We support stories for Instagram Business accounts and Facebook pages!
Instagram single video or image stories can be automatically published. If you'd like to use stickers or links, then you also have the option to manually publish with the help of reminders.
Facebook stories can be published with the help of reminders.
A story can also be scheduled with multiple images, multiple videos, or a combination of the two with a maximum of 10 media files.
How to create stories for scheduling:
Select Instagram or Facebook in Post Builder
In the fine-tuning section, select "Stories" by clicking on the toggle
Upload an image or a video with the right format for a story (1080px by 1920px)
💡 Pro tip: if you don't have an image on hand, just use our Unsplash integration to search for a portrait version of an image and then make edits to the uploaded image with Loomly Studio.
You can then choose to Save as Draft, Submit for Approval, Schedule, or Publish Now
In the Post View, you'll be able to preview and collaborate with your team on your Story:
How to automatically publish Instagram stories
Instagram stories with one attached image or video can be automatically published.
Instagram has media requirements on the types of stories that can be automatically published. If your attached image or video doesn't meet these specifications, then the story will need to be manually published with the help of reminders.
📝 Note:
Captions are not available through the API for automatic publishing, but you can add a text overlay to an image or video using our built-in image & video editor: Loomly Studio.
If you would like to add stickers, then you can select the manual publishing method and use reminders instead.
Automatic publishing will be the default selection unless your attached media does not meet Instagram's requirements. In this case, Manual publishing will be selected by default without the ability to select automatic publishing until you've fixed the issues identified.
Please remove any additional media files or update your image to meet Instagram's requirements to have automatic publishing available.
Image requirements for automatic publishing
Format: JPEG
File size: 8 MB maximum.
Aspect ratio: We recommended 9:16 to avoid cropping or blank spaces
Color Space: sRGB. Images using other color spaces will have their color spaces converted to sRGB
Video requirements for automatic publishing
Container: MOV or MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14), no edit lists, moov atom at the front of the file.
Audio codec: AAC, 48khz sample rate maximum, 1 or 2 channels (mono or stereo).
Video codec: HEVC or H264, progressive scan, closed GOP, 4:2:0 chroma subsampling.
Frame rate: 23-60 FPS.
Picture size:
Maximum columns (horizontal pixels): 1920
Required aspect ratio is between 0.1:1 and 10:1 but we recommend 9:16 to avoid cropping or blank space
Video bitrate: VBR, 25Mbps maximum
Audio bitrate: 128kbps
Duration: 60 seconds maximum, 3 seconds minimum
File size: 100MB maximum
How to publish Stories with the help of reminders:
When it is time to post, you will receive a push notification from Loomly's mobile app. This will open the Instagram or Facebook app with the picture(s) / video(s) saved.
When the Instagram app opens, you will be able to choose between a story or feed. Choose Story and then add any Instagram stickers you like and publish it.
When the Facebook app opens, click Create story, add any stickers you like, and publish the story.
📝 Note:
You can add Swipe Up links or link stickers as you are manually publishing using Loomly's reminders if you have over 10,000 followers or are a verified Instagram account.
We support Instagram story analytics in Advanced Analytics. You can also filter stories by Post Labels.
Learn more about what you can do with Instagram in Loomly by watching this webinar!