Can You Upload Short-Form Content in Bulk and Instantly Publish It to Your Brand Community?

Managing large volumes of short-form video content can quickly become time-consuming for brands and creators. What if there was a way to upload multiple videos at once, enhance them automatically, and organize them into communities with minimal effort?

With the Curate Upload functionality, brands can bulk upload short-form videos, apply automated enhancements like captions, titles, and thumbnails, and then review and publish them within their community ecosystem.

This article explains how the upload process works, what additional settings can enhance your videos, and how the moderation workflow ensures high-quality content on your platform.

What Is the Upload Feature?

The Upload feature within the Engage module allows users to upload short-form videos in bulk directly into their platform.

This functionality is designed to simplify content management by enabling users to:

• Upload multiple videos at once
• Automatically generate titles, captions, and descriptions
• Apply visual enhancements such as thumbnails and smart cropping
• Assign videos to communities or groups
• Review and approve content before publishing

This process helps brands maintain organized, engaging, and scalable content distribution.

Where Can You Access the Upload Feature?

To start uploading content, navigate through the platform using the following path:

Curate > Activity > + New Post > Uploads

From this section, you can begin uploading your short-form video content.

How to Upload Videos

Uploading videos is designed to be simple and flexible. You can upload content using multiple sources.

Upload Methods

You can upload videos by:

• Dragging and dropping files directly into the upload area
• Uploading from your computer
• Importing from Google Drive
• Importing from Dropbox
• Uploading from an S3 Bucket

This flexibility allows brands to easily import video assets from different storage environments.

Video Upload Requirements

Before uploading videos, ensure that your files meet the platform’s technical requirements.

Meeting these requirements ensures that the platform can process your videos efficiently.

Selecting the Import Destination

Once the video files are uploaded, you must select where the content should appear within your platform.

Import Destination Options

You can choose:

• A Community
• A Group within a Community

This helps ensure that uploaded content is organized correctly and appears in the appropriate context for users.

Additional Settings for Uploaded Videos

After uploading videos, the platform allows you to apply several automated enhancements to improve engagement and presentation.

These additional settings help convert raw videos into polished, platform-ready content.

Video URL

Add Title

Enabling the Add Title option automatically generates a relevant title for your video.

The system analyzes the video content and produces a suitable title that helps viewers quickly understand the topic.

Benefits include:

• Faster publishing
• Improved content discoverability
• Consistent title formatting

Add Caption

The Add Caption feature automatically generates captions for your video.

Captions improve accessibility and ensure viewers can understand the content even when watching without sound.

Advantages include:

• Better accessibility
• Improved engagement on silent autoplay
• Clearer communication of spoken content

Add Background Music

You can enhance your videos by enabling the Add Background Music option.

This feature automatically applies suitable background music to the uploaded video, making it more engaging and dynamic.

Video URL

Add Description

When enabled, the Add Description feature automatically generates a contextual description for your video.

Key details:

• Up to 2000 characters
• Generated based on video content
• Helps viewers understand the context quickly

Descriptions also improve searchability and content organization within the platform.

Caption Style Options

Captions can be customized to match your content style using two different caption style options.

Best Fit

The Best Fit option automatically adjusts captions for optimal readability.

This setting ensures:

• Proper caption placement
• Balanced formatting
• Clear visibility without obstructing the video

It is ideal for users who prefer automatic formatting.

Custom Caption Style

The Custom option allows you to manually select caption styles.

Customization options may include:

• Font style
• Font size
• Text color

This flexibility allows brands to maintain visual consistency with their brand identity.

Smart Crop

The Smart Crop feature automatically detects the main speaker or subject within the video.

It then crops and reframes the video to emphasize the person speaking.

This ensures:

• Better focus on the speaker
• Improved viewing experience
• Enhanced short-form video formatting

Smart cropping is particularly useful for talking-head videos and interviews.

Video URL

Clickbait Thumbnail

Thumbnails play a major role in attracting viewers.

When you enable Clickbait Thumbnail, the platform automatically:

• Selects the best frame from the video
• Adds attention-grabbing text related to the video topic

This creates a visually appealing thumbnail designed to increase click-through rates and viewer engagement.

Importing the Videos

After configuring the additional settings, you can begin importing your videos.

Simply click the Import button.

The platform will then process the videos and import them into the ecosystem based on the selected settings.

Tracking Upload Status with Activity Logs

After uploading videos, you can track their processing status through Activity Logs.

Navigate to: Curate > Activity Logs > Uploads

Here, you can view important details such as:

• Name
• Imported By
• Source
• Date
• Import status (Completed/Failed)
• Posted status (Yes/No)

You can also filter results based on:

• Upload date
• Status
• Source of the video

When a video shows Completed status, it means the video has been successfully imported and is ready for review.

Activity Dashboard

The Activity section provides an overview of the video moderation pipeline.

It shows how many videos fall into each category:

• Awaiting to Post
• Processing
• Scheduled to Post
• Approved
• Rejected

You can also filter videos based on their source, such as:

• Social Import
• Uploads (Direct Import)
• Clipit

Additionally, moderation filters include:

• Community View
• Task View

This helps administrators manage large volumes of content efficiently.

Approving or Rejecting Videos

Once videos are processed, they must go through a review step before publication.

During the review process, the system suggests:

• A Community name
• A Group name

Your uploaded video will appear within the suggested group.

Moderators can then:

• Approve the video to publish it directly or schedule to post it
• Reject the video if it does not meet content standards

This moderation workflow ensures that only relevant and appropriate content appears on the platform.

Moving Videos to Another Community or Group

If the automatically suggested community or group does not seem appropriate, you can move the video.

This allows you to reassign the content to a more relevant:

• Community
• Group

This flexibility ensures content stays properly categorized.

Viewing Uploaded Video Details

By clicking the View button, you can open the video preview along with its metadata.

From this screen you can:

• Watch the video
• Review generated details
• Approve or reject the video

This provides a final verification step before publishing.

Changing Community or Group Names

If you do not like the automatically generated community or group name, you can edit it.

Steps:

1. Click the Edit icon next to the generated name
2. A slider panel opens from the right side
3. Modify the name and details as required

This allows brands to maintain structured and meaningful community organization.

Final Thoughts

The Curate Upload functionality provides a powerful way to manage short-form video content at scale.

By combining:

• Bulk upload capabilities
• Automated video enhancements
• Moderation workflows
• Community organization tools

brands can efficiently turn large amounts of raw content into engaging, structured, and publish-ready community media.

Whether you are importing existing video libraries or uploading fresh content, this system ensures that your videos are optimized, organized, and ready to engage your audience.