Guides

Questions creators search, answered from the source

Every number here links to the platform page it was read from, with the date. When a rule changes, the date tells you whether we have caught up.

• How much does YouTube pay per 1,000 views?

  There is no fixed rate. What YouTube actually promises — the revenue share, the Shorts creator pool, the eligibility bar — and why two channels with the same views earn different money.

  Checked 2026-08-29

• How to see your YouTube subscribers

  Where the list lives in YouTube Studio, why it only shows some of them, and why a subscriber can be real and still invisible to you.

  Checked 2026-08-29

• When does YouTube start paying you?

  The four thresholds between joining the Partner Program and the first deposit, the monthly calendar Google actually runs on, and why the first payment usually lands a month later than people expect.

  Checked 2026-08-29

• How to make your X (Twitter) account public

  Public is X’s default; "protected" is the switch that makes it private. What protecting actually changes, what un-protecting does to old posts, and where the setting lives.

  Checked 2026-08-29

• Meta Ads Library: how to see every ad a page is running

  The Ad Library is a public, searchable record of every active ad on Facebook and Instagram. What it shows, what it keeps, and how to read a competitor’s ads without an account.

  Checked 2026-08-29