Overview

ShareThis provides easy-to-install, customizable social share buttons and publishing tools that let website owners add inline, sticky, image and video share widgets to pages. The platform focuses on fast deployment (copy-paste script or plugins), broad social network coverage (40+ channels), built-in analytics and regional smart button selection to maximize sharing and audience growth. The service is offered as a web platform where customers register to generate their site code and manage placements and settings.

Features and Capabilities

• Core Offering: Inline, Sticky, Image and Video Share Buttons — configurable placements and sizes; supports share counts and CTA.
• Smart Share Buttons: Auto-detects visitor geolocation and prioritizes region-popular channels automatically.
• Network Coverage: Supports sharing to 40+ social channels and services, including mainstream and regional networks.
• Customization: Design controls for alignment, size, color, and button set so buttons match brand styling.
• Mobile Optimization: Responsive widgets designed to work across device sizes and viewports.
• Plugins & Integrations: Official plugins and integrations for WordPress, Shopify, React, Angular and Cloudflare for simplified installation.
• Image & Video Sharing: Special image and video share buttons that enable one-click sharing of visual assets (with image size/format requirements).
• Analytics: Basic analytics/dashboard showing what content is shared and which channels perform best.
• Free to Use / Account-based: Core share buttons are provided free; users register for the platform to configure and get unique embed code.
• Developer Support: Official GitHub packages and SDKs (example: ShareThis React package) to integrate programmatically.