Backed by Y Combinator
Short-form video
for news publishers.
Add TikTok-style video feeds to your app and website, with no video engineering team required. Engage mobile audiences and unlock new revenue.
Launch in days, not months.
ShortKit gives your engineering team a drop-in SDK that handles the entire video experience: player, feed, infrastructure and analytics. Your team focuses on editorial, not video plumbing.
Connect your content
Integrate with your CMS or upload directly. ShortKit handles transcoding, thumbnails, and captions automatically.
Drop in the experience
Your engineering team adds the ShortKit SDK to your iOS, Android, or web app. A few lines of code, full video feed.
Engage & monetize
Your audience gets a native vertical video experience. You get engagement analytics, ad revenue, and first-party data.
Built for news and media.
Optimized for time on site
Feed architecture designed for endless, smooth scrolling that keeps audiences engaged longer with your content.
Built for mobile audiences
Reach readers where they are - optimized for mobile-first consumption on any device and any network.
Designed for editorial control
Full control over feed curation, content ordering, and presentation - your editorial voice, amplified.
Intelligent recommendation system
Surface the right stories to the right readers. Our recommendation engine learns audience preferences to maximize engagement and keep viewers watching.
Reliable at any scale.
Enterprise-grade video infrastructure that handles breaking news spikes without breaking a sweat.
Transcoding & global delivery
Every upload is automatically transcoded into adaptive bitrate streams and delivered through a global CDN. Your audience gets the best quality their connection supports, on any device.
Breaking news ready
Auto-scaling infrastructure that handles traffic spikes without intervention. When a story goes viral, your video experience stays fast and reliable.
Fast first frame
Video delivered in precisely managed chunks for immediate playback. Audiences see content instantly - critical for keeping attention in a competitive news landscape.
Everything your newsroom needs.
Works with your CMS
ShortKit connects directly to your existing editorial systems. Pull content from your CMS programmatically or push through our APIs - no migration required.
Native ad integration
Monetize your video feed with native ad placements that feel part of the experience. Integrate with your existing ad stack - no rebuilding your revenue pipeline.
Editorial analytics
Every play, swipe, completion, and replay captured automatically. Watch time, drop-off points, and engagement patterns - understand which stories resonate and why.
Video content pipeline
Every upload is transcoded, thumbnailed and captioned in 50+ languages automatically, from newsroom to audience in minutes.
Audience submissions
Accept video submissions from your audience at any scale. Built-in auto moderation keeps quality high - perfect for tiplines, citizen journalism, and community engagement.
Live coverage
Stream breaking news live into the feed, then keep the replay on demand. Low latency, no separate player or pipeline.
See ShortKit in action.
Book a demo and we’ll show you what short-form video can do for your newsroom.
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