Have you seen those recent Globe TV commercials that featured Kim Atienza on location? I noticed that they showed a map of the Philippines and zoomed in on the locations where the “reporter” was. I suspected that Globe used Google Earth to create those zooming scenes and I only became definitely sure when they zoomed into the satellite image of an under-construction Market! Market! in Taguig in one of their commercials.

I’m just curious if Globe paid for the Google Earth Pro version when they produced the commercial because that’s the only version they could use since the commercial is, of course, a commercial use, literally and figuratively. Maybe Aileen Apolo, Google representative for the Philippines (well at least in ad marketing), can shed a light on this issue.