Bitly, the popular link management platform, was in a little bit of a rut in 2013. Though they were doing well, link shortening was fast becoming an impacted space, and just shortening links wasn’t ...

Bitly had pretty much positioned itself as the leading URL shortener in a sea of way too many options, by offering its users a set of robust features – analytics, Bitly bundles, and more. With its ...

Bitly was known as the de facto Twitter link shortener back in 2008. As that business commoditized – and Twitter, Google and other platforms released their own versions – Bitly recognized its real ...

We use URL shortening services so often these days we're seldom even aware of them. Until, that is, one of them fails. Today, one of the most popular of these, Bitly, stopped working for some users.

Is Bitly quietly becoming a platform company? The link cruncher rolled out Tuesday the Bitly Certified Partner Program with inaugural partners Percolate, Spredfast, Buffer, Sprinklr, IFTTT, Dynamic ...

Ever wonder how The New York Times shortens its links on Twitter to “nyti.ms,” followed by some combo of letters and numbers? If not, maybe you should. In 2010 social media traffic to news sites ...

Bitly, famous for its ubiquitous link-shortening service, has announced new deep-linking functionality designed to help marketers increase mobile app engagement and installs. The New York-based ...

Google recently announced they will shut down their URL shortener, Goo.gl. Google will cease service for any new or anonymous users on April 13. Although existing users can continue to use the goo.gl ...

Bitly, a popular service that allows users to create shortened or even customized URLs, and track how that shortened link is shared over time, issued a mysterious security update Thursday evening. In ...