Watch our quick video tutorial on how to connect your Facebook account to Loomly:

In this article, we'll also review:

How to connect your Facebook Page
Facebook supported media types and size limits
1. Facebook Reels requirement for automatic publishing
2. Facebook Story requirements
Facebook features

1. How to connect your Facebook account

You can connect your Facebook account from the Social Accounts tab of your Calendar Settings. Loomly supports Facebook pages:

Click on the Connect button:

All Facebook Pages are managed through the profiles of administrators. This is why you'll need to do the following to connect your Facebook page:

First connect the Facebook Profile you use to manage the Page to Loomly.
Then select the Page to finish adding it to Loomly.

2. Facebook supported media types and size limits

	Format	Size	Dimension
Image	.jpg, .png, .gif	10MB	Recommended: 1,200 x 628 pixels Aspect ratio: 4:5 to 1.91:1
Video	.mp4, .mov	Recommended: <30MB and shorter than 2 minutes Maximum: 200MB and 5 minutes
Stories and Reels	.mp4, .mov	3 to 60 seconds	Aspect ratio: 9:16 Recommended resolution: 1080 x 1920

📝 Note:

You can view the dimension and size of each piece of media you've uploaded in the Library.
You can crop your images and videos and trim videos using Loomly Studio.

Facebook Reels requirements for automatic publishing

Due to limitations with Facebook's API, there are requirements for Reels that can be automatically published:

Aspect ratio must be exactly 9:16
Minimum width of 540
Minimum height of 960
Minimum FPS of 24, maximum 60 FPS
Minimum duration of 3 and maximum duration of 90

Facebook Story requirements for automatic publishing

Image requirements

Format: JPEG or PNG
File size: 4MB maximum
Recommend size: 1MB or less, or the image may appear pixelated

Video requirements

Format: MP4 (recommended) or MOV
Aspect ratio: 9 x 16
Resolutions: 1080 x 1920 pixels (recommended); 540 x 960 pixels minimum
Frame rate: 24-60 FPS
Duration: 3 - 60 seconds

3. Facebook features

A. Post types

You can schedule the following for Facebook:

Feed Posts
Stories
Reels
Carousels which allow you to add individual links for 2 to 5 images

B. Publishing features

Additional features available for Facebook include:

Tag & @mention users
Select a video cover
Alt text
First comment scheduling

C. Interactions

From our Interactions Management section, you can respond to comments, mentions, and messenger messages for Facebook pages.

This feature is available in the toolbar of each calendar. Learn more about responding to your audience here.

D. Analytics

The Analytics dashboard offers insight into your posts' performance. To access Analytics, click on the calendar and go to the Analytics icon:

Loomly Analytics will be your best ally by empowering you to:

Get a report of Loom.ly URL click counts, sources & locations.
Dive into account-level statistics.
Get into details with Post Metrics, which includes all the analytics you need to evaluate your posts.
Filter and compare performance by date ranges to evaluate growth and get a better understanding of your success.
And last but not least, export all your analytics as a PDF or CSV and share them offline with your team!

Here are the metrics available only on your Facebook pages:

Total Reach: The number of people who have seen content associated with your page.
Organic Reach: The number of people who visited your Page or saw your Page or one of its posts in their News Feed or Ticker. These can be either be people who have liked your page or not.
Paid Reach: The number of people who saw a sponsored story or ad pointing to your Page.
Impressions: The number of times a post from your page is displayed. An impression is counted each time an ad is viewed when it enters a person's screen on Facebook, Instagram, or Audience Network.
Engaged Users: The number of people who engaged with a post by liking, sharing, commenting, or clicking on it, including clicks or stories created.
Engagement Rate: The number of people a post reached who then liked, shared, commented, or clicked on it.
Reactions: The number of people who reacted to a post. You can see the breakdown of reactions on a post by hovering your cursor over the number of reactions.