---
title: "Smartly for Pinterest"
slug: "smartly-for-pinterest"
tags: ["not-public", "Pinterest", "Get started"]
updated: 2026-09-01T10:34:50Z
published: 2026-09-01T10:34:50Z
canonical: "docs.smartly.io/smartly-for-pinterest"
---

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# Smartly for Pinterest

Smartly for Pinterest brings the Smartly capabilities to your Pinterest advertising. What we offer includes

- effective campaign management
- automation for campaigns, ads, creative and optimizations
- image and video templates
- advanced campaign and brand reporting
- triggers, catalog mappings

## Top Smartly features for Pinterest

### Campaign management

#### Smoothly set up campaigns, ad groups and ads

You can create and edit multiple campaigns, ad groups and ads at once, allowing you to quickly drive changes to your campaign fleet in one flow.

#### Automate your advertising

Set up automation for your campaigns, ad groups and ads (assets), which allows you to update, create and retire assets by simply updating a spreadsheet. The Smartly system will update and publish the assets automatically without needing to go into Smartly or Pinterest Ads Manager.

#### Enhance your catalog feeds

You can manage your Pinterest catalog feeds through Smartly. Set up your field mappings and replace values to get the correct format before sending it to Pinterest. You can also attach image templates to the feed, to enhance the visuals for your catalog sales ads.

## Supported campaign objectives

- Brand awareness
- Video completion
- Consideration
- Leads
- Sales

## Supported ad formats

- Image Ads
- Video Ads
- Max. Width Video Ads
- Carousel Ads
- Collections Ads
- Max. Width Collections Ads
- Promotion Ads
- Idea Ads
- Collage Ads

## Get started with Smartly for Pinterest

### Connect your account

To get started, [connect your Pinterest ad account](/v1/docs/connect-a-pinterest-ad-account) to Smartly.

### Start trafficking ads

1. Add an [automation feed](/v1/docs/create-and-connect-automation-feeds) and/or a [product catalog](/v1/docs/get-started-with-catalog-ads).
2. [Create a workspace](/v1/docs/create-a-workspace).
3. [Create a campaign](/v1/docs/create-a-regular-campaign-manually), ad sets and ads.
4. [Create an image or video template](/v1/docs/create-smartly-templates).
5. [Set up your campaign with your the templates](/v1/docs/define-a-data-source-for-image-and-video-templates).
6. [Publish your campaign](/v1/docs/publish-campaigns).

### Analyze campaign performance in Reporting

1. In the main navigation, click **Intelligence > Reports**.
2. Click the Pinterest tab to [start building reports](/v1/docs/create-a-new-report).

### Optimize your campaign automatically with Predictive Budget Allocation (PBA)

1. [Create a budget pool](/v1/docs/create-and-manage-budget-pools).
2. [Set up Predictive Budget Allocation](/v1/docs/create-and-manage-budget-pools#create-a-budget-pool-and-start-managing-budgets).

### Trigger changes and notification emails

Set up [triggers](/v1/docs/introduction-to-triggers) to take advantage of Smartly’s versatile automation.

## Availability

Pinterest ads are not available to Pinterest Business accounts in all countries. See [Ads availability](https://help.pinterest.com/en/business/availability/ads-availability) on the Pinterest help center for a list of supported advertiser locations.

The largest unit in the advertising campaign hierarchy. Defines the advertising objective and contains ad sets and ads.

In advertising, a product catalog is a list of products to be promoted. It also includes product-specific information like price, color, type etc.