# Pinterest Provides Customers and Income in Q1

Pinterest has shared its newest efficiency replace, recording stable will increase in each person and income in Q1 2025.

First off on customers. Pinterest added 17 million extra month-to-month actives within the interval, taking it as much as 570 million MAU.

As you’ll be able to see on this chart, Pinterest has been steadily rising its person base, with Q1 seeing its greatest enhance in customers, in uncooked numbers, over the previous 5 quarters. That progress has slowed barely in comparative phrases, however the numbers stay regular, exhibiting that Pinterest is establishing a spot as a key discovery platform for a lot of customers.

The one concern right here is that Pinterest isn’t seeing huge progress in its core income markets, within the U.S. and EU, which each noticed much less relative progress within the interval. Pinterest has being gaining floor in Japan, whereas India can also be a progress market, however it hasn’t but established these as sturdy income drivers as but.

Pinterest additionally notes that Gen Z stays the platform’s largest and fastest-growing cohort. For a very long time, Pinterest struggled to realize traction with youthful customers, however as social media natives have aged-up, and Pinterest has up to date its discovery instruments, it’s now develop into a valued useful resource for a lot of consumers.

When it comes to income, Pinterest introduced in $855 million in Q1, up 16% year-over-year.

That’s a great degree of progress in comparison with Q1 final 12 months, although once more, I’d be aware that Pinterest must develop its advert enterprise in different markets to capitalize on its utilization.

On that entrance, Pinterest has additionally introduced a brand new partnership with adtech agency Magnite to assist develop its advert alternatives. Magnite will give Pinterest reference to extra manufacturers, and can guarantee wider take-up of Pin adverts.

Pinterest says that its AI parts, together with its Efficiency+ adverts, and in-stream discovery instruments, have helped it enhance the person expertise.

As per Pinterest CEO Invoice Prepared:

“Our AI developments are serving to customers take motion and make extra intentional purchasing choices. We’re driving efficiency for advertisers and profitable market share, giving us a stable basis for long-term, sustainable progress.”

Curiously, Pinterest additionally notes that it’s seeing extra curiosity from monetary providers entrepreneurs, which displays increasing curiosity within the platform, and its numerous presentation choices.

General, it’s a stable report card, which reveals that Pinterest is growing its relevance for entrepreneurs, whereas additionally exploring new alternatives. As with most platforms, its reliance on the U.S. and EU stays a priority (particularly on condition that some 80% of Pinterest customers are outdoors the U.S.), however Pinterest is doing extra to activate this, and make sure that it’s capitalizing on its alternatives.