Sharing videos on Social Media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest is a common strategy to increase video views. Your video may also go viral on web with the help of such Social Media networks, if you really have some interesting stuff.

We already know that Pinterest is a big (and getting bigger) source of traffic to increase page and video views. So, do you pin your videos on Pinterest? Below guide explains how to pin YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Dailymotion or any other videos on Pinterest.

Pin Videos on Pinterest in 4 simple steps

Pinning videos to Pinterest is as simple as a normal Pin. If you know how to add a Pin, you can Pin videos on Pinterest in no time. For those who are new to Pinterest and finding the process difficult, following steps will help you to do that with ease:

  1. Say, you want to Pin a YouTube video on Pinterest. Click on the ‘Add +’ button on the top-right side in your Pinterest account.
    pin videos on pinterest
  2. Click ‘Add a Pin’ button in the appeared ‘Add’ dialog.
    pin videos on pinterest
  3. Paste-in the URL of your YouTube video and click ‘Find Images’ button.
    pin videos on pinterest
  4. You’ll see the thumbnail fetched from YouTube video as the pin image. Now choose a pinboard, enter a description and pin the video by clicking ‘Pin it’. That’s it!
    pin videos on pinterest

Similarly, you can pin Vimeo videos, Metacafe videos or videos from any other service on Pinterest. After Pinning your video on Pinterest, you can see your video in the ‘Video’ section in your Pinterest.

pin videos on pinterest

People on Pinterest utilize this section to discover interesting videos and if you have some enthralling stuff, you definitely going to get loads of views!

You may also want to know how to Embed Pinterest Pins on Website / Blog.