dennis 923,000.

“They are the final stretch heading for the finish line, racing for the finish line. It’s almost neck and neck as they get closer. Regardless these 3 are great Local guides and will all go over the finish line real soon”

Here are actual numbers

Photo Views #s December, January, February, March April

@MartinCopenhagen 878,000 910,000 942,000 974,000 ?

@DshottDennis 860,000 883,000 905,000 923,000 ?

@TerryPG 803,000 860,000 860,000 961,000 ?

NB# (Monthly total photo view numbers have been rounded off)( All numbers taken from Adam’s leaderboards here )

Who will cross the finish line first?

TO BE CONTINUED REAL SOON

“Thank you listeners we are back for the conclusion of the race, Why Google needs to take a break at the end of an exciting race I don’t know” says Mike.

"They have to figure out the actual numbers " clarifies Adam

“Thanks Adam, we are so close to finishing this race and it’s neck and neck and they are coming to the finish line, and we have a winner, Wait its so close its a photo finish. We will have to wait”.

" and we have a winner… by a nose TerryPG wins the race to 1 Billion views."

Actual Numbers as of 7.00 A.M EST March 22, 2023

Terry 1,001,530,214

Morten 997,923,861

Congrats to both, We are sure Morten will cross the finish line real soon.

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@TerryPG :horse_racing: This is a AMAZING! What a well written, creative and hilarious post! :laughing:

A true Connect masterpiece.

I must say however, commentator Adam gave such clear and concise answers… Definitely an imposter :disguised_face:

Shout out to Jake for the empanada run, I’m sure that Mike guy appreciated it! :dumpling: :grin:

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@TerryPG

This is priceless! This is super creative and I love how it educates everyone else about the leaderboards. You made me laugh a lot with your humor and relatable comments throughout the article. :heart_eyes: :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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@Mikeinthefalls Not sure I have the willpower to ever do an empanada run and actually return with food.

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@TerryPG Truly an honor to be called out as an AWOL, food fetching, photo view trainer :rofl:

Sorry I was late, I got stuck in traffic:

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Thank you @Mikeinthefalls your words are encouraging but based on your numbers you may achieve this at level 7 or 8 , thanks again and I hope Jake got the food there on time.

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Thank you so much @AZ_2021 I did try to make it funny and include a few guides who didn’t know that they were involved.

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Thanks @JustJake good to have you back, and especially your sense of humour ( quiet the rest of you he’s ok)

Hope you got the food on time.

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Haha just too funny @TerryPG . Very, very creative and I love the pics. As you know I’m normally much more verbose with my replies, however, after an awful night with a painful tooth, as I write, I’m on my way back from a dental appointment…oouch! Oh how I hate visiting the dentist !!!

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@TerryPG Love it. Very cool post.

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@TerryPG this is comedy gold!!! @Mikeinthefalls and I were in the car (I was driving) when he saw the post. I can vouch for the fact that he was in my passenger seat laughing the entire time :rofl:

Thanks for the humor, today!!

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@TerryPG fantastic writing talent! Great joyful reading to start my day.

Indeed it would be great to see you all crossing the 1b photo views line in April and it will be a close call.

Need to get to my bookie ( @AdamGT ?) and put my tenner for April figures:

#1 @TerryPG 1,017,000,000 (#8th total position! respect)

#2 @MortenCopenhagen 1,008,000,000 (#9th total position)

#3 @DshottDennis 945,000,000

So 9 people should be in the exclusive club next month (subject to maps totals refresh and all updating figures just before @AdamGT freezes the input)

I think yours truly could be coming from behind on his limping donkey to get into the exclusive list with/overtaking @DshottDennis but my fiver is that event will happen only in June.

Can’t waiting to hear your funny part 2… :joy:

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@abermans

Currently, the race to 1B photo views between @TerryPG and yours truly is super close:

As of today:

Terry: 989.475.685

Morten: 991.237.726

Why would you think Terry gets there first?

Or maybe the irregularities in updates will ensure that we cross the finish line on the very same date. That would be great. Haha.

Fingers crossed

Morten

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@MortenCopenhagen mon ami.

I was trying to guess the figures as of April fool’s day when @AdamGT grabs the April’s figures for the 1b views club update.
Being careful with my tenners and remembering those “train leaving station” questions at school :thinking:
Quick peek at previous months figures indicates @TerryPG is adding almost 1.7m views/day and you are adding just over 1m views/day.

So you should be hitting the line in about 8 days and he should be there in ~6

Considering the massive time and effort from both of you getting to this milestone, I absolutely agree it is an amazing photo finish!

p.s.
Somewhere on this planet sits one legendary @Herve_Andrieu tinkering his F1 monster :racing_car: doing 11m/day views and think we must be all horsing around :joy:

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Hi @abermans

It took me a bit more than 60,000 published photos to reach the 1M view/day goal post. At that time I knew higher goals were reachable because I could see existing local-guide billionaires.

I am now at over 190,000 published photos which gives me an average of 11M view/day currently… but I’ve been resting on my laurels for too long and I can see that Google Maps is slowly getting rid of some of my older pictures…

My F1 has been sitting in the garage for the past year as I only added 10,000 pictures in that period.

So I’m going to have to work harder to increase the numbers… and I know that my current results are also inspiring other guides who someday will beat my number of views…

@TerryPG nice race!

Always so fun to be part of the Google Local Guides community!

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Thanks @AdamGT get better man , your new nickname may be Mr. Verbose

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Thanks so much @jayasimha78 It was fun writing it.

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Thanks so much @MelTG I am glad that Mike could help me unwittingly, I so enjoyed writing it and I am so glad the responses are so positive, Thanks again you two :heart:

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Thank you @abermans and @MortenCopenhagen I am kind of agreeing with Morten that because of Googles irregular updating we may cross the line the same day, which would result in a dead heat and a very worthy finish for the both of us. A dead heat, You may want to check with your Bookie and place a bet on this. Thanks

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Thanks for chipping in here from the " legend " @Herve_Andrieu muchly appreciated and good to hear from you again .

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