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Automate your Wistia integrations

Wistia and IFTTT let you trigger automations when videos upload and automatically organize, update, or create videos from other apps. Wistia is a video hosting and marketing platform for businesses to upload, manage, and analyze video performance. Connect Wistia to IFTTT to automate notifications when videos are uploaded or reach engagement milestones, and to manage video organization and metadata from external triggers.

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Create your own Wistia workflow

Create custom workflows effortlessly by selecting triggers, queries, and actions. With IFTTT, it's simple: “If this” trigger happens, “then that” action follows. Streamline tasks and save time with automated workflows that work for you.

7 triggers, queries, and actions

New video uploaded

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
This trigger fires when a new video is uploaded to your Wistia account.

Get video details

Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns the full metadata for a specific Wistia video, looked up by its hashed ID.

Search videos

Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns Wistia videos whose names match a keyword search, optionally filtered by project.

Get video engagement stats

Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns current engagement statistics for a specific Wistia video, including play count and average engagement rate.

Create video from file

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will create a new video in Wistia by importing from a public file URL.

Update video metadata

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will update the name and/or description of an existing Wistia video.

Move video to project

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will move an existing Wistia video to a different project.

New video uploaded

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
This trigger fires when a new video is uploaded to your Wistia account.

Get video details

Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns the full metadata for a specific Wistia video, looked up by its hashed ID.

Search videos

Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns Wistia videos whose names match a keyword search, optionally filtered by project.

Get video engagement stats

Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns current engagement statistics for a specific Wistia video, including play count and average engagement rate.

Create video from file

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will create a new video in Wistia by importing from a public file URL.

Update video metadata

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will update the name and/or description of an existing Wistia video.

Move video to project

Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This action will move an existing Wistia video to a different project.

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How to connect to a Wistia automation

Find an Applet using Wistia and Email

Find an automation to connect to, or create your own!

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Securely connect the Applet services to your respective accounts.

Finalize and customize your Applet

Review trigger and action settings, and click connect. Simple as that!
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Wistia is a video hosting and marketing platform for businesses to upload, manage, and analyze video performance. Connect Wistia to IFTTT to automate notifications when videos are uploaded or reach engagement milestones, and to manage video organization and metadata from external triggers.

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