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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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Verified User in Online Media
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Shorthand?

Shorthand is great and makes it super easy to make very impressive looking stories that really come to life and engage audiences. It is really easy to use and the consistent additions and new developments means we can always keep our content fresh. The team at Shorthand are also very helpful and are incredibly quick to respond if there are any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

There isn't much to dislike about Shorthand, and will be great to see the platform continue to develop more and more new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Making it much easier and much quicker to create impressive looking content for our website. It is also working well to engage audiences and keep them on the page for longer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JW
Senior Media Manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shorthand?

Shorthand is an excellent tool, that me and my team couldn't be without. It's intuitive, creative and visually appealing, and the support behind the scenes is also excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

Nothing! I've had no problems with Shorthand so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With Shorthand, my team and I can tell stories in a visually appealing and engaging way. When we build something using Shorthand, we always receive excellent feedback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DC
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Shorthand?

Easy dashboard and simple story building platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

Would like wider font selection to create better headlnes etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Allows stories to come to life - readers know they are in for a different experience when they use see a Shorthand feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Shorthand is a powerful tool, we enjoyed creating with it since it is really user-friendly and minimalistic. It really helped us create engaging landing pages and improve conversions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

nothing at all! It is a poweful tool and at the moment the only limitations I see are the ones related to image quality but overall it is great and I believe it will improve with the years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

the opportunity to generate landing pages without involving external agencies and developers. It is helpful because it saves time and give us more freedom to structure pages the way we want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The templates and how easy it is to use! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

Nothing specific. Sometimes i got annoyned that i have to use a graphic designer for outstand concepts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Creating long-form content without using a developer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SM
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Shorthand?

I love how it allows you to easily create impactful stories in no time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

I would like it to have a wider variety of templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Impactful storytelling in journalism Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospitality
AH
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Shorthand?

Shorthand is very easy to use and it makes our newsletter more engaging and easy to read. The images and videos are very simple to just drag and drop into the editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

If the text box sizes were able to be editable, it could be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Shorthand helped our newsletter go digital instead of continuing to be printed every month. We are spending less and our members are reading more! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AJ
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Shorthand?

The easy-to-use section templates and tools like "Projects" make creating stories fun. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

As a graphic designer, I want to create more complex designs, and we are sometimes limited if there are more flexible options to create more complex layouts without using codes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Shorthand makes presentations come to life instead of using boring PowerPoint to present data/information. Keeps viewers interested and engaged with the content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GW
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Shorthand?

I use shorthand for sales presentations. The feedback from potential clients is always positive and now and then clients do respond with a thanks for the professional proposal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

Seems to take a lot of memory from the computer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Vibrant sales presentations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LN
Content creator
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Shorthand?

The simplicity. It is very quick to create something that is incredibly beautiful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Shorthand?

I've stayed up all night trying to figure out what I don't like. But I can't find one Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I stand out when I share links that are written in Shorthand. It creates a WOW factor and makes it easier to keep the reader engaged. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.