Meanwhile, Instagram will add 3.9 million more buyers this year, compared with 2.6 million for Facebook and 1.1 million for Pinterest. Together, that will push the number of US social buyers to 100.7 million this year. US social commerce sales will see an even stronger boost, reaching $71.62 billion in 2024. Most social commerce purchases are of low-ticket items, particularly on TikTok.
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| Dec 6, 2024
At 68.8 million social network users in 2024, they continue to hold the largest share of each of their preferred social platforms—Reddit, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Facebook—due to their size. But Gen Zers are set to outnumber them on Instagram by 2025. Millennials’ social platform adoption is saturated, but they still rely on social media for communication, news, and entertainment.
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Source: Pinterest; Meta; Snap Inc.
Pinterest reported that Walgreens tested its new Performance+ suite and saw a 55% higher clickthrough rate (CTR) and a 13% lower cost per click (CPC). Taboola’s Maximize Conversions tool works similarly for the open web, at least for ad placement and bidding. Taboola offers a separate genAI creative tool called GenAI Ad Maker. Finding the right audience (high impact, easy to implement). Why genAI?
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| Oct 30, 2024
Driving audience engagement for content related to product marketing may be more challenging on the platform, but that doesn’t mean product marketers should shy away from TikTok, which has other platforms like Pinterest (0.3%), Instagram (0.3%), and Facebook (3.9% for video posts) beat on engagement, per Dash Hudson. 5. CTV yields better attention metrics than online video.
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| Dec 6, 2024
Pinterest will continue to make itself hospitable to ecommerce advertisers. Pinterest will be the fourth-fastest-growing social platform we track. We expect Pinterest’s US ad business will grow 17.2% in 2024, with revenues of $2.66 billion. That’s thanks to its partnerships with large outside demand partners, including Amazon and Google, as well as growing traction for its conversion API.
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| Apr 29, 2024
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| Mar 11, 2025
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In our exclusive survey with ESW, data from shoppers in 18 countries reveals new twists in the path to purchase, the rising momentum of marketplaces, and the resilience of age-old fundamentals.
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| Feb 25, 2025
Latin America’s digital revolution is marching full steam ahead, with consumers spending more than a third of their day online. As social commerce and retail media propel the region’s digital economy to new heights, the runway for growth remains long.
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| Feb 19, 2025
Amid dizzying policy unpredictability and a grab bag of unpleasant economic possibilities, precise ad spend forecasting is challenging. A scenarios-based approach can help clarify potential outcomes.
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| Apr 30, 2025
This is the Q1 2025 installment of our quarterly “Ad Spending Benchmarks” series, which helps ad buyers and sellers calibrate their spending and revenue mix against the market.
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| Apr 18, 2025
This is the Q1 2025 installment of our quarterly “Ad Spending Benchmarks” series, which helps ad buyers and sellers calibrate their spending and revenue mix against the market.
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| Apr 18, 2025
Retail media networks (RMNs) are eyeing the open web as an opportunity for scaled growth, but successfully integrating retailer data off-platform won’t happen overnight.
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| Mar 10, 2025
Shoppable ads will be a focus for brands in 2025 as they test new formats offered by retail media networks and their media partners.
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| Feb 24, 2025
Methodology: Data is collected and analyzed quarterly by Dash Hudson, including posts from national and international companies across major social media platforms, including TikTok (n=917), Instagram (n=2,829), YouTube (n=684), Facebook (n=1,318), Pinterest (n=548), and X (755 companies) to ensure a comprehensive and representative sample.
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| Nov 22, 2024
The creator economy asserts itself at SXSW: Panels with creator platforms underscored their crucial place in the marketing ecosystem
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| Mar 12, 2025
Though not exactly equivalent, platforms like LinkedIn and Pinterest are vastly outperforming X. In Western European markets where we forecast users (France, Germany, Spain, and the UK), their penetration rates as a proportion of social network users are ahead of X’s. In the three-speed market, they’re closer to Snapchat and TikTok than they are to X.
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| Jun 6, 2024
Over the past year, Amazon has launched programs with Meta, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok to integrate shoppable Amazon ads onto the social platforms. How should retailers get started on the path to unified commerce?
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| Nov 18, 2024
The share of TikTok, Pinterest, and Instagram users who spent $200 to $399 per year while using those platforms is greater than the share of those who spent at least $400. The opposite is true for Snapchat and Reddit. What it means for brands. It has never been easier to drive sales directly from social platforms.
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| Aug 23, 2024
It's happening across platforms from TikTok to YouTube to Pinterest to Instagram, and really among pretty much all different types of users. Marcus:.
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While some platforms allow advertisers to avoid “negative” keywords, Pinterest is the only platform that enables keyword targeting akin to traditional search capabilities. Many performance advertisers have embraced paid search formats as built-in performance optimizers, but brand marketers have been more skeptical of cost tradeoffs, leading to slower adoption.
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And as of 2024, Meta and Pinterest require merchants to use their in-house checkout solutions. This gives sellers access to commerce tools that can help them manage their product catalogs, set up online shops, and view sales activity. What does it mean for payment providers? Burgeoning social media commerce platforms provide tantalizing growth opportunities.
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| May 17, 2024