Ed Cotton is a Level 10 Local Guide. We’ve been tracking these stats for 11 months. So far, about 170.28M photo views have been recorded.
This Local Guide is in the top 5% of all tracked Local Guides worldwide. An extreme focus on visual content: the guide enriches the map with a gigantic collection of 23,186 photos. Delivering a strong visual performance, this Local Guide earns about 7.3K impressions for every single shot. Only 32.7K views behind Estefānio. Driven by engaging content, the view count surged by a massive 1.24M over the last month. A true Maps all-rounder: Beyond just photos, this explorer is highly engaged in other areas, such as writing reviews and answering questions.
Approx. 5.3 years remaining
Monthly increase in photo views for Ed Cotton
| Total | Ø | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | June | July | Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 11.26M | 1,251,465 | 0 | 4,274,249 | 1,172,140 | 1,130,254 | 1,095,259 | 1,152,568 | 1,111,996 | 1,111,578 | 215,138 | - | - | - |
| 2025 | 1.6M | 400,033 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 30,718 | 1,284,533 | 284,880 | 0 |
Monthly increase in uploaded photos for Ed Cotton
| Total | Ø | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | June | July | Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.3K | 147 | 0 | 896 | 116 | 9 | 29 | 2 | 146 | 55 | 66 | - | - | - |
| 2025 | 219 | 55 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 115 | 104 | 0 | 0 |
Growth & Trends
About Google Local Guides Ranking
What are Local Guides?
The Google Local Guides program is a global community of explorers who write reviews, share photos, answer questions, add or edit places, and check facts on Google Maps. Millions of people rely on these contributions to decide where to go and what to do.
Local Guides earn points for their contributions, which can help them reach higher program levels and unlock exclusive benefits along the way.
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LocalGuides-Ranking.com makes the performance of Google Maps contributions transparent. As of September 6, 2026, the dataset covers 314,600 profiles, totaling 5.36T photo views and 575.9M photos.
- Momentum: +11.16B views (24h) · +246.82B views (7 days) · 312,363 profiles updated (24h) · 22,367 new profiles (30 days)
- Milestones: 208 profiles ≥ 1 Billion views · Top: 41.61B views · 9,866 ≥ 100M · 84,190 ≥ 10M
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