📚 ContentCal Articles

Introducing our long-form content feature, allowing you to plan and create newsletters, blogs, press releases and much more, all from within ContentCal.

What’s new

Bring all of your content into one place and create longer pieces using our rich text editor within Articles. You’ll still be able to follow your usual approvals process, too.

Save time using Articles

91% of users we surveyed said they find it time-consuming or frustrating to use multiple tools to create their long-form content. That’s why we’re simplifying the process and giving you some of that precious content creation time back.

✍️ Content Forms

Now you can collect ideas and information from all areas of your business by using Content Forms.

What's new

Create a branded form to crowdsource content (images and text) from your teams.

Submitting Content

All content submissions appear directly in Content Hub. A new Form filter allows you to sort through the content.

🔌 Native LinkedIn mentioning

Based on your feedback, we have now added tagging (@ mention) Company pages functionality for LinkedIn posts.

🎯 Publish directly to Google My Business

Better manage your business with 2 Google My Business post types. Available on Premium or Custom plans.

What's New

Schedule a simple update from your business using text, images, and buttons.

Event

Schedule events related to your business with custom links or call-back options.

✍️ Add a Title to Facebook Videos

Following on from our previous update on custom video thumbnails for Facebook, you can now add a custom Title too. You will see this new input field appear after you've uploaded a video in the Post Editor.

FIXES

• Fixed a bug that prevented PDF exports from downloading for some customers.
• Fixed a bug which sometimes caused the 'engaged' metric in Analytics to incorrectly show a value of 0.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented Top Performing Posts from appearing for certain channels in ContentCal Analytics.

ContentCal 2.4 🏡

FEATURES

📊 Analytics refresh

In this release, we've made some updates to make analytics look and work better for you. There's much more to come for analytics, and our team is fully focused on our all-new analytics product- coming soon to a screen near you.

Released in 2.4…

• New 'Breakdown' graphs, which allows you to see stats on a per-day basis.
• Improved axis labeling.
• Full-width graphs for better visibility and exporting.
• The color of graphs and charts now matches your Navigation color. Top Tip: To change the color, head to Setup, then to 'Custom Navigation Color.'
• Design facelift and minor updates to PDF exports.

📹 Custom video thumbnails for Facebook

If you post videos to your Facebook Page, you can now select a custom thumbnail from a frame in the video. To do this, click into the video thumbnail from the Post Modal, pause your video at the frame you want to use, then click the Use current frame as video thumbnail button.

📊 Keyboard shortcuts

We've added keyboard shortcuts to speed up your workflow.

• Press the left or right keys on your keyboard to switch weeks/months.
• Access functions like Filters, Search, Post Modal, and more, with a single keyboard shortcut.
• Plus, many more.

IMPROVEMENTS

✨ Add Calendar posts to Library

By popular request, you can now add posts from your Calendar into your Content Hub Library. This action is available from the right-click menu.

FIXES

• Fixed issue with Bitly links causing multiple 301 redirects
• Fixed issue whereby some people were experiencing uploads via 'Add media' not uploading as expected.
• General bug fixes and stability updates.

⚡️ New Zapier Action: Create Content Hub Post

By popular demand, we've added the ability to send content from other sources to Content Hub. When you set up your Zap, just select the new 'Create Content Hub Post' Action, and your content will fill up your Content Hub automatically.

We love the ability to add content from Pocket, Feedly, and Slack, but there are loads of other options to explore.

🧠 New Short Courses

We updated our website to include Short Courses. Become a Master of Social Media with these great courses from industry experts, including corporate and public sector communication professional, Joanne Sweeney.

📗 New Help Center

We recently created a new Help Center to help you find the help content you need faster. You can check it out at https://www.contentcal.io/help/

✂️ Web Clipper for iOS and Android

Fill up your Calendar with the interesting content you find while browsing the web.

Save articles to your Content Hub Library

Web Clipper automatically generates the page title.

Save articles to your Pinboard

Web Clipper automatically generates the page title.

Highlight text from articles

Add to your Content Hub Library or Pinboard.

IMPROVEMENTS

✂️ Web Clipper update

Web Clipper for Chrome on Desktop now automatically adds in the article title to match the behaviour on mobile.

DOWNLOADS

💻 Web Clipper for Chrome on Desktop: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/contentcal-web-clipper/olgbglikmfhlpkhidochmlkkjnjofocc

🍎 iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/contentcal/id1413698614

🤖 Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.contentcal&hl=en

Our Bitly integration has been updated to version 4.0

This update is automatic, there are no actions required on your behalf.

We've rolled out some fixes for instances where posts would temporarily flicker or disappear from view.