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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Overall rating

4.6 /5
(149)
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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Caio
Caio
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The best digital publishing website

Reviewed on 14/2/2023

Pros

The embed option is perfect for showcasing your content, from books to magazines, on your website or blog. You can also sell your publishing using their own marketplace.

Cons

You have a limitation for unlisted publications on the free account, this could be increased since it helps to proof unpublished materials.

Chris
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  • Industry: Newspapers
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Indispensable publishing tool

Reviewed on 24/8/2023

Pros

Works very reliably. Clean interface. Has become the standard.

Cons

Need a button on purchase page for nonprofit publications. (Live chat worked well, but could avoid getting to that.)

Ivan Enrique
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  • Industry: Music
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • 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.

Marcus
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  • Industry: Photography
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Issuu. Free use.

Reviewed on 4/5/2023

Issuu is very good. It is professional. It’s quick and easy to use and you have a permanent link to...

Issuu is very good. It is professional. It’s quick and easy to use and you have a permanent link to the final product.

Pros

Issuu is easy to use. It’s professional and it is sleek. The design is very nice. The ease of access is good. Not to mention the actual final product is very very professional and of high quality.

Cons

The pay wall. You can only upload 50 pages for free and with a limit of 50MB. This is okay for small projects but for portfolios you have to be precise with the amount of pages and use compression software.

Alternatives Considered

Publuu

Reasons for Choosing Issuu

Publuu blocked use via pay wall.

Switched From

Publuu

Reasons for Switching to Issuu

Publuu was more expensive.
Iss
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  • Industry: Photography
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for Free Trial
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Issuu review

Reviewed on 3/7/2023

Pros

Easy to use, my project is still visible after the free trial

Cons

Price, for a private user is non too accessible

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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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