Geo-Targeted Stories & Chartbeat Integration
We’ve focused this update on solving common challenges around relevance, insights, and performance, making your stories smarter and more impactful.
Geo-Blocking for Stories & Shorts
Our latest release introduces geo-blocking, giving you the ability to decide exactly where your stories and shorts appear. You can set rules by region, country, or location, ensuring only the right audiences see the right content.
Not all content is relevant everywhere.
A local promotion might only make sense in one country, while sports updates or news stories might be applicable to a specific region. Without control, showing the same content to all audiences can cause confusion, reduce engagement, and even waste valuable impressions.
Gain Deeper Insights With Chartbeat
Measuring engagement is critical, but native analytics don’t always give teams the full picture.
Many publishers and media companies rely on Chartbeat for real-time insights, but until now, they couldn’t connect Stories and Shorts performance into the same dashboard they use daily.
With our new Chartbeat integration, you can now see Story and Short engagement directly in Chartbeat. This means your content analytics sit side by side with your existing site and audience metrics.
Improvements 🌟
Create a Faster, Smoother Experience
Slow-loading widgets or clunky flows can frustrate users and cost you valuable engagement. Likewise, video quality that doesn’t match user expectations can make content feel less professional.
Moreover, we made some other improvements:
- 43% faster widget loading for smoother user experiences.
- Sharpened video rendering for higher-quality playback across devices.
- Refined login flow, where screens reveal step-by-step (email → password), reducing friction and making login more intuitive.
Bug Fixes 🔧
- Android SDK: Fixed onStoryClosed event not triggering when the last story auto-advanced.
- Flutter SDK: Fixed issue with multi-line story names being cut off on certain screen sizes.
