Getting Started with Brightcove Social

This topic provides an overview of Brightcove Social. Brightcove Social allows you to easily publish videos in your Video Cloud account out to popular social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

To access Brightcove Social, login to Brightcove Beacon and open the Social module in the primary navigation. A list of your published videos will be displayed by default.

Using Brightcove Social you can:

Viewing your published videos

To view your published videos, click the Published link in the left navigation. Each published video will display the publishing status, video information and a link to the social platform that the video has been published to. For information on viewing published videos, see Viewing Videos Published to Social Media.

Clipping videos

The Social module allows clipping on VOD video, save the clipped video to the Media Module, and then publish the video to a social destination based on your preference.

Follow these steps to clip a video

  1. Login to Video Cloud Studio.
  2. Open the Social module.
  3. Click Videos.
  4. Click on the video you want to clip.

  5. At the top of the list click Clip.

  6. Notice how a new window appears. Using the sliders, you can clip the video.

  7. Click Continue.

  8. Update the fields if needed.

  9. Notice there are two save options:

    • Save to save the video in the media module.

    • Save & Publish... to see the option to publish the video in your preferred destination.

Publishing videos to social media platforms

To publish a video to a social media platform, click the Videos link in the left navigation or click Choose videos to Publish at the top of the page. For information on publishing videos to a social media account, see Publishing Videos to Social Media Platforms.

Publishing live videos to social media platforms

To publish a live video to a social media platform, click Create Live Event at the top of the page. For information on publishing live videos to a social media account, see one of the following:

Automatically syncing videos to social media accounts

The Auto Sync feature can be used to have videos automatically published to social media destinations based upon tags that are assigned to a video. Configure Auto Sync by clicking Auto Sync in the left navigation. For information on configuring the Auto Sync feature, see Using Auto Sync to Synchronize Videos to Social Media Accounts.

Creating social media publishing destinations

Publishing destinations are the social media accounts to which you will publish videos to. A publishing destination can be a YouTube channel, Facebook page or Twitter account. Publishing destinations are created by clicking Destinations in the left navigation. For information on creating publishing destinations, see Creating Social Media Publishing Destinations.

Reviewing social analytics

Social Analytics provides data on how videos shared to social media channels are performing. View the social analytics by clicking Social Analytics in the left navigation. For information on social analytics, see Reviewing Social Analytics.