If you’re wondering what an advertisement on Pinterest looks like, here it is. Their upcoming revenue model with in-stream advertising may add value to the already-hot social network. Then again, it might just spam it out.
Pinterest today started its preannounced test of “promoted pins,” a.k.a. the first-ever revenue-generating product for the company valued at $2.5 billion.
Well, not so fast on the revenue front. Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann said in September, “Nobody’s paying for anything yet — we want to see how things go and, more than anything, hear what you think.”