Pinterest debuted its long-awaited first-ever commercial today at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity – an advertising, marketing, and design conference that kicked off on Sunday.
The minute-long commercial showed how people use Pinterest to plan vacations and weddings, inspire DIY projects, and as a catalyst for new workout regimens. The ad seems to say that Pinterest is a search-engine for fostering creativity rather than answering everyday questions like Google.
In fact, Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann repeatedly contrasted Google with Pinterest in a keynote presentation at the festival today, says the Wall Street Journal Digits blog. "Google is the ultimate card catalog," Silbermann said. The search engine can help you answer questions about the weather and how to get somewhere, but can it tell you what to wear to your best friend’s wedding? "Google only gives you an objective lists of results," he said. Pinterest, on the other hand, is a database of images and ideas, so you can come to your own conclusions.
Silbermann refers to users as “curators,” painting the picture of a company more aligned with art and beauty than with Silicon Valley tech. The company has yet to say when or where the advertisement will run. Meanwhile, Pinterest’s internal ad network is coming to fruition.
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Pinterest is a social networking site with a visually-pleasing "virtual pinboard" interface. Users collect photos and link to products they love, creating their own pinboards and following the pinboards of other people whom they fi... read more »
Ben Silbermann (born c. 1982/1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded and is CEO of Pinterest, a virtual pinboard which lets users organize images, links, recipes and other things. The website allows users to create an... read more »
