Issuu

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Content creation and distribution software for creators

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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Issuu Software - Easy upload and integrations. Issuu integrates with various third-party systems such as Adobe InDesign and Canva but also with Google Drive, Dropbox, Google Docs, and more.
Issuu Software - Drive traffic by adding links and video to your PDF. Links transform your document into an interactive, connected reading experience that can help drive traffic and boost conversions.
Issuu Software - Once your publication is published you have a variety of ways to distribute it across your channels.
Issuu Software - Detect links automatically, or add them anytime. If your original PDF contains links, they will be automatically activated and become clickable when you upload your PDF to Issuu. If you need to add more links, you can easily do that  in our editor.
Issuu Software - Transform PDFs into online flipbooks, and retain visual design aesthetics, optimized for all devices.
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Issuu Software - Easy upload and integrations. Issuu integrates with various third-party systems such as Adobe InDesign and Canva but also with Google Drive, Dropbox, Google Docs, and more.
Issuu Software - Drive traffic by adding links and video to your PDF. Links transform your document into an interactive, connected reading experience that can help drive traffic and boost conversions.
Issuu Software - Once your publication is published you have a variety of ways to distribute it across your channels.
Issuu Software - Detect links automatically, or add them anytime. If your original PDF contains links, they will be automatically activated and become clickable when you upload your PDF to Issuu. If you need to add more links, you can easily do that  in our editor.
Issuu Software - Transform PDFs into online flipbooks, and retain visual design aesthetics, optimized for all devices.

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4.6 /5
(147)
Value for Money
4.1/5
Features
4.4/5
Ease of Use
4.6/5
Customer Support
4.1/5

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Melissa
Melissa
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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.

Jully
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  • 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

Ivan Enrique
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  • 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.

Allié
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  • 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. :)

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  • 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.

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Issuu FAQs

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Issuu offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$19.00/month
  • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Issuu has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Issuu supports the following languages:

English

Issuu supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

Issuu integrates with the following applications:

Adobe Creative Cloud Express, Adobe InDesign, Canva, Dropbox Backup, Google Docs, Google Drive, Hootsuite, HubSpot CMS Hub, Mailchimp

Issuu offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base

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