Visual Contenting March 2016 | Page 25

SOCIAL MEDIA Pinterest is one of the newest social networks to catch the public’s attention, but it’s grown fast. With millions of users ever day, Pinterest is now one of the best ways your marketing team can drive traffic to your company’s website. If this incredible growth continues, that means you have 54,795 new potential customers every day you market on Pinterest. Pinterest users buy more often, spend more money, and help your business grow more than any other social network. Check out this infographic shared by WebpageFX to see how! It’s also important to note that Pinterest was responsible for 3.6% of all referral traffic in 2012. And, at the time, it only had 11.7 million unique US users. Pinterest’s Growth and Engagement And if you want to talk about engagement, you can’t get much better than Pinterest users. Despite the fact that it’s only five years old, Pinterest is the third most popular social network in the United States. That’s an incredible rate of growth for any company, and it’s almost unbelievable that they stabilized after so many new users signed up. So apparently, “easy come, easy go” doesn’t apply to Pinterest. Over five years, they’ve averaged: • 20 million new users per year • 1.7 million new users per month • 384,615 million new users per week • 54,795 million new users per day • 38 new users per minute Visual Contenting Not a bad gig, considering you can sign up for free. Pins are quick, easy to use, and they drive sales — they’re Facebook “likes” on steroids. Pinterest users account for 1.5 trillion recommendations annually — or 15,000 per user (1.5 trillion / 100 million) — which is obscenely high in terms of user engagement. And once you consider that Pinterest retains and engages users three times better than Twitter, then there’s no question. Your business needs to be on Pinterest. Who Uses Pinterest? Pinterest is known for having an overwhelmingly female user base. In fact, almost half of US women use the social network, and 84% of its total users are women. Most users are also from middleand upper-class households that