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Now Available: Publish Stories directly to Instagram

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DivyaV
Khoros Staff
10 months ago

Users now have the capability to post Stories directly to Instagram through Khoros.

Choose an Instagram account, and select "Stories" from the placement dropdown menu. A maximum of 10 images, videos, or a combination thereof can be published.

 

Please refer to the below Instagram specifications for images and videos while publishing to stories:

Story Image Specifications:

  • Format: JPEG
  • File size: 8 MB maximum
  • Aspect ratio: Instagram recommends  9:16 to avoid cropping or blank space
  • Color Space: sRGB

Story Video Specifications:

  • 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 

Published stories can also be viewed in the โ€œStoriesโ€ option under format in calendar filters.

Updated 5 months ago
Version 3.0
  • Awesome!!!!
    This is the most anticipated IG feature for all of our SMM customers.

  • Clearly THE most requested feature in the long history of the most request features ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

  • JohnE's avatar
    JohnE
    Khoros Alumni (Retired)

    So excited to see this popular content type now available in Khoros!