A media pool is a gathering spot for images and videos inside a team. You upload your material there, review it at your own pace, rate it, and only then decide what actually makes it into a post. That way you don't have to create a separate post for every loose photo right away.
Note: Media pools are included in every plan – Solo too. How much material fits depends on your team's storage.
What a media pool is good for
- Collect material: Throw all the shots from a shoot, an event or a campaign into one place – without having to commit to a single image straight away.
- Review at your own pace: You or your team look through everything, compare variants and weed out what doesn't fit.
- Rate: Every image and video gets a traffic light – green, yellow or red. So you can see at a glance what's already been approved.
- Share: You can share a pool via a link with clients or your team so they can rate along – with no maebe account of their own.
Pool or post?
A pool is a stockpile, not a finished post. The pool holds raw material that isn't planned or published yet. As soon as you know which shots you want to use, you turn them into a post in just a few clicks.
Tip: Think of the pool like a drawer of raw material, and the post like the finished picture in a frame.
Where to find pools
You reach your media pools in the menu under Media pools – on desktop also via the icon bar on the left. Each pool is shown as a card with a preview, title and number of items. Use "New pool" in the top right to start a fresh one – you name it right away, and without a name no pool is created.
Where to go next
Once your material is in there, it's time to start rating with the traffic light. If you want others to rate along, read Sharing a media pool. And once your selection is set, you turn it into a post from a selection.
When a lot of material piles up, organise the pool with sub-pools.