
Pinterest ad boss Tim Kendall is leaving the company
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com Pinterest’s president and advertising boss Tim Kendall will leave the company at the end of this year, a...

Pinterest adds custom QR-like codes for businesses, more shoppable pins
I AM NIKOM / Shutterstock.com With more than 300 million visual searches performed on Pinterest each month, the company is looking to...

Pinterest opens search ads to self-serve advertisers, adds ‘autotargeting’ option
Pinterest is opening up its search ads to all advertisers and broadening the aim of brands’ keyword-based campaigns to relevant queries...

Pinterest signs visual search & advertising deal with Target to license its Lens technology
People will be able to use Target’s app to scan items in the real world and find similar products sold by the retailer. Pinterest has...

Pinterest’s interest-based ad-targeting options swell to more than 5,000
Pinterest is increasing the number of interest-based ad-targeting options offered to advertisers from roughly 400 to more than 5,000,...

Pinterest opens self-serve version of Pin Collective branded-content program
The self-serve platform is the programmatic version of the Pin Collective program that Pinterest introduced in October 2016. As part of...

Facebook updates its shoppable Collection ads to mirror print catalogs
Facebook is updating the shoppable Collection ad format introduced in March to combine the look of a print catalog with the interactivity...

Pinterest opens up autoplay video ads to self-serve advertisers
Pinterest is officially pressing play on its autoplay video ad business. A few months after it began testing autoplay video ads,...

Pinterest’s first US ad campaign spans Times Square, Facebook, Instagram, Mic and New York Tim
Pinterest will debut its first ad campaign in the US on Tuesday. Called “What If,” the campaign is designed to get people thinking about...

Pinterest adds autoplay video ads to feeds, search results
Consider the video ads that Pinterest debuted last summer a pilot for the type it’s now premiering. Pinterest is rolling out Promoted...

Pinterest will use image recognition to target ads, including in Lens results
To target ads, Google uses search data, Amazon uses purchase data, Facebook uses social data, and now Pinterest is using photo data. Last...

Pinterest launches Propel, a hands-on support program for new advertisers
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com Pinterest has seen a massive influx of tens of thousands of advertisers leveraging the ad platform for...

Pinterest introduces Search ads with Keyword and Shopping campaigns
Pinterest introduced its anticipated Search Ads product on Wednesday. Search ads will open up ad inventory across the more than two...

Pinterest now offers ad groups to paid campaigns
Pinterest is building out a better advertising product. It’s been announced recently that Pinterest is giving advertisers more control...

Pinterest queues up autoplay video ads for new Explore tab
A few months after introducing click-to-play video ads, Pinterest is catching up with the times — and competitors like Facebook, Twitter,...

Pinterest adds measurement, data vendors to its Marketing Partners program
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com On Wednesday, Pinterest added marketing measurement and data companies to its Marketing Partners (née...

Pinterest pulls ads from Instapaper’s site, makes premium service free
Pinterest is making its first major change to Instapaper since acquiring the read-it-later service in August 2016. But it’s not the one...

Pinterest announces Pin Collective, connecting businesses with content creators
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com Marketers already have a lot on their hands, but sourcing content doesn’t necessarily have to be one of them....

How Pinterest is cracking the social commerce code
hurdle for marketers and advertisers alike. However, with over 100 million monthly active users globally, Pinterest is one channel that...
























