
Pinterest opens up wide-format Promoted Videos to all advertisers
Pinterest is rolling out wide-format Promoted Videos to all advertisers via its self-serve Ads Manager tool. The ad units are four times...

Pinterest tests wide-format Promoted Videos; steps up efforts to court entertainment brands
Pinterest is testing a new wider-framed Promoted Video ad format that will display at maximum width across both columns in a user’s home...

Pinterest will let people use its image-recognizing Lens feature to augment text searches
A year after its debut, Pinterest’s Lens feature has become so capable of parsing what an image contains and what a person is searching...

Pinterest rolls out chatbot, native features for Facebook’s Messenger
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com Pinterest is making a home for itself on Facebook’s Messenger. On Tuesday, the social-cum-search platform...

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 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’s object-recognizing Lens feature now scans QR codes, too
Welp, QR codes are a thing again. Snapchat’s spin on the QR code has popularized the bar code’s ugly offspring to the point that...

Pinterest gets a new venue for its search ads with Samsung Galaxy S8 integration of Lens
Samsung, looking to make its new Galaxy S8/S8 Plus as uniquely intelligent as possible, has integrated Pinterest’s visual search...

Pinterest’s Lens app turns your phone’s camera into a search bar
Pinterest is bringing search to the real world. On Wednesday, the social-network-slash-search-engine introduced Lens, a mobile app that...

Pinterest acquires mobile ad tech talent, but not the tech, because content
Pinterest has acquired the team — but not the technology or any other asset — from mobile ad-tech company URX, the social network/visual...

Pinterest Is Rolling Out Buyable Pins For Android Users
Pinterest is bringing Buyable Pins to Android. Pinterest launched its long-anticipated e-commerce feature in June exclusively on the...

Pinterest Takes E-Commerce To Next Level With Launch Of Buyable Pins On iPads & iPhones
According to the announcement, the buyable Pins are now appearing in home feeds, boards and search results, and include the item’s cost...

Pinterest Will Set Ads In Motion With Cinematic Pins
Pinterest believes it has found a better way for advertisers to capture consumer attention with motion. Called Cinematic Pins, announced...

How To Use Twitter & Instagram On The Apple Watch; Facebook Is MIA
Twitter On Apple Watch Of all the third-party Apple Watch apps out there, Twitter is the most favored. It has the best positioning of any...

Smartphone Penetration Grows To 76 Percent In US — Report
The latest comScore smartphone data have arrived but not much has changed. The two noteworthy items in this month’s report are an...

Apple iOS App Pins Have Arrived On Pinterest For iPhone & iPad
Pinterest has allowed users to curate the best content from around the web in an organized fashion. As of today, it’s not just content...

Survey: Social Media To Influence Half Of Holiday Shoppers
According to a new holiday shopping survey sponsored by e-commerce platform MarketLive (carried out by the e-tailing Group) mobile and...

New In iOS 8: Sharing Is Much Easier To Pinterest, HootSuite & Other Apps
It’s long been an iPhone and iPod pain point. Sharing from a mobile browser to social media networks other than Facebook and Twitter has...

Pinterest Launches New Mobile Website For Its Growing Base Of Mobile Users
According to the announcement, the new site now offers, “A cleaner design and the same features (like more useful pins and related...
























