Hey, are you heading to Cannes this yr for the annual advert business gathering?

Yeah, me neither, however for many who are fortunate sufficient to be embarking on the journey, Pinterest might be internet hosting a brand new activation in Cannes, the place it’s going to search to spotlight its potential worth to tipsy advert execs.

Pinterest’s ‘Manifestival’ is actually a showcase of a number of the key artistic and engagement tendencies which can be gaining steam on the platform proper now, which, as famous, will ideally assist to persuade advert decision-makers that they need to be spending extra {dollars} on Pin campaigns.

And if that doesn’t work, Pinterest might be plying them with ice cream and mini-croissants as effectively.

Additionally tattoos. As a result of what number of company occasions have you ever been to that you simply’ve thought ‘Man, if solely I may get a tattoo, proper right here and now, to commemorate how cool this expertise has been’?

Mocking apart, the Manifestival activation is Pinterest’s newest push to maximise advert spend within the app, and construct its enterprise. Pinterest has spent the final 5 years transitioning from a social platform right into a fully-fledged product discovery and buying app, and now, it’s trying to take the subsequent steps in constructing its advert enterprise on this entrance, by leaning into the varied tendencies and behaviors within the app.

And Pinterest nonetheless has loads of alternative, particularly on the worldwide entrance, with Pin advertisements but to realize important traction in markets exterior the US.

The spells potential, which Pinterest is trying to showcase with this new activation, which is able to search to spotlight extra of what the app is about.

I imply, for us non-Cannes plebs, it doesn’t imply a heap, nevertheless it might be a great way to higher ingratiate Pins with these influential representatives.

You possibly can learn extra about Pinterest’s ‘Manifestival’, and even RSVP, right here.