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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 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.

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Media

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Incentivized
Moises Abraham Lacayo CortesView profile
Especialista legal in Legal at BAC Credomatic (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • Click tracking.
  • Campaign tracking.
  • Statistics
  • Short links.

Cons

  • More international.
  • Best Spanish translation.
  • Best prices.

Most Important Features

  • Social media integrations.
  • Creating links with expiration.
  • It's easy use.

Return on Investment

  • Best audience measurement
  • marketing aid
  • it is a practical program

Alternatives Considered

Bitly

Other Software Used

BitLocker Drive Encryption, BoxOffice, Google for Jobs

Short.cm is Easy and Crisp!

Incentivized
Aditya Reddy BhavanamView profile
Lead Software Test Engineer in Information Technology at IAG (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • Provides crisp URLs
  • Easy to use
  • Gives us tips

Cons

  • I would like to be able to hover over the short URL to show the original URL when the original is too big.

Most Important Features

  • Makes everything short
  • Easy and fast

Return on Investment

  • It makes things easy, especially for IT development & QA people.
  • It gives only 1000 links under the free version, which might too little for a big organization.

Short.cm makes your long links shorter

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Social Media (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Short.cm could have integrated themselves into daily apps like Gmail, Twitter, etc so users do not need to go to the website, shorten the link and go back to their messaging tool.
  • Request short.cm to provide more features in the basic/free version of their software.
  • I do not see Short.cm doing enough marketing for their software to be used by general internet users.

Most Important Features

  • Shortening of long help articles.
  • Make links more appealing and clickbait.
  • Customise links and let the audience know what's inside. Example: https://z.xyz.com/CustomerComplaints.

Return on Investment

  • More user satisfaction on shortening links.
  • Easy navigation of the software and accessibility.
  • No extra steps are included in shortening links. Just paste the long link and get the shortened one.

Alternatives Considered

MyShorten

Other Software Used

Slack, OneLogin, Sprinklr Social Engagement & Sales

Best Link Shortener on The Market.

Incentivized
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • Link Shortening.
  • UTM Tracking.
  • Link Organizing.

Cons

  • More user-friendly management of links.
  • The ability to bulk edit tags.
  • The ability to manage tags more

Most Important Features

  • Link Shortening.
  • UTM Tracking.

Return on Investment

  • Allows for saving time when trying to find links that are commonly accessed.
  • Creating processes around accessing links.
  • Aggregating referral codes to ensure they are used more often.

Other Software Used

Copper, Dialpad Talk, Slite

Simple and efficient

Incentivized
Verified User
Executive in Corporate (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • Shorten links.
  • Track clicks.
  • Manage links.

Cons

  • More features.
  • More instructions.
  • Clearer guidance.

Most Important Features

  • Short links.
  • Tracking.
  • Organizing.

Return on Investment

  • Track clicks.
  • Track marketing efforts.
  • Track sales.

Alternatives Considered

Bitly

Other Software Used

Hootsuite, Constant Contact, Axtria SalesIQ

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