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This is coming from someone who has never used Pintrest before, but how does it make money?
by hadem 14y ago
This is coming from someone who has never used Pintrest before, but how does it make money?
- dave1619 14y agoI don't believe they're making money as of yet. But they drive a lot of traffic to eCommerce sites and they can find a way to monetize by promoting products. Just like Twitter/FB are doing sponsored posts, they can do something similar.
- Firehed 14y agoAffiliate programs and injecting ads into people's news feeds are two complete different and largely unrelated ways of monetizing. If pinterest goes the route of sponsored pins (or whatever they might be called) instead of affiliate commissions on product links, they'd be out of their minds and hopefully be laughed out of existence. This sponsored crap is the best way I've yet seen to piss off your users (and in twitter's case, alienate third-party developers, although that's because they've made some poor choices). Ads work on google because there's intent to buy (or at least learn about a product category) Samsung buying ads against the iphone5 trending topic on twitter is supposed to make me want their latest and greatest? Good luck with that. Pinterest just needs to tag links with affiliate codes whenever possible. I'd bet amazon alone could make them serious money with zero detriment to the user experience.