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Pinning for PR: 3 successful Pinterest campaigns

Pinning for PR: 3 successful Pinterest campaigns | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

With each passing day, PR is being nudged away from the familiar comfort of text-based communications to more visual forms of communications, especially in digital campaigns. 

Today, among other platforms, Pinterest must be part of your social PR campaign strategy, especially if your target audience is female. It’s easy to dismiss Pinterest as a site where women just share pictures of fashion and food, but do so at your peril. Consider this: 

• One-third of the women in the U.S. use Pinterest, according to Pew Research Center’sSocial Media Update 2013.
• 85 percent of the estimated 40.1 million monthly Pinterest users in the United States in 2014 are female.
• New data from social sharing service ShareThis shows that for the first time, Pinterest outpaced email to become the third-most popular sharing channel in the fourth quarter of 2013.
• Pinterest is the channel of choice for moms, who share three times more than the average user, according to MarketingLand.com.


Still need to be convinced? Here are three examples of creative and effective PR campaigns using Pinterest as a central communications hub: 

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Pinterest and PR can be a winning combination when integrated as these three successful campaigns show.

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Would You Rather be Social or Interesting? - Jeffbullas's Blog

Would You Rather be Social or Interesting? - Jeffbullas's Blog | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

The “Interest Graph” is not the “Social Graph”. But what does that mean and why should you care?


Despite the rapid ascent of Interest-based platforms, such as Pinterest, Sulia, WeHeartIt and Wanelo, we rarely see dialogue about the Interest Graph except in a Social context. However, The Interest Graph and Social Graph are two fundamentally different infrastructures with different underlying assumptions for marketers.


Sure, they often overlap, but it’s time we come to appreciate their differences, so that we can be more effective marketers on a social web driven by people’s passions and interests.So should you be social or interesting?...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Daniel Maloney asks a provocative question and offers some interesting answers. His comparison between the  "interest graph" and "social graph" are invaluable for PR, marketing and content pros. Recommended reading 9 / 10

Gas caroline's curator insight, March 14, 2014 9:02 AM

Point de vue intéressant avec une réelle différence entre l'Interest graph (=contenus postés sans commentaires) et le Social graph (=création de dialogues)

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With the launch of paid pins, Pinterest's reckoning moment has arrived

With the launch of paid pins, Pinterest's reckoning moment has arrived | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

After what can only be described as “forever” in tech years, not to mention raising half a billion in venture capital, Pinterest is finally looking to to monetize. In case you were hiding under some sort of rock and missed the big news, the company has rolled out paid advertising pins.


In a classic effort to downplay the importance of this new revenue generator to the future of its business, Pinterest chose to roll out the news via a blog post and a few last minute emails to reporters. This is a stark contrast to the h’ordeuvres filled whoop-de-doo that the company normally hosts at its Carnival-themed headquarters when announcing important news.


Each subsequent evening at Pinterest HQ failed to deliver a promoted pins announcement, but rather amounted to big PR pushes for Place Pins and then Guided Search. But now, when Pinterest finally has significant news for its business to share, it keeps the fanfare to a minimum....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Curious way to announce that you finally have revenue isn't it? What's up with Pinterest?

Laura Brown's comment, May 15, 2014 12:17 PM
Likely the paid pins will be added to user accounts whether they like it or not. So Pinterest might be hoping to start quietly and not have it get a lot of media attention in order to keep account holders from having a fit about it.
Jeff Domansky's comment, May 15, 2014 1:50 PM
Laura, thx for comment. We all know what happens when you're not transparent. ;-)