How Much Money Is Pinterest Potentially Earning from Affiliate Links?

Earlier in 2012, Pinterest took a lot of heat for secretly partnering with a London-based company called Skimlinks to get a cut of the sales referred through the website. But how much money was the company actually making? At the Founders conference in New York, Skimlinks founder Alicia Navarro revealed how much sites like Pinterest can potentially earn from affiliate links.

Earlier in 2012, Pinterest took a lot of heat for secretly partnering with a London-based company called Skimlinks to get a cut of the sales referred through the website. But how much money was the company actually making? At the Founders conference in New York, Skimlinks founder Alicia Navarro revealed how much sites like Pinterest can potentially earn from affiliate links.

GigaOm got the details:

She said the company works with about 20,000 publishers for hundreds of thousands of domains.

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