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Pinterest Releases News Ads & Ecommerce Offerings at Ads Global Event

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Pinterest has announced a raft of new features at its Pinterest Presents global advertiser summit. The new additions include in-stream shopping updates, promoted Idea Pins and a fresh look to its Pinterest Trends tool. For consumer brands already advertising on Pinterest, good job. If not, maybe Pinterest’s latest feature dump might tempt you… Pinterest for …

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TikTok Partners with Canva and Vimeo

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TikTok streamlines creative processes with easy design tie-ups TikTok has partnered with Canva and Vimeo to help marketers build better short-form video content. Brands will now be able to build TikTok creative assets in Canva or Vimeo and upload it straight into TikTok Ads Manager. Since marketers will be producing the content in Canva or …

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Pinterest expands influencer marketing features

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Pinterest joins Insta, YouTube, Facebook & TikTok in Creator Commerce push Pinterest is finally flexing its social commerce muscles, offering brands and creators new opportunities, in line with Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok etc. Pinterest has announced new tools to allow marketers to partner with creators to drive sales through Idea Pins. Idea Pins launched in …

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TikTok mimics Instagram with Stories trial

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TikTok joins the Stories party, as Twitter bins its clone The war between TikTok and Instagram just got bigger. Pretty soon, we might be moving into full-on Marvel vs D.C. territory, just without the lycra. We usually bring you news of Instagram trying to do something that either clones, mimics or competes with TikTok as …

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YouTube Follows Insta & TikTok With Livestream Shopping Trials

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YouTube social commerce comes to influencer livestreams YouTube has upped the ante in the battle to create more revenue from video content. It’s recently announced a pilot test that will allow users to shop directly from livestream videos published by creators and accounts. Matt Madrigal, VP/GM of Merchant Shopping, Google “We’ve been beta-testing an integrated …

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[New Report] Post-Covid Consumer Content Trends

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Parenting, travel, work and wellness in the spotlight  As the world slowly emerges from the COVID hellscape we've been occupying for nearly two years, consumer trends and behaviours are changing.  Pinterest's latest research report aims to identify such changes based on searches on the platform. It found that many people are suffering from conflicting emotions: …

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Does Apple Hate Ads or Just Facebook Ads?

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Apple’s iOS 14.5 App Tracking Permissions Now Live It’s finally here. One of the first shots in Apple’s war on digital marketing, iOS 14.5, has dropped into devices worldwide. Masked as the update that hands power back to the little guy, one of the biggest guys of all has decided to champion the individual over …

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SMK Explains: Apple’s War On Digital Marketing

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Apple's iOS 14 Digital Marketing Armadgedon Draws Closer In November 2014, Paper Magazine ran an interview and photoshoot with Kim Kardashian that claimed to break the internet. Despite earning nearly 1% of all web browsing history in the US 24 hours after publishing the full story, Paper never came close to breaking it as completely …

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Pinterest Announces New Video, Insights & Trending Tools

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Pinterest Video Views Up 100% In 2020, While Uploads Grow 6X Last week, Pinterest hosted its first-ever Pinterest Presents summit, virtually, of course, where it gave marketers a glimpse into what 2021 and beyond would mean for the platform. The social media giant used its conference to announce several new features and spill the beans …

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Pinterest Announces Stories & Expands Ecommerce Suite

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Microsoft tempts Pinterest with $51bn buyout  Last week, The Financial Times reported that in recent months Microsoft had approached Pinterest about a potential deal to acquire the hugely popular app for $51bn. Since the start of the global health pandemic, soaring consumer usage and advertiser demand has seen Pinterest's market value increase more than 600%. …

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