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What Is Issuu?

Create your designs in your favorite tools like Adobe or Canva, upload your eBooks, brochures, whitepapers, and other demand-gen content to Issuu, and embed it behind a lead form on your landing pages. Link back to strategic web pages and leverage the power of Issuu’s SEO.

Generate a continuous stream of social and email assets on the fly, all optimized for your most effective channels. Track conversions with Google’s UTM urls and measure your success with Issuu Statistics.

Who Uses Issuu?

Issuu is popular with content marketers, magazine and catalog publishers, educators, and small businesses, especially real estate professionals, architects, and restaurateurs.

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 - Once your publication is published you have a variety of ways to distribute it across your channels.
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 - 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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Reviews of Issuu

Average score

Overall
4.6
Ease of Use
4.6
Customer Service
4.1
Features
4.4
Value for Money
4.1

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001
Bradley
Bradley
Associate professor in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Education Management, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Issuu sets the standard

5.0 4 years ago

Comments: I teach to a great variety of audiences. It's nice to know they can find my course materials easily. And once they find me, they can find all my materials in a convenient and easy-to-use form.

Pros:

The creation of the PDF format was a leap forward. Without ways to share and view PDF files, the move toward a "paperless society" was problematic at best. Issuu helped users solve that problem. With Issuu, we can upload files and share links with many users via email or social media. The interface is clean and easy to use with enough customizability to make it look clean almost anywhere.

Cons:

The one feature I miss in the free version is the ability to embed my PDF files on my websites. This is a rather basic function. I know the company has to make money and this is a feature that is worth paying for. It just hurts that it was free.

Mark
Editor in US
Entertainment, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

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Highly Recommended

5.0 4 years ago

Comments: Have used issuu for years for our publication and very satisfied.

Pros:

The ease of use and customization was second to none. We have used this service for all of our digital issues over the years and will continue to.

Cons:

We have not experienced any negative issues with the platform and highly recommend this for all your publication needs.

Natalie
Natalie
xx in Australia
Verified LinkedIn User
Staffing & Recruiting, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

Tagging explicit on 3 brochures in intended to hosted with them and send form site.

1.0 2 years ago

Pros:

My new brochures were on FB and Instagram, and I started receiving calls from my friends and, eventually, a mum concerned about the WARNING LABEL about the content; I mean Friday night, email support they would be contacted on Monday. Meanwhile, I had to spend an entire evening. removing contact from my site and email. [sensitive content hidden]The brochure is an overview of GAP YEAR travel, I'm all ears if any can show me what on watch is explicit about that. I will now spend Sunday finding a provider, this would have been catastrophic if it happened while I was removed, so NO I do not recommend this brand. Im all for keeping the internet clean, but I will NOT stand for is this. NONE opened that brochure, it was scanned and I was. Im am shocked!

Cons:

i have said enough...very discontinued in their approach to verifying if I had breached tge contract.I was not selling; I had simply used them for hosing, my brochure, mu business, and they jut swooped in and made a call that let me very unsettled.....

Daniel
Daniel
Senior Communication Designer in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Architecture & Planning, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great interface, should be free to embed

5.0 4 years ago

Comments: As an early example of e-publication software, Issuu has helped our company share content consistently for nearly a decade.

Pros:

I like the design of the reader and the ease of creating custom embedded readers most

Cons:

The major con with Issuu is that embeds and other small features that used to be free are now only available to paid users, and the cost is very high. Basic functions are bundled into packages with premium services that I do not need, so I have started using other embedded readers on our website that are free of charge.

Eugene
Eugene
Developer in Kenya
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Issuu Review

5.0 4 years ago

Comments: It a took I would recommend to anyone for managing and sharing their content online

Pros:

The ease of getting to publish my content online without any hustle.

Cons:

Navigating through the platform may be a challenge when getting started.