Pinterest is a visual discovery and inspiration platform where users save and organize images and videos (Pins) around home, fashion, food and shopping.
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Pinterest is a visual discovery and inspiration platform where users save and organize images and videos (Pins) around home, fashion, food and shopping. It uses AI-driven recommendation ranking and visual search to match users with shoppable products, monetizes mainly through advertising and shopping features, and offers advertisers generative-AI creative and automated campaign tools (Performance+). Listed on the NYSE (PINS) in April 2019; about 631 million monthly active users as of Q1 2026.
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