Pinterest Performance+: AI and Automation for Marketers

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Maximize results.
Minimize effort.

Pinterest Performance+ puts AI and automation into action, helping you boost efficiency, scale creative and drive results.

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20% lower costs per action

Pinterest Performance+ catalog sales campaigns help optimize results and lower costs over time.1

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50% fewer inputs

AI and automation optimize settings for you, cutting setup time.

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AI and automation you can trust

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Meet the Pinterest Performance+ suite

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Campaigns

Use Pinterest Performance+ campaigns for the best results and fastest setup

Pinterest Performance+ campaigns

  • Bundles all the Pinterest Performance+ features to help maximize gains

  • Available for consideration, conversions and catalog sales campaigns

  • Requires 50% fewer inputs, compared to standard setup

  • Pinterest Performance+ campaigns help improve results and costs over time. For example, Pinterest Performance+ catalog sales campaigns helped brands see a 20% lower CPA2

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ROAS bidding

Prioritizes high-value purchases to help improve return on ad spend

Pinterest Performance+ ROAS bidding

  • Prioritizes higher-value conversion events, while spending your budget in full

  • In testing, brands using this feature saw 10% higher return on ad spend3

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Bidding

Makes the most of your budget with dynamically adjusted bids

Pinterest Performance+ bidding

  • Uses real-time signals to adjust bids, prioritizing the highest-value opportunities

  • Pinterest Performance+ bidding can help reduce costs per action by 2%, compared to custom bidding4

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Budgets

Optimizes spend to drive performance, while helping reduce costs

Pinterest Performance+ budgets

  • Boosts performance by adjusting spend at optimal moments

  • Works for daily or fixed budgets. The system flexes spend up or down by 25% per day, across a rolling 7-day average.

  • Brands using Pinterest Performance+ daily budgets drove 3% lower costs per action, compared to fixed budgets5

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Creative optimization

Scales ad variations and optimizes creative delivery

Pinterest Performance+ creative optimization

  • Uses your catalog to create thousands of ad variations, then makes sure the right person sees each ad

  • Over time, our system will keep optimizing against the strongest variations

  • Advertisers using Pinterest Performance+ creative saw 19% more checkout revenue attributed to Pinterest ads6

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Generate backgrounds

Takes product Pins from drab to fab with AI-enhanced backgrounds 

Pinterest Performance+ generate backgrounds

  • Replaces the standard white background for product Pins with engaging, AI-generated scenes

  • Backgrounds are reviewed by real people to help protect your brand’s look and feel

  • In testing, brands using Pinterest Performance+ generate backgrounds saw an 11% increase in conversion rates7

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Targeting

Uses visual search technology to identify new audiences

Pinterest Performance+ targeting

  • Visual search helps expand reach beyond your original settings—no keywords required

  • Serves your ads to people who act like your best existing customers

  • In studies, Pinterest Performance+ targeting drove a 17% reduction in costs per mille, compared to standard setup8

Real brands with real results

Wayfair designs a better shopping strategy with ROAS bidding

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↑38% conversion rate⁹

ROAS bidding helped Wayfair improve conversion rates

↑6.7% ROAS¹⁰

Enhanced efficiency and scale increased their return on ad spend

Become a Pinterest Performance+ pro

Level up your knowledge with free videos and courses on Pinterest Academy, or even earn a badge.

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Try Pinterest Performance+ for your next campaign

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Frequently asked questions

No, you cannot convert an existing campaign to use the Pinterest Performance+ suite. To use Pinterest Performance+, you’ll need to start a new campaign. Then, you can decide whether to turn on Pinterest Performance+ at the campaign level, or for individual settings.

You can use Pinterest Performance+ campaigns to optimize the entire setup, or choose specific products during regular campaign setup. Our tools are flexible so you can build the solution that works best for you.

No, there is not a minimum budget. You can set any budget you want as you go through setup.

The Pinterest Performance+ suite is available for multiple objectives:

Pinterest Performance+ campaigns: Consideration, conversions, catalog sales
Pinterest Performance+ creative: Catalog sales
Pinterest Performance+ targeting, bidding and budgets: Awareness, video views, consideration, conversions, catalog sales
Pinterest Performance+ ROAS bidding: This is available for brands using the Pinterest tag or Conversions API, who are passing revenue

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