Automation · Operations and reporting
Get a WhatsApp summary every Monday of how your Wistia videos did
An AI agent reads your Wistia account stats every Monday and sends you on WhatsApp which videos grew, where people came from and what converted.
How do I get a weekly WhatsApp summary of my Wistia video stats?
Schedule a weekly task for a Met with Wistia connected. Every Monday, the Met gets the stats for the whole account for the week that ended and for the one before, lists your videos, requests detail only for the ones that lead the week and, for those, checks which sources the plays came from and how many conversions their forms produced. With that it sends you a short WhatsApp message: how the account moved, the videos that grew the most, where people came from and which video is bringing in leads. It only reads: it does not move, tag or edit anything in Wistia.
What starts it
At a set time
A task with a weekly recurring trigger, on Monday morning, so the summary arrives before the week is planned. Each run queries Wistia with the account that authorized the connection.
A task on a recurring (cron) or date and time trigger. It runs on its own, with nobody logged in.
Who runs it
Marketing Met that summarizes video stats every week
This is not a named, seeded Met. It is an internal Met with Wistia connected: its work ends when the summary reaches whoever decides which video to promote, not when the campaign changes.
Channels: WhatsApp
What you need connected
- Wistia Create and promote
5 steps · 6 tools
The procedure, step by step
Each step shows the tool that runs. They belong to the real connector: if one of them stopped existing, this page would not build.
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See how the whole account moved
The Met gets the account's current stats and the previous week's by date range, and puts them side by side. That way the summary opens with a comparison and not with a loose number.
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List the videos and keep the top ones
The Met lists your media, going through every page of the response, and ranks the week by plays. It requests detail only for the ones at the top, so it does not run one query per video in the account.
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Get the detail of each top video
For each top video, the Met gets its aggregate stats, which are the basis of that video's line in the summary. The rest keep only what came with the list.
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Check where people came from
The Met checks which sources the plays of those videos came from. If a video grew through a single source, the summary says so, because it changes what is worth promoting.
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See which video brought in leads
If your videos have lead capture forms, the Met checks their conversions and tells you which one is bringing in leads. If none has a form, it says so instead of reporting a zero.
Before you start
What you need ready
The Met solves none of these for you. If one is missing, the automation stops there.
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A Wistia account with owner or manager permission
According to Wistia's guide, its MCP server is only available to account owners and managers. Usage runs on your Wistia plan; Meteor does not resell Wistia.
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Wistia connected in Met
In Met, open Connections → Wistia → Connect and sign in with your account. This recipe only uses actions that read, so you can leave the ones that move, tag or edit switched off.
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A WhatsApp line to receive the summary
The business connects its WhatsApp Business API line and chooses who gets the summary. The weekly task is scheduled in Met with a recurring trigger.
The limits
What this automation does NOT solve
Better said here than discovered halfway through the rollout.
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It does not change anything in Wistia: it does not move videos, tag them or fix titles. If you want that, it is another request to the Met, with those actions on.
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It does not measure what happens outside Wistia: if your video is also on social media, those plays do not enter the summary.
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It does not compare ranges longer than 2 years in a single query: that is the date cap Wistia sets.
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It does not tell you why a video grew: it shows the sources and the numbers, and reading the cause is up to you.
FAQ
Questions about this automation
Yes. The connector also gets a folder's totals, so the Met can build the summary for, say, only the product videos folder.
This recipe does not, but the same connector gets your webinars' registrations, attendance and engagement if you ask to add them to the summary.
No. Everything this recipe uses reads data; the actions that move, tag or edit can stay switched off in Connections.
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Want this automation running on your own data?
We will show it to you with your accounts connected, not with a canned demo.