Pinterest, every mention
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A double episode: AI differentiation, and Apple does F1
- ▶ 12:12 Benedict Evans And they, you've got those low-level primitives of sharing a slug of text or share a slug of video or share a comment, but actually Instagram and Facebook and TikTok and YouTube work very differently and Pinterest and, and then go off and…
The right questions to ask about TikTok
- ▶ 16:39 Benedict Evans I mean, there was an observation for a long time that Pinterest was sort of like invisible in Silicon Valley, because basically like 80 or 90% of the user pay, it's in New York. 3 times in the scene
Amazon's $40B advertising business
- ▶ 9:22 Benedict Evans Um, Uber is now at a five hundred million dollar run rate, and everyone, obviously eBay and Pinterest and Etsy want to do this, but also people like Target want to do it.
What's next for advertising?
- ▶ 0:59 Toni Cowan-Brown We've been bringing up Facebook and Instagram, but there's also Snapchat and Pinterest that seem to be all too, all too often forgotten about.
- ▶ 11:27 Toni Cowan-Brown And then it feels like there's a whole new wave now happening, whether that's on Pinterest, 2 times in the scene
Netflix isn't a tech company
- ▶ 9:51 Benedict Evans Um, yeah, it was like a, I can't remember what it was like, it was like a Pinterest-y UI, it was like a tiled UI, and they would just suggest nice things that you could buy on Amazon, because you'd never find it, because it's, you know,…
How to think about tech
- ▶ 8:06 Benedict Evans Pinterest for charts. 2 times in the scene
The Meta reality
- ▶ 33:04 Benedict Evans It's about the New York Times app, and the Uber app, and the Pinterest app, and the web browser, and
The Business of publishing
- ▶ 40:28 Benedict Evans Um, but quite a lot of in particularly what's interesting instead of Instagram or Pinterest, um, or to your point of, you know, what are the head, which headphones should I buy is that, you know, go back to a hundred years, like there were…
Trying to understand Ad Tech
- ▶ 4:02 Benedict Evans And then of the rest, a relatively small portion is things like Twitter and Pinterest and so on.
The acceleration of ecommerce habits
- ▶ 21:40 Benedict Evans On, you know, that's what SoundCloud tries to do with music, and there's all sorts of little, or you, there's a whole bunch of stuff where that happens on Pinterest, where you're sort of trying to find a different aggregation model.
- ▶ 25:32 Benedict Evans And we're sort of reconstructing, again, that aggregation layer, recommendation layer, which is sort of what Instagram is trying to do, and Pinterest, and in a funny way, Twitter.