How to Create Facebook Stories through ContentStudio
With ContentStudio, you can easily craft, plan, and get a sneak peek at your favorite stories for Facebook. Here's a step-by-step guide to adding Facebook Stories to your posts within ContentStudio:
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Create Facebook Story
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Navigate to Compose and click Social Post tab.
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Select the Facebook page from the accounts on the left panel.
Important
- The story option is currently only available for Pages.
- When a Group is selected, the system will publish it as a feed post.
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Add your story caption in the Post Composer and click Upload media tab.
Technical Requirements:
- Only video files with a duration between 4 and 60 seconds and aspect ratios of 9:16 are eligible to be posted as a Story post.
- You can only add an image or video at a time.
- In the case of video, custom thumbnails are not allowed.
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Within the Post Facebook Settings area, click on the Story radio button tab.
Preview Your Story
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Once you are done with the above settings, you can see your posts' Live Preview. The Preview option in the right pane shows how your post will look on both Mobile and Desktop once it is posted.
Choose Posting Schedule
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Select Post now to instantly share your post.
- Alternatively, you can choose from other posting schedules, such as:
- Schedule: If you want to schedule the post for later, select Schedule and choose a future date and time for your post.
- Add to Queue: Add this post to your Social Queue, click here to learn more
- Add to Content Category: Add this post to your Content Category queue, click here to learn more
- Draft: Click on this if you want to Draft this post for later use
FAQs
1: What happens if my video is longer than 60 seconds?
- ContentStudio will only allow you to post the story within 60 seconds.
2: Can I add text overlays or music to my stories?
- Unfortunately, adding text overlays or music directly in ContentStudio isn't available yet. You can, however, create your images or videos with these elements beforehand and then upload them to your story.
3: Can I share the same story on multiple Facebook Pages?
- Absolutely! Just select all the Pages you want to share in step 2. Your story will be published automatically on each chosen Page.
Have fun creating engaging Facebook Stories! 😍