How and Why the NHL are Winning Pinterest
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The NHL boasts 1.2 million Pinterest followers, far, far more than the NFL, NBA or MLB, and a big part of it is their understanding of audience appeal. You could be forgiven for thinking that a lot the page's output is a bit reductive, but if it works, it works. Food and lifestyle content, pictures of young kids in hockey gear, there's even a section dedicated to NHL team-style manicures. They call them 'Fanicures'. You can groan now, nobody will judge you.
The thing is though, the appeal extends far beyond stereotypical target marketing, mostly because there is no 'marketing' to speak of. None of pinboards used by the NHL are geared towards merchandising. They might feature merchandise, but there are no sales links, no bargain codes, nothing. Rather, the idea is to encourage fans to engage with their teams, to contribute to the buzz. For instance, last November they put up a #Movember board, which had players showing off their hard-groomed 'staches, whilst also inviting fans to do the same.
It's not the only platform they're doing well on, the NHL Twitter is also immensely popular, and is often used to equally inventive effect, but the way their Pinterest has taken off neatly demonstrates just how much potential the platform really has. Twitter, Instagram and others have been clamoring to better manage their content into curated 'clouds' or 'boards' but Pinterest have been doing that since the outset.
Callum Davies
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