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What if the dead internet is where the profits are?

https://investor.pinterestinc.com/news-and-events/press-rele... "Pinterest Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Results, Delivers First Billion Dollar Revenue Quarter"

(presumably the money is from advertisers, and the 5200 people are on the phone to advertisers persuading them to increase spend)

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Except machines dont pay for products or services... show all the fake ads you want to all the fake profiles you can, inflate your figures to the moon but in the end, the results for the advertiser will determine media value not the fake metrics.

All digital media is a race to the bottom. It appears that Pinterest is falling very fast.

There definitely is a line you can cross with ineffective advertising sniff but that line can be hidden pretty well by now.

> Q4 Revenue of $1.15 billion, an increase of 18%

That's unreal tbh. Clearly I'm living in a bubble thinking "who the hell still uses Pinterest".

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