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Shorthand Overview

What is Shorthand?

Shorthand is the beautifully simple storytelling platform that helps the world's iconic brands tell their most important stories. Shorthand empowers content creators, designers, and developers to publish visual stories with up to 10x higher audience engagement, in a fraction of the time. Global organisations such as Honda, the BBC, and Dow Jones use Shorthand to engage their high value audiences on their owned properties. Shorthand’s simple yet powerful no-code editor allows anyone to create, edit, and publish stunning reading experiences in minutes. Features such as prebuilt templates, AI-powered auto layout, and PDF import accelerate your content development and let you focus on the story. Workflow and collaboration tools ensure your team is on the same page. Users can publish their Shorthand content nearly anywhere — via AWS, their CMS, Shorthand hosting, or embedding directly on their website. The Shorthand team is a band of geeks with art and heart, dedicated to helping content teams build the world’s most impressive and impactful digital content.

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Product Description

Shorthand enables publishers, marketing teams, corporate communications teams, and agencies to create engaging multimedia stories.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Shorthand is built for storytellers — not developers or web designers. Everything about our platform is designed and engineered so that non-technical humans can quickly produce premium, immersive content. This allows marketing, media, and communications teams to scale their storytelling and — ultimately — get better results.


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Company Website
Year Founded
2013
HQ Location
Brisbane, Australia
Twitter
@Shorthand
3,279 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
63 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Shorthand enables iconic news and brand publishers to reach new levels of engagement by creating immersive reads in record time.


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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Interactive storytelling for higher education"
The modern features make students feel like they are working at the level of the leading media organisations that use Shorthand. The platform is sl...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.0 out of 5
"Shorthand stories look nice but are not user friendly"
I like the ability to make stories more creative than just text on a page. I also like how easy it is to collaborate on stories, share them, and pr...
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Kara P.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great tool for creating visually compelling stories"
Shorthand has allowed us to easily add visual interest to our stories. We ended the print version of our magazine in the summer of 2024, and wanted...
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Country Information Technology Manager and GDPR Controller
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shorthand?

You can create landing or minisites right away quickly and impressive at the same time. Obviously you can't manage them as they would be created with a CMS, but these are different products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

Shorthand could grow so much with more modules to add inside their creative layout. I know that this could not be the right objective, anyway this could help a lot agencies and clients that need to create quickly different typologies of landing pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quick creation of landing pages, or minisites with their new site collection builder. So quick creation and impressive. The final result is always appreciated from client side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AN
Creative Director
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shorthand?

Reveal section and text over media section, customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

The tool of font size controling and line spaces Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you?

Help me to visualizing the analytical articles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NL
Principal, Workplace Design & Construction
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Shorthand?

It was a great platform for creating high design presentation material for our C-Suite stakeholders to take them on a case study journey. The interface was super intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

I'd say, I wish there were more options of page styles and even more functionality...mostly because more just means we can use this in a multitude of ways. But it definitely outperforms several other methods, as-is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you?

The design and fluidity that it is capable of, is really allowing it to shine over other platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NM
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shorthand?

Shorthand is a fantastic tool for publishers looking for an interactive and highly visual way of telling stories. New features are regularly released meaning Customer service is great; when I've had any issues with the platform the team has always been very responsive and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

I can't think of many things to dislike about Shorthand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you?

We don't have in-house developer capacity to dedicate to creative multimedia articles, and yet there is appetite among our partners, clients, and our in-house news team for this type of content. Shorthand enables us, with very limited technical capacity, to tell the kinds of engaging, visually rich stories that we want to tell. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

QL
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shorthand?

It's very easy to make new beautiful templates and everyone can use it without any knowledge of coding. It saves much time and removes all burdens for the newsroom. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

I am happy with what Shorthand offers and I don't have anything to complain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you?

I do not have many coders in the newsroom while I need to produce many long-form stories which attract readers and make them spend longer time on the website. With Shorthand, my team can produce good stories as fast as 30 or even 15 minutes. In the past we could only produce one story every week. Now we can produce long-form stories every day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LC
Data Journalist
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shorthand?

The most helpful things about Shorthand are its story editor —which allows non-coders to create professional scrollytelling projects— and the aesthetics of the projects —highly customizable with amazing results Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

I'm overall deeply satisfied with my Shorthand experience, but if I had to say the least useful things about this software, would be the limited transitions in Reveal section. Besides, I'd like to be able to use videos in some sections in which, so far, only pictures are allowed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us to engage more our readers and it has upgraded the quality of how we showcase our content Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JA
VP, Business Analyst - Group Technology
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shorthand?

Shorthand has allowed us to create super engaging web content without the need for more complex systems or having to get developers involved. The Shorthand customer success team have been most helpful in getting us up and running. The ability to publish in various ways is also a plus point.

Shorthand's scrollmation and reveal sections are gamechanges, and used correctly can make web content jump off the screen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

The fundamentals of the platform are excellent but we're still looking at ways to move beyond that, understand usage and readership data better and have more control as an adminstrator. But improvements are coming down the line. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ability for non developers to create and publish engaging web content. Allows us to understand readership metrics and push the boundaries of the type of content we can create. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HR
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shorthand?

Shorthand is a superb tool for quickly building microsites and immersive landing pages to showcase immersive digital stories or long-form content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

I honestly cannot think of anything I dislike about Shorthand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you?

Shorthand allows us to integrate multiple content types (editorial, video, sound, social posts, imagery etc) into our CMS via a Drupal API. The tool is super-easy to use and enables non-tech savvy users to get quickly up to speed. We typically use Shorthand to showcase thought leadership events, long-form stories and to power the Careers section of our website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AE
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Shorthand?

I enjoy making the premium content we create as engaging as possible for fans. The platform helps us do just that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

There is nothing on top of mind that I dislike about Shorthand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you?

Shorthand allows us to easily create premium longform content for our website. It helps us produce a top-level experience for fans, from presentation to taking the users on a journey when they explore an article created using Shorthand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

WR
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Shorthand?

The continuious changes to the platform, adding new features to promote creativity across our content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

Some of the rigid structures, I would be nice to be able to customise the pages a little more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Shorthand solving and how is that benefiting you?

Stops reliance on Development teams, we can create engaging wesbites from little input from other teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.