Starting today and in the course of this month, all users can download and share published Idea Pins on social channels including Facebook and Instagram. These Idea Pins will be downloaded as a watermarked video that stitches all the Idea Pin pages together, and ends with an end card that displays the creator’s name and username.
This was declared in a blog post made by Pinterest Newsroom.
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Now with this new feature of pin sharing and downloading, Pinterest creator's contents can now go further to reach more audience on or off Pinterest.
To distribute an Idea Pin to Meta or Instagram stories: choose the “FBStories” or “IG Stories” icon in the share menu, which will initiate a download. Once the download is completed, it takes the creator to the Facebook or Instagram app with the story creation flow open and the watermarked Idea Pin video pasted in. It can then be edited and posted.
Asides Facebook and Instagram, creators can still share videos to others social media like TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn etc. All can be done via the same process highlighted above.
The download option let users to easily save and upload watermarked idea pin contents into other social platform outside Pinterest.