&gt; The visual scrapbook platform should be printing money. Its predominantly female audience browses Pinterest&#x27;s various boards for inspiration about their next fashion purchases, vacation destination, or on how to decorate a house — and they also act as free brand representatives by &quot;pinning&quot; their favorite products, making them visible to others.<p>Pinterest tried skimlinking, but the some of the userbase <i>hated</i> that, claiming it was hurting their business.<p>When I used Pinterest I would not have cared if they had used skimlinks for anything I posted, but it doesn&#x27;t seem to be an option I can turn on.  And I want Pinterest to protect me from people posting their own affiliate links.  A bunch of people post low quality content and stuff it full of affiliate links.  Pinterest is worse with those people on the platform.  One thing it could do is skimlink everything, and charge for people who want to use their own affiliate links.  Most services provided to businesses are charged for, and allowing someone to run an affiliate marketing business on Pinterest is a service that Pinterest should charge for.<p>&gt; You have a lot of lower-income, middle-America people on Pinterest than you do on other sites, and it&#x27;s very female-centric. So if you&#x27;re a marketer with a budget, where do you allocate it? Put it on Google or Facebook, where there are tons and tons of users where you can target very well? Or on Pinterest, which is a much smaller audience, female, lower-income, where you can&#x27;t target well? It&#x27;s just not as efficient.&quot;<p>Wait what? I see people pinning stuff for weddings (average cost of US wedding is $26k) or home redecoration (average cost of US kitchen remodeling is over $15k) so these may be lower income people, but they have something that they&#x27;re saving up for and are prepared to spend considerable amounts of money on.<p>Carefully placed ads could be amazing for that market.<p>The real problems with Pinterest are the <i>awful</i> <i>awful</i> <i>awful</i> mobile experience which is very hostile to the user. Almost embarrassing. I don&#x27;t post any links to Pinterest anywhere because of that hateful experience.