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All posts →How the Facebook algorithm actually ranks your posts
Meta publishes the ranking pipeline, the prediction targets and the demotion list. Most guides ignore all three and guess instead. Here is the documented version.
8 minute readHow to compress a video without wrecking the quality
Most compression advice tells you to squeeze the file as small as it will go. That is usually the wrong move, because YouTube and Meta re-encode whatever you send them anyway.
8 minute readHow to livestream on YouTube, using YouTube's own numbers
The subscriber rule blocks one route and not the others, the bitrate table is published, and the archive has a 12-hour cliff most guides never mention.
8 minute readHow to make money on Pinterest, and what each route is actually worth
Pinterest shut its Creator Rewards programme in November 2022 and never replaced it with an ad revenue share. Every dollar you make on Pinterest arrives from somewhere off Pinterest — here is where, and roughly how much.
8 minute readHow to promote a podcast when nobody can see it
Apple says ratings and reviews are not factored into its charts. The median Buzzsprout episode gets 27 downloads in its first week. Here is what actually moves a podcast, and what is theatre.
8 minute readHow to start a newsletter
The platform question gets most of the attention and matters least. The parts that are genuinely hard to undo are your sending domain, your consent record, and the cadence you promised.
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View all 114 →How to use Twitter (X) in 2026
Most guides to this platform describe features that no longer exist. Communities shut down in May 2026, DMs became Chat, and the home screen now has more than two tabs.
9 minute readHow the X (Twitter) algorithm actually works
X is the only large platform that publishes the code ranking its main feed. It also had to add a comment to that code correcting the most-repeated claim about it.
9 minute readHow to use Pinterest: the setup, the formats and the search mindset
Pinterest reported 640 million monthly active users in its Q2 2026 results, and almost none of them are scrolling a friend feed — they are searching. That changes what you publish, how you title it, and how long it keeps working.
8 minute readClipping & Repurposing
View all 16 →How to livestream and clip it afterwards
Twitch deletes most streamers' past broadcasts after seven days and Facebook deletes live video after thirty. What you record locally, and how, decides what you can still post next week.
8 minute readHow to build a clip library you can actually re-use
Four hundred exported clips in a folder is not a library. A library is one row per clip, carrying the hook line, a short tag set, and a record of everywhere it has already run.
8 minute readHow to turn a blog post into a video
A 1,500-word article read aloud is roughly eight minutes of video. Here is how to work out which single idea in it earns the runtime, and why most lists do not survive the jump.
8 minute readCaptions & Subtitles
View all 9 →How to translate video captions
Auto-translated captions inherit every error in the auto-transcript underneath them, and translated text runs longer than the English it replaced. Here is the order of operations that avoids both.
8 minute readHow to add subtitles in CapCut
CapCut transcribes a clip in seconds. The five minutes after that — corrections, line breaks, styling and placement — are what separate readable subtitles from a wall of text.
7 minute readWhat are burned-in captions?
Burned-in captions are subtitles baked into the video itself, so they always appear and can't be turned off. Here's when to use them versus closed captions.
5 minute readVideo Basics
View all 30 →How to record your screen on any device
Every device you own already has a screen recorder built in. The differences that matter are not the keyboard shortcut but what audio each one captures and how readable the result is on a phone.
8 minute readHow to compress a video without wrecking the quality
Most compression advice tells you to squeeze the file as small as it will go. That is usually the wrong move, because YouTube and Meta re-encode whatever you send them anyway.
8 minute readFree stock video sites, and what their licences actually say
Attribution rules differ by site and sometimes by clip. None of these libraries hands you a model release. Here is what each licence page says, in its own words.
9 minute readTools & Reviews
View all 77 →The best social media scheduling tools, judged on vertical video
Every scheduler handles a photo fine. They separate on video — file size caps, codecs your iPhone uses by default, cover images, and which formats a tool will publish without you.
8 minute readThe best social media analytics tools, and what they cannot show you
Connect Instagram to a paid tool and it imports around two years of posts but only 90 days of follower history. Connect TikTok and you get 60 days. That gap is most of what you are paying for.
8 minute readThe best hashtag generators, and what they can't actually know
Buffer, Ahrefs and Canva run a language model. Flick and SISTRIX query their own crawl of public posts. Only TikTok's Creative Center shows numbers the platform itself publishes.
8 minute readDoes AI-assisted content actually perform worse?
Three credible studies asked whether AI content underperforms and got three different answers. The disagreement is the finding — and it tells you exactly where the line is.
8 minute readHow creators and teams actually use AI
The gap between what people use AI for and what they admit to using it for is the whole story — and it is why a written policy beats good intentions.
7 minute readAI prompts for social media, by the job they do
Prompt libraries usually fail because they are written for a blank page. These are written for material you already have, which is the only kind that produces something you can post.
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