7. Pinning and Playing Videos

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In this chapter, you learn how to post and play videos on Pinterest.

• Understanding Pinterest’s video pins

• Pinning videos from YouTube

• Finding videos on Pinterest

• Playing pinned videos

Pinterest started out as a social network for images. In August 2011, however, Pinterest added another interesting feature—the capability to pin and share videos found on the Web, which made pinning videos as easy as pinning images. Videos are also easy to play on the Pinterest site.

Understanding Video Pins

A video pin is much like a traditional image pin except you’re pinning a video file instead of an image file. You find ...

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