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Social Distribution

Publish videos directly to YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook from VideoNest — no third-party automation required.

Supported platforms

VideoNest has native integrations with the following social platforms:

  • YouTube — direct video upload to your channel
  • Instagram — publish via your connected Meta account
  • Facebook — publish via your connected Meta account
  • TikTok — coming soon

Step 1 — Connect your accounts

Before you can publish to social platforms, you need to authenticate your accounts so VideoNest has permission to post on your behalf.

  1. In your VideoNest dashboard, go to Integrations.
  2. To connect YouTube, click Connect next to YouTube and sign in with your Google account. Grant the requested permissions to allow VideoNest to upload videos to your channel.
  3. To connect Instagram and Facebook, click Connect next to Meta. A single Meta authentication covers both platforms — log in with your Meta account and grant the required page and publishing permissions.

Once connected, your accounts will appear as active in the Integrations panel. You can disconnect and reconnect at any time.

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Instagram & Facebook permissions

Meta requires that you connect a Facebook Page and a linked Instagram Business or Creator account to enable publishing. Personal Instagram profiles cannot be published to programmatically.

Step 2 — Choose where to publish

Once your accounts are connected, you can direct content to social platforms at two points in your workflow:

  • On upload: During the upload flow, use the distribution panel to select which social platforms to publish to when the video is ready. Check the platforms you want and VideoNest will push the video automatically after processing completes.
  • From a video page: Open any video in your Media Library, find the Distribution section, and use the social publishing controls to push it to one or more connected platforms at any time.

What gets published

VideoNest publishes the video file along with the title and description set in your video metadata. Before publishing to social, make sure your video's title and description are complete — what's in VideoNest is what gets posted. Thumbnails are included where supported by the platform.

For YouTube, the video is uploaded directly to your connected channel. For Instagram and Facebook, the video is published as a post to your connected Page and account.

TikTok (coming soon)

Native TikTok publishing is on the roadmap. When it launches, it will follow the same pattern — authenticate your TikTok account in Integrations and select TikTok as a publish destination on upload or from the video page.

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