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Overview

What is Bitly?

Bitly (Bit.ly) is one of the most popular link shortening tools. The vendor says it shortens 1 billion links per month. The company is privately held, based in New York City, and was founded in 2008.

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Pricing

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Basic

$35

Cloud
per month

Free

Free

Cloud

Customized

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Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

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Product Details

What is Bitly?

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Creating and managing powerful branded links is easy. Check out our tips for using popular Bitly features, including custom domains, redirects and Campaigns. Learn more at: bitly.is/resources Check out the Bitly blog: bitly.is/blog

Bitly Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Bitly (Bit.ly) is one of the most popular link shortening tools. The vendor says it shortens 1 billion links per month. The company is privately held, based in New York City, and was founded in 2008.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.5.

The most common users of Bitly are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Came for URL shortener, stayed for the Analytics Features

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 01, 2024
HC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bitly
5 years of experience
We use Bitly for nearly all URLs we put out publicly. As a real estate team, it is much easier to share a shortened bitly URL for our listings rather than a long, generated URL by our local MLS. We also use it for QR codes and eventbrites. The redirects are nice since when listings go under contract and then Back on Market and the generated URL changes, I can just edit the redirect so our shortened Bitly doesn't change and confuse the seller or mess up any marketing where we've already shared that link.

Link shortening is good but room for improvement

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 02, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bitly
2 years of experience
At our company, we use Bitly for various purposes. Firstly, it helps us shorten long URLs, making them more manageable and shareable across different platforms. Secondly, Bitly provides valuable insights into the performance of our marketing campaigns by tracking link clicks, geographic location of clicks, and other essential metrics. This allows us to make data-driven decisions and optimize our campaigns for better results.

Bitly helps with the shortening of URLs

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 25, 2022
GP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bitly
5 years of experience
We do a number of webinars and use Bitly to easily share the links on social media. It is also so much easier to use as a link on stories than the large zoom link. I also love how Bitly will tell who the Referrers were like email, Twitter, etc, the countries, and the number of clicks.

Bitly Is Efficient and Cost-Effective URL shortener and tracking service.

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 25, 2022
JM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bitly
10 years of experience
Bitly is one of the early URL shortener programs. I like being able to track all clicks over a limitless timeframe. I can always go to my Bitly dashboard and see the results of my shared URLs from AD campaigns, FB posts, and other content streams I push to.

Bitly is easy to use. The URL for seeing the metrics over time is also simply adding /# to the bit.ly link and there is your data.

I have created so many bit.ly links over time that I occasionally run into "unique" URL names conflicting with links I had already created.

Bitly is fast, complete, and provides excellent back-end reporting.

Bitly: Please try an amazing link shortener!

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 26, 2022
OR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bitly
10 years of experience
It is helpful as it can provide a short address. This feature allows our customers to reach easily to our content. It also makes it easy to share and identify links. Also, if you want to create QR codes, Bitly will do the work for you. Bitly also provides a customer service address, which is a great tool to make your brand stand by itself and differentiate from your competition.
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