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> So if you're a marketer with a budget, where do you allocate it? Put it on Google or Facebook, where there are tons and tons of users where you can target very well? Or on Pinterest, which is a much smaller audience, female, lower-income, where you can't target well? It's just not as efficient."

This part is really interesting considering how other tech companies put a huge amount of effort into acquiring that exact female crowd from their mostly male mid-to-upper crowd.



"considering how other tech companies put a huge amount of effort into acquiring that exact female crowd"

Exactly this.

Pinterest caters to a niche. You can advertise to your target directly and probably spending less money

Much better than FB or Google "targeting"


ROAS numbers do not agree with you.


Do you have a quote for that? (Also might be an issue of not tailoring campaigns to Pinterest)

It seems to be getting behind Instagram, that's for sure http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/new-social-s...


The very same article we are commenting under, for one. And it's not an issue of not tailoring campagins. In fact, you are forced to make Pinterest-specific campaigns. It's an issue of inferior ad units, targeting and operations in comparison with FB and the same plus inferior monetization model in comparison with GOOG.

I don't know why you linked to that adweek article. It's about demogprahics and usage, not adspend efficiency.


Yes, however I pointed the niche potential of Pinterest, which is there regardless of their inefficiency in leveraging that, which seems to be the point of the article




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