Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for a video generation platform that automatically generates videos, also referred to herein as stories, based on story templates, story data, and story metadata. The video generation platform provides interfaces for third-party systems to render videos and publish the videos as a story for defined channels and recipients.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for a video generation platform that automatically generates videos, also referred to herein as stories, based on story templates, story data, and story metadata. The video generation platform provides interfaces for third-party systems to render videos and publish the videos as a story for defined channels and recipients.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving a request including a template identifier and a data payload, retrieving, from a data store, a template based on the template identifier, the template being of a first format and defining content elements and data to be depicted in a video, populating one or more data values of the data payload into the template, providing, based on the template, code in a second format that is different from the first format, generating the video based on the code, and transmitting the video to one or more users.