Holiday gift guides curated by Alicia Keys and Paris Hilton, among several others, are about to take over your Pinterest feed.
The social platform, which has been trying to drive more shopping on its service, is hoping to make holiday shopping easier for its 537 million monthly active users. It will do so by offering them more than 1,000 curated gift guides, which carry 30–40 items each, curated by top creators and celebrities like RuPaul, Emma Chamberlain, and K-pop girl group TWICE.
Hilton even called Pinterest “a moodboard in your pocket.”
Martha Welsh, chief strategy officer at Pinterest, told Retail Brew that gift guides were a “natural extension” of everything Pinterest has been doing over the past two years to make the platform more shoppable.
At a high level, the idea is to enable customers to not only discover products they love, but to make it easier to save them into a single wish list and buy them through Pinterest, Welsh said.
“You can think of it as almost a shopping cart, you know, where you’re putting stuff in there, and then you can come back to it,” she said.
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