Shoppers who arrive at online retail sites by way of Pinterest spend $168.83 on average, compared to $94.70 for Facebook and $70.84 for Twitter, according to a study released in September 2012 by RichRelevance. The report, based on data from more than 689 million shopping sessions from January 1 to August 31, 2012, finds that Pinterest trailed Facebook in average revenue per referral session ($1.60 vs. $2.50) during that time period, but has rivaled or exceeded Facebook in the past 3 months on this measure.Shoppers referred from both social networks are ahead of shoppers arriving from Twitter, whose average revenue-per-session was $0.80 during the time period. Read the rest at MarketingCharts.
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