As Pinterest tries to double down on becoming as sticky as possible for users, it’s going to be making a pretty significant design change by adding a tab focused on who a user is following that will exist in addition to the basic discovery feed. The tab will fall on the bottom of the app’s […]
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Princeton study finds very few affiliate marketers make required disclosures on YouTube and Pinterest
Convincing humans to buy products is a massive business called marketing, and few areas of marketing are growing as fast as influencer marketing. Influencers on platforms like Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube can command prodigious fees based on their audience size and engagement: some data suggests that a single video on YouTube by a top influencer […]
View More Princeton study finds very few affiliate marketers make required disclosures on YouTube and PinterestPinterest is slowly rolling out its automated shopping ads to more marketers
Pinterest is looking to continue to increase its portfolio of ads, though sometimes that can take a little while to see the light of day — and that includes a new-ish tool called Shopping Ads that’s slowly getting opened to more developers. Getting new ad formats is important for a smaller company looking to build […]
View More Pinterest is slowly rolling out its automated shopping ads to more marketersClarifai rolls out an on-premise visual search tool for businesses
Clarifai has traditionally been known as a web-based visual search tool that developers can integrate into their services. But as more and more businesses start to get onto the service, with their own specific demands — like getting them in-house — the New York-based startup has to grow up a bit.
Today, the company is starting a few early steps to do just that. After raising $30… Read More
Pinterest hires former Square and Google exec Francoise Brougher as its first COO
Pinterest today is adding another executive to its upper c-suite with the hire of Francoise Brougher, who was most recently business lead at Square and prior to that VP of SMB global sales and operations at Google, as its first chief operating officer. Both of those previous positions are probably going to be of particular interest to Pinterest, as someone with Brougher’s experience… Read More
Pinterest will finally let you rearrange your pins
Good morning and happy Wednesday, everyone! Here is a thing that falls under Today In Very Good Things: Pinterest is going to, finally, finally, let you move pins around on your boards.
This seems really small and trivial but, really, this is one of the biggest quality of life improvements to the service that I’ve seen (and probably many others) in many months now. Pinterest has been… Read More
Learn the programming language that’s used by Airbnb and Hulu
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The world of programming is full of many different languages. If you’re new to web development, it can be hard to know which one to learn first. One of the best to start with is Ruby (and it’s add-on framework Rails.) This popular language was designed to be logical and programmer-friendly and is beloved by developers. It’s also very popular with startups because it enables rapid prototyping and has been used to build everything from Airbnb to Hulu to Kickstarter. Read more…
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Pinterest hires a new head of computer vision
As Pinterest increasingly tries to sell itself as a startup specialized in computer vision that it plugs into visual discovery, it’s continuing to pick up additional pieces to help continue to build that out. Today, the company said it is hiring former Google computer vision research lead Chuck Rosenberg. Read More
CTRL+T podcast: Diversity and its discontents
No one is down with how diversity is unfolding in Silicon Valley. Depending on how one looks at it, they’re going to have an issue with it. White men are crying foul, saying they’re being left out of these conversations and initiatives. However, actual marginalized people are, rightfully so, saying not enough is being done to diversify the industry and foster inclusion.
If you… Read More
Pinterest adds former CBS Corp. CFO Fred Reynolds to its board
Pinterest announced today it’s adding former CBS and PepsiCo exec Fred Reynolds to its board of directors. Reynolds’ background includes global financial and strategic planning as well as business analysis, the company notes. He will also serve as Pinterest’s Audit Committee Chair. Prior to joining Pinterest’s board, Reynolds spent 15 years at CBS and… Read More
Why smartphone cameras were the most important tech of 2017
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Pinterest beat hiring goals for women in engineering, missed for underrepresented minorities
Pinterest has unveiled its latest diversity report, showing progress in some areas while missing goals in others. Pinterest hit its goals for women in engineering roles but failed to reach its goal for underrepresented minorities (black, Latinx, Native American) in engineering roles. The opposite happened last year. Last year, Pinterest’s hiring rate for women in engineering roles was… Read More