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News organizations can now see how their content performs on Pinterest

Jeff Sonderman — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:49:45 +0000

The image-sharing network Pinterest released a new analytics tool this week that serves up lots of data about how its users engage with your website’s content.

Here are some of the questions you can now answer pretty easily.

How many … Read more

5 ways journalists are using Pinterest

Mallary Jean Tenore — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:51:09 +0000

As the audience for Pinterest grows, so has journalists’ interest in it. News organizations are using the social networking site in creative ways and finding that it’s a place where both hard news stories and features can thrive.

Highlight feature … Read more

Arrests increase after newspaper posts criminal mugshots on Pinterest

Jeff Sonderman — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:11:35 +0000

The Buttry Diary | Pinterest | Pottstown Mercury
The Pottstown (Pa.) Mercury is using a Pinterest board of wanted-criminal mugshots to engage readers and help police make arrests. Reporter Brandie Kessler explains the project to Digital First Media’s Steve Buttry:… Read more

Is Pinterest ‘a dud’ for news publishers?

Jeff Sonderman — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:33:47 +0000

Digiday | The Motley Fool
News publishers have been experimenting with the fast-growing, image-curation network Pinterest to see what value it might deliver. Referral data aggregated by Shareaholic from 200,000 websites shows Pinterest driving 1.19 percent of visits, growing steadily … Read more

What do men want? Dudepins thinks it’s ‘the man-cave version of Pinterest’

Mallary Jean Tenore — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:47:44 +0000

One night in February, while drinking scotch and smoking cigars, Colin Brown and Kamil Szybalski had an idea. They both liked Pinterest but thought it was missing something.

“We said, ‘You know what? There’s not a lot of male-oriented content, … Read more

Pinterest analysis: PBS, USA Today engage with readers most effectively

Susanna Speier — Wed, 30 May 2012 09:29:21 +0000

Several websites, including this one, have published articles recently about how journalists are using Pinterest. But none of these offers data-based analyses that measure whether newsrooms are using Pinterest to engage effectively with readers.

As a way of … Read more

Recipes, vertical photos shared most on Pinterest

Jeff Sonderman — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:17:21 +0000

Dan Zarrella
Social media data analyst Dan Zarrella has tracked what kind of content gets “repinned” most often on Pinterest.

The lessons: Items about food (particularly recipes) and tall vertical photos seem to get the most sharing traction. So … Read more

Pinterest’s new terms make way for private sharing, API

Jeff Sonderman — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:37:58 +0000

Pinterest | Forbes
Pinterest has updated the legal policies governing its service. The terms lay groundwork for new features: private pinboards and an API. They also set strict rules against copyright violations and clarify that Pinterest will not sell uploaded content. || … Read more

As Pinterest grows visitors 52% in one month, journalism profs find news uses for it

Jeff Sonderman — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:29:02 +0000

comScore | Fortune | MindShift
The number of people visiting Pinterest exploded by 52 percent in February to 17.8 million, according to new comScore data. The curation-focused social network reached that mark faster than Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook or YouTube and … Read more

Pinterest says it’s conscious of copyright issues

Jeff Sonderman — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:51:48 +0000

Washington Post | The Next Web
Pinterest is telling content creators it does care about the potential for copyright violations as its millions of users “pin” images from all over the Web. The company notes it lets any website opt-out … Read more