Are you looking to improve the visibility of your networks or your brand using Pinterest? In this article we tell you a little about this social network and how you can get the best out of the images you want to use on it.
If there is a social network where images, infographics and videos are everything, this is undoubtedly Pinterest. So if you are thinking of launching a marketing strategy for Pinterest, you have to take into account the size of the images for this social network. Pinterest already has 150 million active users. Every ecommerce, fashion brand or gastronomic page should have an account to be able to:
- Improve the positioning of your website (by putting the link of your page in the images).
- Be the perfect showcase for your brand.
- Favor the sales of your online store.
- Help you viralize your content easily (recipes, infographics, product catalogs, videos).
For all the different images you use on the site, the size, extension and format will be specific to achieve the image that best suits the use you want to make of it. If you have a business account on Pinterest you can add a photo or video for your header, both in a 16:9 aspect ratio and horizontal.
If you aren’t new to Pinterest, you already know that a pin are the photos or videos that you upload to Pinterest, and as they are the protagonists of this social network, it is very important that you upload them with good quality and with the correct size.
And is that the width of each of your pins must be at least 600 pixels and the length with the limit that you consider best, since there is nothing established. The extension of the pins that work best on Pinterest, have a size of 600 x 1102 pixels. In this social network, vertical images are more popular than horizontal ones. Something that will come in handy to know when planning your content.
You may be wondering “well, how can I resize my images to better fit my Pinterest posts and profile?”. There are many tools capable of doing this. To make it quick and easy we recommend you Asset Generator for Social Media API. Let us explain what this API consists of.
Use Asset Generator for Social Media API for your Pinterest profile
Asset Generator for Social Media is an API that has the ability to resize any image you want to be perfect for any social media service you want. This API works for Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, Youtube, Tumblr, and Twitter. The application will receive the image URL that you want to resize, and you can declare the orientation you want to give to it, so you can get the perfect image for different purposes whether it be a post, a video, a stories, etc.
Asset Generator for Social Media API is ideal for those marketing agencies or companies that want to programmatically generate images for different social media services. Just by declaring the orientation, you will be getting a new JPG file for download and you can post it right away. You wonder if there are there any limitations with your plans? Besides the number of API calls per month you have in the Basic plan: 50 calls daily; in Pro: 1000 calls daily.
If you want to know more about the specific function of the API for Pinterest images or other information, you can find it in the API Documentation tab. Give it a try! You can’t go wrong with this API.
Also published on Medium.