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Re: Pinterest to get ads

#41
post #10

Pinterest, I'm not a direct user, but my wife is, and it's had a better impact on my life, even indirectly, than any of the other social networks. It's our cookbook, craftbook, and misc idea book. I am willing to give you money. Probably far more than you'll get from serving us ads. Are you willing to take it?

Premium accounts could work for Pinterest. I think ads will make them a lot more, their model is well suited towards ads. Not to say they couldn't do both.

Re: Pinterest to get ads

#43
post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

when you write Adsense, do you mean Adwords ?

No, I mean Adsense. Adwords is intent-driven search. Adsense is discovery. Pinterest is much more comparable to Adsense.

I thought AdWords was the interface for making ads for AdSense. The logo even says "Google AdWords." And the ads I made look a lot like AdSense.

Re: Pinterest to get ads

#44
post #41
post #10

Pinterest, I'm not a direct user, but my wife is, and it's had a better impact on my life, even indirectly, than any of the other social networks. It's our cookbook, craftbook, and misc idea book. I am willing to give you money. Probably far more than you'll get from serving us ads. Are you willing to take it?

Premium accounts could work for Pinterest. I think ads will make them a lot more, their model is well suited towards ads. Not to say they couldn't do both.

Yes, I expect ads will make them more on average, but they could certainly make more from me (well... my household) if we could just pay them to remove the ads, and perhaps have some other premium features.

My wife is a normal computer user. A savvy one, but still a normal one. She's a bit behind me on the curve of getting pissed off about ads, but not as far behind me as Pinterest et al might hope. If Pinterest fills up with ads, I'm not sure she'll stay.

Re: Pinterest to get ads

#45
I'm happy for Pinterest to skimlink my pins. There's no option for me to give them that permission.

I guess they're nervous after the earlier backlash against skimlinking?

Re: Pinterest to get ads

#47
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, I mean Adsense. Adwords is intent-driven search. Adsense is discovery. Pinterest is much more comparable to Adsense.

I thought AdWords was the interface for making ads for AdSense. The logo even says "Google AdWords." And the ads I made look a lot like AdSense.

it sounds like they mean using AdWords but targeting the content network, which is effectively the AdSense network. That is different then search engine traffic that you can also buy through AdWords.

Re: Pinterest to get ads

#48
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, I mean Adsense. Adwords is intent-driven search. Adsense is discovery. Pinterest is much more comparable to Adsense.

I thought AdWords was the interface for making ads for AdSense. The logo even says "Google AdWords." And the ads I made look a lot like AdSense.

it sounds like they mean using AdWords but targeting the content network, which is effectively the AdSense network. That is different then search engine traffic that you can also buy through AdWords.

Re: Pinterest to get ads

#49
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, I mean Adsense. Adwords is intent-driven search. Adsense is discovery. Pinterest is much more comparable to Adsense.

I thought AdWords was the interface for making ads for AdSense. The logo even says "Google AdWords." And the ads I made look a lot like AdSense.

it sounds like they mean using AdWords but targeting the content network, which is effectively the AdSense network. That is different then search engine traffic that you can also buy through AdWords.

Re: Pinterest to get ads

#50
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, I mean Adsense. Adwords is intent-driven search. Adsense is discovery. Pinterest is much more comparable to Adsense.

I thought AdWords was the interface for making ads for AdSense. The logo even says "Google AdWords." And the ads I made look a lot like AdSense.

it sounds like they mean using AdWords but targeting the content network, which is effectively the AdSense network. That is different then search engine traffic that you can also buy through AdWords.
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