How to increase trust in facebook's eyes
The speaker explains how to build trust with Facebook's ad platform by making frequent manual payments on your ad billing. The strategy mirrors the concept of maintaining low credit utilization in personal finance. Consistently running clean, compliant ads alongside manual payments helps increase your account's trustworthiness over time.
Summary
The speaker addresses the question of how advertisers can increase their trust score in Facebook's eyes, focusing primarily on billing behavior as a key signal. The core recommendation is to make frequent manual payments on your Facebook ad account rather than waiting for automatic charges to hit a threshold. By proactively paying down your balance every few hours, you demonstrate financial reliability to the platform.
The speaker draws a direct analogy to personal credit scores, explaining that high credit utilization — spending a large portion of your available credit — negatively impacts your credit score. Similarly, allowing your Facebook ad spend to balloon up to or beyond your billing threshold may signal risk to Facebook's systems. By making manual payments frequently, advertisers can keep their effective 'utilization' below around 30% or even lower, which the speaker suggests is optimal.
Beyond billing behavior, the speaker also emphasizes the importance of running 'clean' ads — described not just as white hat, but 'vanilla' ads — meaning straightforward, policy-compliant advertising with no gray-area tactics. The speaker concludes that combining consistent manual payments with compliant ad content will, over time, lead Facebook to raise your trust level and presumably your spending limits or account standing.
Key Insights
- The speaker claims that making manual payments on your Facebook ad account every few hours — before reaching the automatic billing threshold — signals financial trustworthiness to Facebook.
- The speaker draws a direct analogy between Facebook ad billing and credit card utilization, arguing that letting your balance run too high relative to your threshold works against you, similar to how high credit utilization hurts a credit score.
- The speaker specifically recommends keeping your effective ad spend utilization below 30% — and ideally even lower — by making frequent manual payments, mirroring the 30% credit utilization benchmark used in personal finance.
- The speaker argues that ad content quality matters for trust-building, and characterizes the ideal ad not just as 'white hat' but as 'vanilla' — meaning overtly safe, standard, and unambiguously policy-compliant.
- The speaker asserts that consistently combining manual payments with clean ad content will cause Facebook to raise your trust level over time, implying that account trust is a gradual, behavior-based process rather than an instant designation.
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Transcript
[0:00] How do you gain more trust in the eyes of Facebook? You should make manual payments on your billing. So, if you're paying on credit card at the moment, just go into your account every few hours and make manual payments. I'm going out of my way to pay down my balance before it even gets to the threshold. This is essentially the equivalent in credit cards where if you're spending a lot of money on your credit card, then you are going to surpass what is an optimal credit utilization that affects your credit score. So, if you go and make manual payments frequently, then you can keep your utilization always a below at least [0:30] like 30%,…
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