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#pinterest

For years, lawmakers at the state and federal levels have tried a variety of measures aimed at making kids safer on the internet, from kids-tailored design standards to age verification for individual websites. More recently, a new model has caught on in the states, and now it's gaining steam in Congress: putting the onus on app stores nationwide. The new approach to age verification orders mobile app stores to verify users' ages, then send that information to apps when users download them.

Pinterest is opening the floodgates for creators to monetize their content for the first time, permitting both the tagging of Ideas Pins with shoppable products and brand partnerships with sponsored content. The income streams are open to anyone with a business account, removing friction between the point of inspiration and a purchase decision by linking directly to in-stock items on the retailer's website.

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That question has become more pressing. During the company's third-quarter earnings announcement, it predicted a weaker holiday shopping season than expected, citing President Donald Trump's tariffs and their negative impact on the home furnishings category. As a result, Pinterest's fourth-quarter revenue is expected to come in between $1.31 billion and $1.34 billion, while analysts were estimating $1.34 billion, on average. The news sent the stock tumbling by more than 21% on Wednesday.

Pinterest has shared some new tips for marketers looking to tap into the 2026 Back-to-School period, in order to ensure that you have your plans in place ahead of the shopping season. Yes, we're talking post-holidays, Back-to-School, which still feels like a long way off. But as Pinterest notes: "On Pinterest, back-to-school planning starts as early as October. Here, people build lists, save inspiration and make shoppable plans. In fact,

Pinterest is adding a new way to nudge users towards potentially relevant products in the app, with AI-powered recommendations now being added into your Pinterest board display, highlighting items that you might like, based on your usage and saved Pin history. As you can see in these examples, Pinterest's new AI-recommended board additions will give you customized prompts for items that are similar to products that you've already saved or shown interest in.

This week, Pinterest has added a range of new content to its Pinterest Academy education resources, including video from its recent "Pinterest Presents" event, covering all of the latest announcements and updates. offers a range of courses designed to help you make the most of Pinterest for your marketing efforts, while also demonstrating your knowledge, via approved certifications that you can add to your website.

Ready, a former president of Google's Payment and Commerce group, is against any Google ad tech divestiture. Also, at Pinterest, Ready built more bridges to Google. He signed strategic deals to increase Google's targeting into Pinterest supply. Oh, and Google's search rankings update last year suddenly defaulted more recipe search traffic to Pinterest . Ready argues that a Google divestiture is risky, since the repercussions cannot be forecasted. Nor can the judge know how Google's supply-side tech might be used by a potential acquirer.

Wix merchants link their site directly to a Pinterest account from the Wix dashboard. Once connected, the store's product catalog is automatically synced, meaning all changes (including new items or updated prices) appear on Pinterest, as well. Merchants can then run targeted Pinterest ads to the platform's users. When they click on the ads, they are taken back to the merchant's Wix site for checkout.

Pinterest engineers successfully debugged a rare failure during their move to Kubernetes, emphasizing the challenges of cloud-native migrations and the need for effective debugging.

Right now is the time to start planning your holiday marketing strategy in order to ensure that you're getting the most out of your efforts.

From courtside to city streets, we're giving fans more ways to showcase their pride in the Liberty and more ways to show off who they are.

Emma Chamberlain's unique role in creating the Sea Salt Toffee Flavored Blend showcases how brands can capitalize on user-generated content for engagement.

In the initial phase of the partnership, select brands advertising on Pinterest will be able to advertise their products to Instacart first-party audience segments - built from real-world retail purchase behavior - to reach high-intent consumers with more precision.

To enhance network reliability, Pinterest adjusted its EC2 instance selection and implemented traffic shaping, resolving throttling issues that affected user engagement on key features.

Pinterest has acknowledged that many accounts were wrongly suspended due to misinterpretation of its rules regarding adult content, emphasizing their commitment to a safer platform.

Pinterest's Q1 2025 performance shows solid user growth, adding 17 million MAUs to reach 570 million, though revenue increases are more modest in its core markets.

"I had a beautiful Pinterest board with over 26,000 of the most beautiful images and my account was just permanently banned," one user posted on X.