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Michael Litman (@mlitman)Pinterest: What is it and why should you care?
#SMM1225th October 2012
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Hello!
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Who am I? • Hello! I’m Michael Litman and I’m a Senior Social
Strategist at AnalogFolk where we make and market interactive experiences globally.
• Some of you might be nice people and read my blog at litmanlive.co.uk/blog.
• Others might follow me on Twitter as @mlitman.
• The extra special ones may even be following me on Pinterest at pinterest.com/litmanlive
• The hashtag for this talk is #SMM12. Hi mum!
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Chicken Wing Cupcake!
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Beer Cupcake!
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Peacock Cupcake
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Bacon and Egg Cupcake
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Halloween Cupcake
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Jabba The…. Cupcake
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Corn-on-the-cupcake
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But in all seriousness, there really is more to it..
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An anthropological
take on the
furore around Pinterest
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In current foraging and horticultural cultures, a large portion of daily activity revolves around finding and preparing food (e.g, Hill & Hurtado, 1996).
In modern societies, much less time is spent on food acquisition and preparation.
Modern humans still devote considerable time and effort to foraging, although the foraging context is now in the settings of shopping malls, grocery stores, and Internet sites (Hantula, 2003).
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What I’m going to cover today:
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What I’m going to cover today:• What is it?
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What I’m going to cover today:• What is it? • Why is everyone eating it?
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What I’m going to cover today:• What is it? • Why is everyone eating it?• Who is eating the most of it?
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What I’m going to cover today:• What is it? • Why is everyone eating it?• Who is eating the most of it?• Which brands are finding the right mix?
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What I’m going to cover today:• What is it? • Why is everyone eating it?• Who is eating the most of it?• Which brands are finding the right mix?• Established sites now grabbing a slice
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What I’m going to cover today:• What is it? • Why is everyone eating it?• Who is eating the most of it?• Which brands are finding the right mix?• Established sites now grabbing a slice• The icing
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What I’m going to cover today:• What is it? • Why is everyone eating it?• Who is eating the most of it?• Which brands are finding the right mix?• Established sites now grabbing a slice• The icing • Key cake-aways
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What I’m going to cover today:• What is it? • Why is everyone eating it?• Who is eating the most of it?• Which brands are finding the right mix?• Established sites now grabbing a slice• The icing • Key cake-aways (sorry)
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1/7. What Is It?
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How the idea came about…
"I was always collecting images on the web in folders on the desktop of my computer, but it wasn’t a very good system for remembering where things came from or who made them. We wanted to create a place where you can go to upload or collect things on the web and simply organize it the way you want to.”
Evan Sharp, Pinterest Designer and Co-Founder
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Put simply…
”Imagine getting to do window shopping of all the best and most creative things in the world without having to go to the mall? That’s what Pinterest is.”
Tuhin Kumar, Designer, Pulse (A personalised newspaper app)
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In more detail…• Pinterest is a content curation
platform which allows users to organize and share beautiful and interesting content they find on the web.
• Think of a bookmarking site, a social network, a gift finder and a platform for collaboration all rolled in to one.
• Content is organised in “Boards” that work as categories. Each piece of content is called a “Pin” (see right).
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But there’s a social element too…• People can ‘like’ your pins or they
can “repin” them on to their boards, comment on them and share on Facebook and Twitter.
• You can follow people and they can follow you.
• Or you can just follow a particular board of theirs rather than following them which automatically follows all their boards.
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2/7. Why Is Everyone Eating
It?
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The fastest website ever to hit 10m unique users…
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It’s got search engines worried…
Source: Shareaholic
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More time is already being spent on Pinterest than others…
Only Tumblr and
Facebook beat it in
terms of minutes
spent by users
Source: Comscore
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51% of Interbrand Top 100 Brands have a presence on it.
Source: Simply Measured
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3/7. Who Is Eating The Most
Of It?
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Well, apart from my Dad
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Gender splitHugely popular in
the US with a largely female audience
Whereas it’s more heavily weighted
with males in the UK
Source: visual.ly
AgeOlder than
you’d think. Largely 25-44 years old.
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What are they interested in?
Source: visual.ly
Design
relatedBusiness related
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UK users are more business centric
Source: visual.ly
Significantly more so when
compared to US data
30% of UK users in
highest income
bracket compared to 5% (US)
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4/7. Which Brands Are
Finding The Right Mix?
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Here’s just a few, illustrating the platforms breadth…
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Travel Channel Visual inspiration
of where to take
your next holiday…
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BurberryA powerful
illustration of what
premium imagery
can do on a visual platform
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General ElectricPinning things that
inspire them to
build, move and
cure the world
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TIME MagazineRe-inventing the
magazine itself through visual
representations of
past and present
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UNIQLO Scrolling Campaign
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Gucci Pinnable Banner Ad
#pinnablead
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Peugeot Panama Puzzle
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Kotex Personalised Gifts for Pinners
#pinneroutreach
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5/7. Established Sites Now
Grabbing A Slice
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eBay Redesign
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Facebook Introduce Collections
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AOL - “Alto” Email Service
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MySpace Is Even Coming Back
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6/7. The Icing?
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Showcase your products (and £) Pinterest is proving
to be a huge traffic
driver for online retail…
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It’s not just imagery! You can pin videos
from YouTube and Vimeo too…
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And there’s a video section on site:
So you can see what’s popular.
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Where you and
colleagues / friends
/ clients can also
pin content to the same board
Go create collaborative boards…
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Find out who has pinned your content… Insert your or
indeed any URL
after/source. You might be
surprised…
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Is there any Pinterest functionality I can add to my browser / site / blog / shop?
Add to your browser
Add to your blog
Show what’s being pinned
from your site
Add to your shop / news site
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7/7. Key cake-aways
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Key cake-aways (sorry)•Identify your position on the interest graph and start creating and sharing relevant content •Don’t forget about video and audio•Add prices to your products to create your own beautiful shopfront•Ensure your site content is pinnable•Add social technologies to enable users to share your content to Pinterest for others to discover•Use collaborative boards as ways of bringing your team or community together•Be creative with the platform (eg Uniqlo, Gucci, Kotex)
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See, it’s a piece of cake!
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Thanks for joining me today…
Questions? Questions?
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How To Get In Touch
• Follow me on Pinterest at http://www.pinterest.com/litmanlive • You should also check out http://allaboutpinterest.co.uk • I’m a Senior Social Strategist at AnalogFolk, a digital creative agency. • If you want to get in touch, then its [email protected] or @mlitman on Twitter.