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Built by the team behindYouTube Shorts

Launch world-class
video experiences

The fastest-growing companies use ShortKit to launch TikTok-grade video experiences on their own surfaces.

Built by the team behindYouTube Shorts

Vertical video can move your product forward.

Owned media surfaces keep the attention, the data and the revenue inside your product, not on someone else’s platform.

Marketplaces & commerce

  • Seller walkthroughs
  • Video-led discovery
  • Live selling

Bring seller videos, product walkthroughs, and live selling into the path from discovery to purchase. Connect each video to the listing, product, or seller behind it.

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Community & consumer apps

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Publishers & entertainment

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“ShortKit helped us launch video experiences we’re proud of in two weeks instead of two quarters. Video is helping us become the social hub for winter sports.”
Brody SanchezCo-founder & CPO, Shredder
“ShortKit gives us the flexibility to build exactly the video experience we want for Reco, without having to become a video engineering company. Our engineers can focus on what makes Reco special, while ShortKit handles the complexity behind video.”
Leibel HechtCo-founder & CTO, Reco Social
“ShortKit helped us launch video experiences we’re proud of in two weeks instead of two quarters. Video is helping us become the social hub for winter sports.”
Brody SanchezCo-founder & CPO, Shredder
“ShortKit gives us the flexibility to build exactly the video experience we want for Reco, without having to become a video engineering company. Our engineers can focus on what makes Reco special, while ShortKit handles the complexity behind video.”
Leibel HechtCo-founder & CTO, Reco Social
“ShortKit helped us launch video experiences we’re proud of in two weeks instead of two quarters. Video is helping us become the social hub for winter sports.”
Brody SanchezCo-founder & CPO, Shredder
“ShortKit gives us the flexibility to build exactly the video experience we want for Reco, without having to become a video engineering company. Our engineers can focus on what makes Reco special, while ShortKit handles the complexity behind video.”
Leibel HechtCo-founder & CTO, Reco Social

Your video can’t afford to buffer.

Your users judge every swipe against TikTok and Reels, and they don’t wait around when it falls short.

  • 400ms

    Any slower to start and viewers begin swiping away.

  • 1 stall

    The first rebuffer is where most viewers give up.

  • 24,000+

    Android devices to get right, from flagships to five-year-old budget phones.

  • $500k+

    A year, on average, for a team keeping an in-house video stack competitive.

Your full video stack.

The stack the big social apps built in-house, ready for yours.

Native SDKs

Playback as smooth as TikTok and Instagram.

ML-driven buffer management and bandwidth estimation, codec selection and more. Built for every stack.

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • React Native
  • Flutter
  • Web

Uploads, imports & transcoding

Social imports from TikTok & Instagram or uploads from your community. All optimized for mobile playback.

Global delivery

Multi-CDN, adaptive to every connection.

Live streaming

LL-HLS and WebRTC, straight into the feed.

Recommendations

Feeds that learn every viewer.

Analytics

Watch time, engagement, playback quality.

Monetization

Native ads, wired to your ad stack.

And more

  • Captions
  • Moderation
  • Protected playback
  • Carousels
  • Creator uploads
  • Watermarking
  • Content portal

Frequently Asked Questions

Let’s look at what video can do in your product.

We’ll show you how ShortKit can upgrade the video experience in your app, whether you’re starting fresh or already run video in-house.

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