The moment it happens

Post new Wistia videos to Slack

Each new upload shows up in Slack with its name and a link.

Runs: The moment it happens
Apps: Wistia
AI: Not needed
Access: read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: when a video is uploaded to Wistia, post its name and link to #marketing in Slack.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A marketing team on Wistia uploads a new product demo or customer story and then needs sales, support and social to know about it. The uploader sends a quick message when they remember, and the link sometimes goes to one channel but not the other. Weeks later, a salesperson is still sharing last quarter's video because nobody told them the new one existed, and the new video collects few views.

The moment a new video is added to a Wistia project, Wistia sends the event to the automation, which formats the title and link and posts it to your chosen Slack channel. No one has to remember to announce it, and the post arrives while the video is still new to everyone.

It works for any team where several roles use the same video library.

What you get out of it

The newest demo gets used
When the link appears in Slack the day it is uploaded, sales replace the old demo in their outreach straight away, and prospects see the current product rather than a version months out of date.
Support learns of new walkthroughs
A new how-to video can answer a question support gets every day. Seeing it in Slack means they send it the same week instead of writing the same reply for another month.
Social posts happen sooner
The person managing social media sees the video as soon as it exists and can schedule posts during the days when the topic is still fresh. The team can plan a launch post around the day the video is actually ready, rather than discovering it later.
Videos are not lost in project folders
Teams add videos to many projects. A single channel shows everything new in one place, so a video in a forgotten folder still gets noticed. That one feed reduces the chance of a good video sitting unseen in a folder that nobody opens.
A running history of releases
Scrolling the channel gives a dated list of every video published, useful when someone asks when the pricing explainer was added. It also gives new hires a quick way to catch up on what the team has published.

How it works

What happens, step by step

When a new video is uploaded to Wistia, Wistia tells ClickRuntime straight away.
ClickRuntime picks out the video's name and builds a link to it.
A message appears in your #marketing Slack channel with the video name and link.

Before it runs live

Connect Wistia
Paste your automation's link into the other app's webhook settings

What you get

RunsThe moment it happens

Post new Wistia videos to Slackjust nowSucceeded

Slack · #marketing🎬 New Wistia video: Acme onboarding walkthrough https://home.wistia.com/medias/a1b2c3d4e5

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Wistia steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

new_video_uploaded_to_slack.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_event, notify

@on_event
def handle(event):
    posted = 0
    for e in (event.json or {}).get("events", []):
        if e.get("type") != "media.created":
            continue
        media = e["payload"]["media"]
        notify.slack(f"🎬 New Wistia video: {media['name']}\nhttps://home.wistia.com/medias/{media['hashed_id']}",
                     channel="#marketing")
        posted += 1
    return {"posted": posted}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it announce videos while they are still processing?

The event is sent when media is created, which can precede processing. The Slack link will work once Wistia finishes encoding. If you prefer to wait until the video is ready, ask for that condition.

Can it limit announcements to certain Wistia projects?

Yes. The event includes the project, so the automation can post only for projects such as Marketing, and ignore internal training or draft folders that other people use but should not be broadcast. Internal-only videos can be excluded.

What does the Slack message include?

The video's name and a link, and it can also show the project it was added to and the uploader if Wistia supplies them. Tell your AI assistant if you want a thumbnail or a description added.

What permissions does it need?

read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run for each event the app sends.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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