Creators
Short links for creators you can say out loud and change later
Short links for creators have to work after the caption locks and while the video stays up for years. A CTAurl link is easy to say on camera and can change after posting.
Last reviewed 27 October 2026 by the CTAurl team
Say it
A short link you can read on camera and type from memory
A short link for video has to survive being spoken. Nobody can read abc.yz/7Kd92Xb aloud without spelling it, while buy-it.now/sneaker is two everyday words and a product name. Your viewers can type it after hearing it, and it still makes sense when a friend forwards it without the video.
In Asia, a forwarded link often lands in a chat app. LINE has about 100 million monthly users in Japan and 54 million in Thailand, according to LY Corporation, March 2026, and KakaoTalk had about 48.9 million monthly users in Korea in the second quarter of 2024, according to Kakao (August 2024). A link that names the action reads like the offer in a chat, in English or with a CTA domain in your viewers' language.
Change it
Change the link after the caption locks
When a brand switches landing pages after your post is live, open the link in CTAurl, paste the new page and save. The very next tap on every post, story and video description that carries the link opens the new page, and the caption itself never changes.
Prove it
One link per platform, one count each
To show a brand which platform worked, make one CTAurl link for each platform, all pointing at the same page. When the brand asks, you have a count for each instead of one total. The counts are requests, not people: they include link previews, bots and security scanners.
See link analyticsFrequently asked questions
Can I change the link after the caption is locked?
Yes. The CTAurl address in your caption stays the same, and you change where it goes in the CTAurl workspace. The next tap after you save opens the new page, and the caption itself never changes.
Should I use one link or one per platform?
Use one link per platform if you want to know which platform worked. Make buy-it.now/sneaker-ig and buy-it.now/sneaker-yt, point both at the same page, and each one reports its own count. One link for everything gives you a single total. The Free plan covers a few platforms: it allows 8 new ctaurl.me links and 2 new CTA-domain links a month.
Will a Chinese or Thai link work in my viewers' apps?
A Chinese or Thai CTAurl link opens the same page everywhere, but some apps show or link non-Latin addresses differently, and we have not tested every app. Send yourself a test in the app your viewers use before a big post, and keep an English CTA domain such as buy-it.now as the fallback.