PinBoard Sharing Group. Startup Viraliti Taps Pinterest's Lucrative Advertising Space. Pinterest is the no. 3 social network in the world, with a recent study revealing that the site is actually better at getting users to purchase goods and product than Facebook. Interestingly, Pinterest doesn’t have an ad network of its own, inspiring the startup accelerator program Viraliti, which aims to solve this very problem. Viraliti calls itself the “adwords for Pinterest,” and is a platform which connects advertisers with Pinterest users, giving them a route to monetize pins while giving brands an opportunity for more exposure. The program runs on a CPC (cost per click) model. Advertisers are charged for legitimate clicks at a cost determined by a publisher’s influence on Pinterest.
A pinner who has more followers and generates more likes will get a higher CPC. Images on Pinterest go viral often, as users repin (or share) images on their own boards. Here’s a detailed list of what Viraliti offers: Features offered to advertisers on Viraliti are as follows: Viraliti - Pinterest Social Media Advertising. Viraliti - the Pinterest advertisement network. Be a Part of the 'Public Hunt' When You Go On a Recruiting Spree Next Time; With Startup HuntShire. We’ve cribbed enough about hiring issues and written about the hiring saga of a startup or the ways in which you shouldn’t hire! Taking these cue, there have been multiple startups trying to solve the recruitment issue. One such startup is Huntshire that is tackling the problem by giving it the angle of ‘hunts’.
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Banking on the opportunity of monetizing pins on Pinterest, Viraliti has surfaced. “It is a known phenomenon that images on Pinterest go viral quite often as users tend to repin(share) the images on their own boards. How does it work? Viraliti runs on a CPC model that is advertisers will be charged for every legitimate click. One might argue that the interest around Pinterest has hit a plateau but Viraliti believes it to be a hot destination for internet marketers.
Viraliti has competition from the recently launched Pinbooster who has a pay per post model. 30 Days of Pinspiration. Pinbooster. Pinbooster Launches Its Pay-To-Pin Ad Platform For Pinterest. This week, Pinterest cracked the top 50 most trafficked websites in the U.S. with its now 25.3 million stateside visitors, but the social photo-sharing site has yet to determine how it will monetize all those pins. However, that hasn’t stopped other companies from using Pinterest’s growing popularity to generate revenue for themselves. Case in point: today, a new startup called Pinbooster is officially opening its doors, becoming the first ad platform which pays users to re-pin ad messages from brands. Co-founded by Dave Weinberg and Ariel Remer, Pinbooster introduces a business model similar to pay-per-tweet services like Izea’s Sponsored Tweets or Adly, but one which is designed for Pinterest.
The founders said that both they and their wives were really into Pinterest, and Weinberg himself was a longtime pay-per-tweet user. On the users’ side, becoming a paid pinner is simple – all that’s required is a Pinterest account.