Bitly

Bitly
Type of site
URL shortening, bookmarks
Available inEnglish
OwnerSpectrum Equity[1]
Key peopleToby Gabriner[2] (CEO)
Employees234 (2020)[3]
URLbitly.com
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedSeptember 13, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-09-13)
Current statusActive

Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. The company Bitly, Inc. was established in 2008. It is privately held and based in New York City. Bitly shortens 600 million links per month,[4] for use in social networking, SMS, and email. Bitly makes money by charging for access to aggregate data created as a result of many people using the shortened URLs.

In 2017, Spectrum Equity acquired a majority stake in Bitly for $64 million.[1]

From November 2023, short links cannot be created anymore by guest users, requiring users to create an account.

  1. ^ a b Ha, Anthony (July 12, 2017). "Bitly sells a majority stake to Spectrum Equity for $63M". TechCrunch.
  2. ^ "Toby Gabriner - Chief Executive Officer - Bitly". LinkedIn.
  3. ^ "Bitly Company Profile". Craft.
  4. ^ Newman, Andrew Adam (1 December 2014). "Bitly Helps the Red Cross Get to Hope.ly". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.