What is Emberhop and how does it work?

Emberhop is a document embedding platform. You upload a PDF, Emberhop processes it into a fast online viewer, and you get a short snippet of code to paste into your website. Visitors read the document inside your page without ever leaving your site, and you can see exactly who read it and how far they got.

The whole system has three main parts: the viewer embed, the lead gate, and the analytics dashboard. Each one is useful on its own, but they work best together.

How it works in four steps

Getting from a PDF file to a live embedded viewer takes just a few minutes. Here is the basic flow:

Upload your PDF: Go to your Emberhop dashboard, click "New document", and drag in your file. Emberhop processes it into a web-ready viewer within a minute or two.

Configure the lead gate: Choose which page number should trigger the lead gate (the form visitors fill in to keep reading). You can also turn it off completely for public documents.

Copy your embed code: Once the document is ready, copy the snippet from the "Embed" tab. It is a short script tag that you paste into your website HTML or CMS.

Publish and track: As soon as visitors land on the page with your embed, Emberhop starts recording views, clicks, and lead conversions. You can check the analytics dashboard any time.

The lead gate

The lead gate is the part most people find most useful. When a visitor reaches the page you have set as the trigger, the viewer pauses and shows a short form asking for a name, email address, and optionally a company name. Once they fill it in, the document continues and their details appear in your Emberhop leads list.

You control where the gate appears. If you set it at page three, the first two pages are freely readable. That gives visitors enough content to decide the document is worth their email address, which tends to produce better quality contacts than a gate on page one.

The lead gate turns passive readers into identified contacts without any form-builder plugins or third-party tools.

What the analytics tell you

Every time someone loads your embed, Emberhop records an impression. Every time they turn a page, that is a click event. Combine those two numbers and you can see your completion rate: the share of people who actually read to the end.

The analytics dashboard breaks this down by document, by referrer domain, and by time period. If a document is getting lots of views from one particular website, you will see that domain in the referrer breakdown. That tells you which channels are sending engaged readers and which are sending people who leave after the first page.

Good to know

All Emberhop data is stored in the EU. We do not use US-based cloud providers for any customer or visitor data. This makes it straightforward to comply with GDPR without needing to worry about data transfer agreements.

Who uses Emberhop?

Emberhop is used by marketing teams, sales teams, and content publishers who share PDFs as part of their work. Common use cases include whitepapers, product brochures, case studies, annual reports, and technical documentation. The lead gate is particularly popular for gated content programs where you want to collect contacts before someone downloads or reads a full report.

If you are just getting started, the Free plan gives you three documents at no cost. That is enough to try the embed on your site, test the lead gate, and see how the analytics dashboard works. When you are ready for more, the Essential and Pro plans expand your document limit and monthly lead quota.