How to schedule Snapchat Stories and Spotlight videos from your computer

Connect your Snapchat public profile, choose Video Post, add a vertical video of up to a minute, and choose where it goes: your public Story, for a day up to a week, or Spotlight, with a description of up to 160 characters. Schedule it or add it to a queue. SPREVA posts it at that time, follows Spotlight's review until the video is live, and brings the views back.

Snapchat lets apps publish to public profiles, the profiles creators and businesses use, not to a personal account. Sign in with Snapchat when you connect and allow SPREVA to post to your public profile. If the login you use has none, create a public profile in the Snapchat app, then connect again. Each public profile is an account of its own in SPREVA.

One post goes to one of two places, chosen under Placement:

1. 1

   Press New in the sidebar, choose Post, then Video Post, and pick your Snapchat profile.

2. 2

   Add one vertical video, from your computer or the library.

3. 3

   Under Placement, choose Story or Spotlight.

4. 4

   For a Story, choose how long it stays up under Visible for. For Spotlight, write the description and check its Language.

5. 5

   Schedule it, or Add to queue.

SPREVA checks the video against Snapchat's rules before it goes, so nothing is refused at the last minute:

• Vertical, 9:16. Another shape is allowed, with a warning, but it will not fill the screen.
• At least 540 × 960 pixels, and up to 1 GB.
• 5 to 60 seconds for a Story, 6 to 60 for Spotlight.
• Words in the picture for a Story: Snapchat shows no caption there, so a title or captions belong in the video itself.

Snapchat reviews every Spotlight video before it goes live. SPREVA sends it at the time you chose, then keeps checking, often at first and then every quarter of an hour, until Snapchat says it is live or has not accepted it. If it is not accepted, the post says so: check Snapchat's Spotlight guidelines, edit the post and publish it again.

The video you post to Snapchat is the one TikTok, Reels and YouTube Shorts want too. Send it to all of them in one post, with its own text for each under Per account, and Snapchat as a Story or on Spotlight. How to schedule Instagram Reels, from the video to the cover.

For Spotlight, SPREVA brings back views, unique viewers, shares, favorites and watch time; for a Story, views, viewers, shares, swipe-ups and watch time; and your profile's subscribers. They are read an hour after the video goes out, then over the following month.

Connect your public profile, add this week's vertical videos and put them in a queue, a Story on the days you post and Spotlight for the ones made to travel. Every plan starts with a 7-day trial.