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Now Available: Publish Stories directly to Instagram

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DivyaV
Khoros Staff
2 years 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 β€œStories” option under format in calendar filters.

Updated 9 months ago
Version 3.0

4 Comments

  • Awesome!!!!
    This is the most anticipated IG feature for all of our SMM customers.

  • ArnaudL's avatar
    ArnaudL
    Khoros Expert
    2 years ago

    Clearly THE most requested feature in the long history of the most request features πŸ˜†πŸ€©πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

  • JohnE's avatar
    JohnE
    Khoros Alumni (Retired)
    2 years ago

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