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 ...

Mark Josphephson is the CEO of Bitly. Catch his talk at TNW Europe in Amsterdam this May alongside 130 other top-flight speakers. The year was 2011. Bitly was at a crossroads. Over the previous three ...

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 ...

Don't call it "link shortening." That was the old Bitly, back when one of the most pressing concerns in digital was sharing links too long for Twitter's character count. And back when Bitly was the ...

Bitly began in 2008 by solving a simple problem for consumers: Links were too long for Twitter’s 140-character limit. So it shortened them. As far as technical solutions go, building a link shortener ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Less than two weeks after closing its bulk link-shortening “bundles” ...

It’s been over four months since Bitly’s CEO Peter Stern abruptly resigned back in March without a successor in place. Stern, who co- founded messaging and collaboration service Zenbe, which was ...

You might think of Bitly simply as a service that shortens links for your Twitter feed. But to Hilary Mason, the company’s chief scientist, Bitly is building a fresh new way to know what’s going on in ...

When it comes to exciting app launch news, a link shortener probably isn’t exactly high on your list. But for those of us that shorten dozens of links every day for social media, having a dedicated ...

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