bitly vs hive

Bitly is one of the oldest and largest link shorteners, meaning you can trust that it won't go away anytime soon.

You can set up bitly to use a custom domain, so you don't have to develop or maintain your own.

When people see a bit.ly link, they don't usually think, "ooh sketchy link".

The bitly API provides jsonp callbacks, XML, CORS, and data metrics. The API is simple, and easy to use with good documentation. It is clearly thought out and is up to date with support for new API technologies.

Bitly provides bit.ly bitly.com and j.mp

If character count matters, you cannot get a domain shorter than j.mp

Anti spam measure and tools mean people that follow your bitly links can be confident that they won't lead to a dangerous site. Bitly links cannot be changed, meaning a trusted link will stay safe.

Bitly has a bookmarklet for creating short links very quickly.

With only 15$/month you can do a lot of things in Hive, from Branded domain to modals, polls, billboards and more.

We are adding Polls into Hive so you can have everything you need in one awesome Dashboard.

Hive premium has a Billboards feature that can be used to show an add before the redirect.

Business version also alows you to have white label billboards, extended reports, UTM codes, Device redirect

Shortened links can be password-protected so that only people with the password may get redirected.

Clicks for each link with date, IP, country, referrer can be viewed from the dashboard. Premium users are allowed to export the data as a CSV file.

Can create QR-Code's that will redirect to the desired page.

The pro version allows branded domains as well as offers a selection of short domains to choose from.

An app for Android is available on Google Play and Amazon.