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Publish to social media from Dropbox!

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.

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Graham

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to pop in here to wish you all a very Happy New Year and provide you with a quick update on the Publish feature.

As some of you will have noticed, the ability to publish content directly to your social media accounts is not currently available with the Dropbox app. Unfortunately, we have had to postpone this feature for the time being and we no longer have an "opt-in" option for this.

While the work has been postponed, we understand that this feature was extremely valuable for some of you and we are still hopeful that work will continue on it at some point in the future. Right now, we can not say when this will happen, but we will update this thread as soon as we know any more to ensure that you all are the very first to know.

In the meantime, we would love to hear your thoughts on how the Publish feature worked when it was available. Any information provided here could potentially help the team responsible for working on it in the future.

Thanks for your continued patience and have a great day!

Graham

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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

Graham

Thanks for the response, @carotelfer.

I'll be sure to keep you in the loop on any further developments on this.

Thanks for the comment, @roytheskateboy! Unfortunately, work has been paused on this feature but we are hopeful it will resume at some point in the future.

sudanbukra

Sign me up again. this feature worked before but is not working now. Maybe because I changed the primary email associated with the dropbox account.

Either way it was a great feature and I would like to be on the test group again. thanks

Graham

Hi @sudanbukra,

Thanks for your post, I hope you are well. Unfortunately, we've had to postpone work on this feature so I can confirm it has nothing to do with changing your primary email address as it is no longer available for anyone.

We are hoping that work can be picked up on this at some point in the future and any feedback from people who were using it while it was available could be really helpful for the team responsible for the work if that happens. If there was anything you'd like to share with us about your experiences using it I'd be happy to pass it along to the team.

Thanks again, and have a great day!

Graham

sudanbukra

Hey Graham

We run a tiny news outfit over satellite and our hot data lives inside dropbox. Most of our editing takes place by the production team inside dropbox. We normally download those gigabytes to desktop and then re-upload them to the social media (Youtube, Facebook, etc etc).

The feature of publishing directly to Facebook saved us countless hours.

Happy to discuss more if you need more details.

Graham

Hi @sudanbukra,

Thanks so much for sending this feedback. As soon as we have any news about the continuation of this feature we'll be sure to let you know.

Thanks again, and have a great day.

Graham

wildearthtradingco

How can we ensure we don't miss knowing when new features like this come out?

Graham

Hi @wildearthtradingco,

Welcome to the Dropbox Community forum. Thanks for the question. There are quite a few places where you can hear about new features like this and stay up to date with anything new. Usually, there'll be email and in-app notifications in advance of any new launches or updates to product features so be sure to keep an eye out for these. However, in my very humble (and probably totally biased) opinion, the very best place to keep up with these things is right here on the Community. If you make your way over to Do more with Dropbox, you'll find our What's new section. There, you can find regular updates from the Community Team, as well as more posts like this one from Product Managers or Dropbox Engineers. So, if there's ever anything new about to happen, the chances are you'll see some discussions taking place about it there. I really hope this helps.

Have a great day!

Graham

SimplyEnoughAmy

Opt-in

Swanland

I would like to opt in?

KjnWds

I concur, this is an essential feature, especially for uploading 3 to 20 GB video files to YouTube without re-downloading it again.

Maybe there is a smarter solution, IDK. I'm sure drive allows you to do it, but I wouldn't like to move my client exports archive there...

Please make it happen!

thefindbr

I would like to be able to post to social media.

Opt-in

opt-in

opt in

opt-in

opt-in

Hi Amanda, are there any updates?

wildearthtradingco

Any updates Graham?

Opeechee

Where did this feature go? I would use my phone to publish to instagram stories, posts, reels, etc. Suddenly I can't do that anymore in the app?

This is the kind of thing that I would switch to another service for. Dropbox customer 10+ years.

Opeechee

Why Amanda? What kind of explanation is that? For many of us, this is a daily part of our workflow?

Graham

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to pop in here to wish you all a very Happy New Year and provide you with a quick update on the Publish feature.

Thanks for your continued patience and have a great day!

Graham