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Short.io
Formerly Short.cm

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What is Short.io?

Short.io (formerly Short.cm) is a custom domain URL shortener used to create, customize, and share short branded links. The vendor boasts advanced features like country/region/mobile targeting; set up UTM-tags, link expiration/cloaking; apply API for developers; free email and online support.…

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What is Short.io?

Short.io (formerly Short.cm) is a custom domain URL shortener used to create, customize, and share short branded links. The vendor boasts advanced features like country/region/mobile targeting; set up UTM-tags, link expiration/cloaking; apply API for developers; free email and online support. Users…

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Details

What is Short.io?

Short.io (formerly Short.cm) is a custom domain URL shortener used to create, customize, and share short branded links. The vendor boasts advanced features like country/region/mobile targeting; set up UTM-tags, link expiration/cloaking; apply API for developers; free email and online support. Users can manage short links with colleagues by using the Team option. The integrations with Google Analytics, GTM, Segment, Zapier, and Facebook Pixel are also available.

Short.io Features

  • Supported: Link Expiration
  • Supported: API for developers
  • Supported: Teams
  • Supported: Bulk URL Shortening

Short.io Screenshots

Screenshot of The Link ListScreenshot of The Link Edit WindowScreenshot of Short.cm for TeamsScreenshot of Detailed Statistics

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Reviews and Ratings

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Short.io is a versatile tool that has found great utility across various industries and professions. In the education sector, universities, colleges, and schools rely on Short.io to effortlessly share course links, streamlining communication between students and instructors and ensuring easy access to course materials. Businesses of all kinds have also adopted Short.io to shorten URLs and enhance their readability, benefiting from concise and understandable links.

Short.io's integration with Slack has significantly improved the appearance of chat conversations containing URLs, transforming long and unsightly links into compact and visually pleasing representations. This integration enhances the overall user experience within teams. QA teams have found value in Short.io by using it to shorten URLs when reporting defects to developers, making it easier for both parties to identify issues and improve efficiencies.

Customer support teams leverage Short.io to overcome the character limit constraints of text messages, efficiently sharing important information with customers while maintaining clarity and professionalism. Additionally, Short.io provides organizations with shortened links for documents, presentations, and Zoom meetings, saving money on physical mailings and ensuring effortless access to desired content.

In marketing efforts, Short.io plays a vital role by allowing tracking of UTM details in blog posts and forum postings, accurately measuring the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and making data-driven decisions. Operations and marketing teams use Short.io to shorten and share links for communication purposes internally and externally, enhancing brand identity and making URLs more personalized and shareable.

Short.io is even utilized in direct mail campaigns, providing potential customers with shorter and easier-to-type URLs, maximizing engagement and conversion rates. This innovation eliminates the cumbersome process of manually typing long URLs and ensures a seamless user experience.

Overall, Short.io offers a comprehensive solution for URL shortening that brings immense value to diverse industries and professions. Its range of features and integrations empower users to streamline communication, improve efficiency, enhance user experience, and track marketing efforts accurately. Whether it's in education, business, customer support, or marketing, Short.io's versatility and user-friendly interface make it an invaluable tool for anyone looking to simplify and optimize their URL sharing processes.

Reviews

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Short.io Review

Rating: 5 out of 10
July 11, 2022
Short.io is used to be able to share in an easier way to share course links, the business problems it addresses are the following: there are programs that do not allow you to share long links. Its scope of use is: universities, colleges, schools and businesses, law firms, and doctor's offices.
  • Click tracking.
  • Campaign tracking.
  • Statistics
  • Short links.
Short.io adapts well in business scenarios, in educational scenarios to do research work it is a very good tool, either for university or college educational level, likewise, it does not adapt well in medical research scenarios, nor in scenarios when it comes to using different types of web pages.

Simple and efficient

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 01, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Short.io
1 year of experience
We use it to shorten links and send them out for marketing abs communication purposes. The tracking of the links also helps us to determine if our marketing efforts are worthwhile or need to be adjusted.
  • Shorten links.
  • Track clicks.
  • Manage links.
Short is great for taking a long, detailed link and making it shorter so it’s more aesthetically pleasing and easier to add on emails/social media. The tracking feature is great and helps us oversee our efforts.

Short.cm makes your long links shorter

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 29, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Short.io
1 year of experience
Short.cm is used in my organisation to shorten long links while working on customer support contacts where the text message character limit is only 260 letters. Also, it is a great software that readily provides shortened links which are useful to present on documents, presentations, and Zoom meetings. It helped me and my organisation save a lot of money by avoiding sending while responding to customers.
  • Shorten long company's self support/help article links.
  • Provides specific/curated domains for different businesses/companies.
  • The links are customisable. Eg: https://ly.abc.com/ProjectReview.
Short.cm is best suited where you need to type something with a character limit and you can't afford to add long links. Instead, you can shorten the link using Short.cm and paste it into the messaging app. Example: Twitter has a character limit for tweets. Short.cm is less appropriate for apps like Gmail, Slack, etc that have an inbuilt hyperlinking mechanism making Short.cm's usage is very minimal. (My personal experience).

Short.cm is Easy and Crisp!

Rating: 7 out of 10
March 29, 2022
We integrate Short.cm with Slack so that our chat conversations look better when using the URLs. For example, as a QA, if I find any defect and need to explain it to devs from the URL, it will be difficult to understand the URL sometimes and I use Short.cm to shorten the URL and make it understandable.
  • Provides crisp URLs
  • Easy to use
  • Gives us tips
It's easy to integrate and use and is very flexible with no downtimes seemingly. It is more useful for development and testing and less useful for business people as they want real URLs to be seen.

Everything you need for custom URLs + shortened links!

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 29, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Short.io
2 years of experience
We use it in our own business to shorten links or customize the links that we share. I also set it up for one of my client's sales team as they were sending Loom videos via Instagram to their leads and the Loom URLs are long and ugly. Short.io allowed us to customize the Loom videos URL with the prospect's name, making it much more personalized and sharable.
  • Shorten links.
  • Customize Links.
  • Reporting/Data on how many people clicked your link.
If you want some basic analytics on the links you send (e.g. if you're on a sales team and you're sending 1:1 emails and want to know if someone clicked your link). If you want to customize a link URL for a specific partner or person. If you want to shorten your URL.

Who knew url shortening could be so much fun

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 27, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Short.io
1 year of experience
The links we send to customers include several lengthy (and ugly) tracking parameters. These long URLs look spammy when sent over text. Short.cm / Short.io condenses these links into short, aesthetic, custom branded short links that customers are more likely to click on. We also put these links in direct mail, which makes it a lot easier for the potential customer to type into a browser.
  • User interface very intuitive.
  • Deep link functionality.
  • Informative statistics dashboard.
Short.cm / Short.io has a very intuitive user interface that anyone can pick up. The software has plenty of statistics and tracking options so you can evaluate how your links are doing. Short is well suited for any scenario where you're sending big ugly links to customers, whether it be via email, text, or physical mail.

Best Link Shortener on The Market.

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 26, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Short.io
4 years of experience
I use it as a link shortener to have a URL that's easy to access for common links that can be memorized and used across the team. We also use it for tracking UTM details when doing blog posts or posting on other forums. So we use it in operations and in marketing within the company.
  • Link Shortening.
  • UTM Tracking.
  • Link Organizing.
Having used many link shorteners, Short.io is one of the best and most reasonably priced. Does everything I need it to.
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