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  • The Success of Pinterest [Video Infographic]

    Those of you who are familiar with Pinterest will not be surprised to hear how popular the social media site has become. The ability to share information on virtual bulletin boards has proven to have great utility in the business and marketing worlds, as well as education, and just plain old social sharing.

    Did you know that Pinterest is driving more referral traffic than YouTube, Linkedin, and Google plus combined? That’s very powerful stuff. No wonder marketeers and advertisers like the site so much.

    This next video infographic on Pinterest and pinning comes to us from MDG Advertising.Com and it features a video breakdown of their popular “Pin It to Win It” Infographic. They provide some interesting statistics on who’s using it, how they use it, and what kind of response consumers have to using it.

    If you’re not using Pinterest, it provides some great information on how to get started. If you are already pinning, it can help you understand the power it has, and how to get more mileage out of what you are already doing. It’s growing fast and it’s worth learning more about. Stop procrastinating, check this thing out:

  • Pinterest Now Supports Vimeo

    Pinterest just announced that its users now have to ability to pin Vimeo clips alongside of YouTube content on its video feed. The interface is pretty much the same as usual, with Pinterest users describing their video pins.

    To pin a video item, users can install the Pin It bookmarklet to their browser’s bookmarks, by following the steps outlined in the video below, which describes the process for Google Chrome:

    Once installed, embedded Vimeo videos from anywhere on the web can be pinned.

    The arrangement will likely do more for Vimeo, which is a site catered more to professional videographers and designers than say, YouTube. It was recently reported that Pinterest is the web’s third most popular social network, behind Facebook and Twitter, and will surely become a huge referrer of traffic for Vimeo. Though, there has always been speculation about how Pinterest will ultimately handle copyright issues, as every image, and now video, on the internet rapidly gets pinned to its boards. As of now, Pinterest holds its members solely responsible for what they pin and repin, and backs this up by the aforementioned collection user comments before anything can be added. It will be interesting to see how long this lasts.