Issuu
About Issuu
Issuu is a content creation and distribution software designed to help businesses in publishing, real estate, education, travel, sports, and other industries transform PDF, images, or text into digital content and share them across social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and more. Designers can embed magazines, personalized sales collateral, and marketing catalogs on corporate websites and optimize content to improve rankings or outreach on search engines.
Using Issuu, publishers can create custom reading experiences for audiences by adding background colors or logos to the interface and creating, distributing, and promoting content using visual stories and virtual subscriptions. Marketers can create articles, GIFs, presentations, brochures, or catalogs, drive campaigns across social platforms, and monitor the number of reads, impressions, or average time spent by audiences. Designers can also share created content with employees, targeted audiences, or customers and collaborate with editorial teams to handle approvals.
Issuu integrates with various third-party systems such as Dropbox, Google Docs, Adobe InDesign, and Google Drive. Managers can also track the status or deadlines on tasks, assign articles to team members, and create visual stories for Facebook and Instagram to engage with followers.
Key benefits of Issuu
• Integrate Issuu into your marketing tech stack to automate content marketing and distribution for web, blog, social, email and more.
• Transform PDFs into online flipbooks, and retain visual design aesthetics, optimized for mobile
• Easily embed videos and live links into flat designs to make content more engaging and interactive
• Embed content into websites, blogs, landing pages, and LMSs
• Remix content into stories for Instagram and Facebook, GIFs for email campaigns and more.
• Measure campaign success with statistics.
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- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Easy way to add print publications to website
Reviewed on 31/01/2021
Pros
I like the embed code option with personalization and the shelf option for multiple publications
Cons
No longer allow embeds for the free version.
- Industry: Information Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Issuu is more than a tool for reading
Reviewed on 14/01/2023
Great, I`ve been using in the app for over 5 years and I 've always liked the features offered
Great, I`ve been using in the app for over 5 years and I 've always liked the features offered
Pros
It os available as an app and website, has several gentes for Reading and studying and ins free.
Cons
Not having much content in. The portuguese language
- Industry: Music
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Perusal Material
Reviewed on 22/12/2020
I am rather satisfied with the product.
I am rather satisfied with the product.
Pros
The opportunity to upload original material for others to peruse in a personal website is good. The ability to maintain it secure could be better but is also good.
Cons
I would love it to be more affordable or have student options, or even options for super small business that don’t yet make profit.
- Industry: Philanthropy
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Why Just Read Content When You Can Experience It?
Reviewed on 29/12/2020
With Issuu, we were able to allow our audience to 'experience' content - not simply 'consume' it....
With Issuu, we were able to allow our audience to 'experience' content - not simply 'consume' it. The immersive and interactive interface gives us the ability to reach our audience in a way that resonates. We believe the very same content shared on a different platform would be a very different effect (a less impactful one). In need of a dynamic solution, as opposed to a static option, Issuu is the only platform we will use for our online magazine and resource guides.
Pros
With its ease of use and efficiency, I love the ability to repurpose and redistribute content with one asset across multiple channels. At the same time, it's entirely forgiving of human error with nearly realtime updates rendered for any and every edit.
Cons
Love to have customizable short links for the long URLS that are produced for the full screen experience. Also love to link visual stories to specific URLS. In addition, I'd love to be able to incorporate videos in article stories. :)
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Worth It, Plain & Simple
Reviewed on 17/12/2020
I love it! I'll keep using it and I consider it the industry standard for digital publication.
I love it! I'll keep using it and I consider it the industry standard for digital publication.
Pros
Issuu is fantastic, I love how smooth the user interface is, how easy it is to upload, and the ability to organize all of your publications into stacks. With nearly 1000 publications on the site, it makes distribution easy.
Cons
The newer features need to be fleshed out more. Mobile friendly article creation isn't bad, but it doesn't recognize paragraphs that stretch across 2 columns, and it struggles with photos sometimes. The article stories are a bit abysmal though, it doesn't make it easier than using Illustrator/Photoshop.
Issuu FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Issuu.Q. What type of pricing plans does Issuu offer?
Issuu offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$19.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Q. Who are the typical users of Issuu?
Issuu has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Issuu support?
Issuu supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Issuu support mobile devices?
Issuu supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Issuu integrate with?
Issuu integrates with the following applications:
Adobe Creative Cloud Express, Adobe InDesign, Canva, Dropbox Backup, Google Docs, Google Drive, Hootsuite, HubSpot CMS Hub, Mailchimp
Q. What level of support does Issuu offer?
Issuu offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base
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