Media scheduler

Photos and video, queued once and published on a schedule.

Upload the batch when you have it, pick the locations, and set when each item goes live. The profile keeps getting fresh pictures long after the photographer went home.

Photos and videoAcross selected locationsScheduled in advance
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The short answer

The media scheduler holds a queue of photos and video and publishes them to your Google Business Profiles on a schedule you set. You upload once and choose which locations each item belongs to. That turns a folder of images sitting on somebody's laptop into months of profile activity, without anyone logging in to upload.

What it is

Why do profile photos stop?

Almost every business photographs its work at the start. New signage, a finished job, the team, the space customers walk into. Those pictures go up in the first month.

Then nothing. Not because the photos ran out. Uploading them never has a due date, so it keeps getting pushed behind the jobs that do.

A queue fixes that. The pictures you already took get spread across the months ahead, and the profile keeps getting new pictures while you focus on the job.

a folder of 60 photos
Uploaded when someone remembers3 IN A YEAR
Queued and scheduled60 OVER MONTHS
Photos still on the laptop0
The photos exist already
01 · The queue

Upload in a batch, publish over time.

Both formats go into a queue in one sitting. You upload when you have the files and a spare hour, which is almost never the day they should go live, so the queue holds them until then.

From there the schedule does the publishing, item by item, without you.

See the GMB Post Scheduler →

the queue
Uploaded in one sitting40 ITEMS
Published acrossTHE NEXT 20 WEEKS
Logins needed after that0
The queue
02 · Video queues like a photo

The format most local profiles skip.

Most local profiles have no video at all. It is not that nobody filmed anything, it is that uploading the clip is one more thing to remember.

It queues exactly like a photo does, so a clip of the workshop sits in the schedule beside the still images from the same visit.

See the Website Builder →

in the queue
PhotosQUEUED
VideoQUEUED
Two separate toolsNOT NEEDED
Video queues like a photo
03 · Across the locations you pick

Brand wide or branch by branch.

Some pictures belong everywhere: a new logo, a seasonal offer, a product every branch sells. Others belong to one address only, like a photo of that storefront.

So each item is assigned to the locations it fits, and a brand image reaches thirty profiles without thirty uploads.

See Multi Location Management →

assignment
New brand photoALL 30
Downtown storefrontTHAT BRANCH
Uploads performedONE PER PHOTO
Across the locations you pick
04 · Why steady beats bulk

Forty photos in one day looks like a one-time push.

Publishing the whole folder on a Tuesday gives you one active day and eleven quiet months.

Spread the same forty items across the year and the profile looks active all year. That is what the business actually is.

See Auto Post and Dripfeed →

same 40 photos
All published on one day1 ACTIVE DAY
Spread across the yearACTIVE ALL YEAR
Days the profile shows activity40
Why steady beats bulk
05 · Who it helps most

Anyone who has the photos but not the time.

A single owner uses it to turn one photo session into a year of profile activity. An agency uses it to keep thirty client profiles stocked with pictures without sitting down to upload every week.

Either way the queue is the point. Once media is in it, the schedule does the publishing.

See the Portfolio Report →

who benefits
Owner with a photo folderA YEAR OF POSTS
Agency with 30 clientsNO WEEKLY UPLOADS
Depends on memoryNO
Who it helps most
What you get

The media scheduler toolkit

A media queue

Files wait in it until their turn, however many you add.

Both formats

Video is queued exactly like a still image.

Per location assignment

Brand wide items and branch specific ones.

A schedule you set

The queue releases on the rhythm you chose.

Works with the post scheduler

Media and written posts on one plan.

Hands off after upload

No weekly reminder to add pictures.

How it works

How to set it up

  1. Gather what you already have. Job photos, staff, premises, product, video clips.
  2. Upload the batch. One sitting, as many files as you have ready.
  3. Assign the locations. Everywhere, a region, or one branch.
  4. Set the schedule. Spread the queue across the weeks ahead.
  5. Let it publish. The queue empties itself over the weeks.
after setup
Items queued40
Weeks covered20
Work left to doNONE
One upload, months of activity
One flat price

Included in the one plan

  • The media scheduler and all 41 other tools
  • Both formats in the same queue
  • All 42 tools included at every plan size
  • Scheduling across every location you run
  • Three day free trial, no credit card needed
From 8 locations
$5.33
per location / month
1 location $16 · 2 to 7 flat $37 · full price list
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FAQ

Questions people ask

What can I schedule?

Photos and video. Aim for the ordinary stuff as well as the showpieces: the van outside a job, the counter, the finished repair. Those are the ones that give the queue something to publish in February.

How far ahead can I plan?

As far ahead as the queue stretches. People commonly upload a batch after a photo session and space it across the following few months, so one session keeps the profile posting without another upload.

Can one photo go to every location?

Yes. Assign it to all of them and it reaches every profile from that one upload, which is the whole saving when you run thirty locations and a new logo needs to appear on all of them.

How is this different from the dripfeed?

The scheduler is where you build the queue and set the schedule it publishes on. The dripfeed releases that queue gradually on its own once it is switched on. The same media works with either.

Do photos actually help a profile?

They give customers something to judge before they call, and a profile with current pictures reads as a business that is open and working. They will not outrank a competitor on their own.

What should I photograph?

The work itself, the premises inside and out, the team, and anything customers ask about before booking. Photograph what your own business actually looks like, because a customer can tell a stock image at a glance.

The photos are already on somebody's phone.

Queue them once, assign the locations, and let one photo session keep your profiles posting all year. From $5.33 per location each month, three day trial.

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