Publish to social media from Dropbox!

[amandachin]

Hello! 

My name is Amanda. My team is building a feature to help users publish videos to their final destination — whether that’s social media, YouTube, your website, or elsewhere. We hear this task is repetitive and tiresome, and you shouldn’t have to waste time downloading and uploading videos to multiple places. 

Starting today, you can publish videos and photos directly from Dropbox to Instagram and Facebook**. Simply open a video or photo on www.dropbox.com, and click "Publish". Soon, we’ll let you schedule posts in advance, and post to YouTube.  

Note: This feature isn’t widely available to all users yet — if you don’t see the Publish button, reply to this thread with “opt-in” and we'll give your account access. 😉

If you’d like to collaborate and help shape the future of this feature, reply with “I’m ok for Dropbox to contact me by email” and we will reach out.

**You must have an Instagram Business account and a Facebook Page to publish from Dropbox. See this article for support.

***Update - this feature has been temporarily postponed and there is no longer an "opt-in" option for it. Thank you for your continued patience.***

[Graham]

Wow, what an awesome feature! Anyone who has ever used Dropbox for their social media content will absolutely love this. I know from my own personal experience, it can eat up so much time having to download and the re-upload content, especially videos, so this is a real game changer.

I'm also super excited for the ability to schedule posts, so much time is going to be saved! Thanks for sharing @amandachin!

[Downunder5170]

I'm interested in the publish button.

My email is: [Removed as per Community Guidelines]

[awoolwine]

opt in

I had the publish button but now it has disappeared?

[thepletts]

opt-in

[amandachin]

Hi everyone,

Some of you may have noticed that the Publish button is no longer available and thus you can no longer publish content directly from Dropbox to social media. Unfortunately, we've had to put a hold on this feature, but we are hoping to revisit it again at some point in the future.

I'm really sorry to be the bearer of bad news here, I was as excited about this as all of you. If you did get a chance to use this feature while it was available, you can still reply back on this thread to share feedback. This could be really useful information for the team working on it when it comes to picking up the work again. 

Thanks, and have a great day!

Amanda

[carotelfer]

What was the problem? Was it something that changed on Facebook or Instagram? Or did you just find some bugs that needed to be ironed out? 

Somehow I thing it is a losing battle trying to keep up with changes made by meta...

[Graham]

Hi @carotelfer,

Thanks for the comment and welcome to the Dropbox Community! In this case, I would imagine there were a number of different factors leading to the work being paused on this particular feature, so we can't really boil it down to one thing. We are hopeful that this work might continue again at some point in the future and all of you here will certainly be the first to know if and when that does happen.

Would you mind me asking, were you using this feature while it was available? If you were, I'd love to hear any feedback you might have on it.

Thanks, and have a great day! 

Graham

[carotelfer]

No, I didn’t know about the feature until I read it here. 
But I’d be sure interested to try it if it gets up and running.

[roytheskateboy]

opt in 

I am interested