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Brightcove Social allows you to easily publish videos in your Video Cloud account out to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Before you can publish videos, you must create publishing destinations for the social accounts you wish to publish videos to. For information on creating publishing destinations, see Creating Social Media Publishing Destinations.

To publish a video to a social media site, follow these steps.

  1. In the primary navigation, click Social.
  2. Click Videos in the left navigation. A list of videos in your Video Cloud account will display. Videos that haven't been published to a social media account will display a Status of Never Published. Videos that have been published will display Check Status. Click the link to see the publishing status of the video on the social media destinations.
  3. Click on a video to publish and then Publish.
  4. Enter the content for the post. The video fields that are displayed will differ depending on the social media platform you are publishing to. For more information, see the sections for each social media platform:
  5. Click Next .
  6. Review the post and click Publish .

For information on viewing the status of publishing streams, see Viewing Your Social Media Publishing Streams.

Creating a post for YouTube

By default, videos that are up to 15 minutes long can be uploaded to YouTube. For information on uploading longer videos, see Enabling Longer Videos In YouTube.

When choosing a YouTube destination, the following video details can be entered:

Creating a post for Facebook

When choosing a Facebook destination, the following video details can be entered:

Configuring advanced settings

Creating a post for Twitter

When choosing a Twitter destination, the following video details can be entered:

Creating a post for LinkedIn

When choosing a LinkedIn destination, the following video details can be entered:

Creating a post for Instagram

When choosing an Instagram destination, the following video details can be entered:

Creating a post for Pinterest

When choosing a Pinterest destination, the following video details can be entered:

Manually uploading a captions file

Some social destinations provide the option of upload captions when a video is being published to social media. Follow these steps to upload a caption file.

  1. When creating a social post, select the Upload captions option.
  2. Click Upload.
  3. Browse and select a captions file. The captions file should be in .VTT or .SRT format.
  4. Select the caption Language.
  5. Click  Add caption file.

Caption files can be removed by clicking the ellipsis next to the file and then by clicking Remove.