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AI-powered YouTube research for teams

Turn Any YouTube Channel Into Structured Research Data

Import channels, let AI transcribe every video, and pull out Q&As, facts, sponsors and studies automatically. Your team searches one place, not fifty playlists.

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2,000+
Channels tracked
500K+
Videos analyzed
1M+
AI insights extracted
99.9%
Uptime

Research at YouTube scale breaks human workflows

  • Pulling 500 channel stats by hand takes 14 hours and the numbers go stale the same day.

  • Watching a 90-minute interview to find one study citation wastes 89 minutes you will never get back.

  • Your team's research lives in four Notion docs, three spreadsheets and one person's browser history.

You need one place where every video is already transcribed, tagged and searchable. That is what this does.

Core capabilities built for research

Six things that turn raw YouTube channels into searchable answers.

Channel import at scale

Import any public channel by URL. We pull metadata, videos, thumbnails and stats, then keep them fresh automatically.

AI video extraction

Powered by top-tier AI models. Transcribes every video and pulls out Q&As, facts, testimonials, studies, sponsors, people and products.

Instant full-text search

Search millions of titles, descriptions and transcripts in milliseconds. Results come back the moment you stop typing.

Viral score detection

Surface videos outperforming their channel baseline. Sort by view velocity, engagement or duration to find what actually worked.

Mind maps for teams

Visually connect insights, people and studies. Share boards with viewer, commenter, editor and owner access.

Team workspaces

Group channels into projects. Share research across teammates with role-based access and a full activity log.

AI that reads every video for you

Drop a channel into a project and every video gets transcribed within minutes. The AI then reads the transcript and pulls out the Q&As, facts, sponsors and people mentioned. You never open the video unless you want to verify something.

  • Q&As, facts, testimonials, studies, sponsors, people and products — extracted per video
  • Transcripts and summaries saved in your library, searchable across every channel
  • Runs quietly in the background while you work — come back to a filled-in dataset

So you can cite a specific claim from 200 videos without scrubbing a single timeline.

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Channel intelligence that updates itself

Channels keep themselves fresh automatically. Active creators get checked more often, quiet ones less often. You set it once and forget it.

  • Daily refreshes for active creators, weekly for quieter ones — no manual babysitting
  • Handles YouTube API limits for you, across the whole team
  • Stats tracked over time, so you can see trends, not just snapshots

So you can track thousands of channels without ever thinking about it.

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The Screen page — where you actually find stuff

The Screen page is your research surface. Stack filters on top of each other, combine keywords with tags, narrow by date, channel, duration or engagement. Built for people who need answers fast.

  • 23 stackable filters — combine anything with anything
  • Separate shorts, mid-form and long-form videos on one grid
  • Find anything across half a million videos in under a second

So you can isolate "5-minute interview clips from fitness channels mentioning creatine" instantly.

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Every feature, across six categories

From import to extraction to team sharing — the complete research stack.

Channel Intelligence

Every channel you import stays fresh, scored and comparable against its own baseline.

  • Import by URL or search
  • Auto-refresh — daily for active creators, weekly for quiet ones
  • Subscriber, view, like and comment tracking
  • Kids-content detection
  • Thumbnail archiving
  • Upload cadence analysis
  • Channel engagement ratios
  • Historical stats tracked over time
  • Managed playlists per channel
  • Group channels into projects

AI Content Extraction

Transcription and structured extraction across every video — per channel, per project.

  • Full video transcripts
  • Structured data per video
  • Q&As per video
  • Facts and claims
  • Testimonials with attribution
  • Study and research citations
  • Sponsor and affiliate detection
  • People, products, books and podcasts mentioned
  • Summaries per video
  • Re-run extraction with updated prompts anytime

Discovery & Research

Search hundreds of thousands of videos by keyword, tag, duration and engagement.

  • Instant search across titles and descriptions
  • 23 stackable filters on the Screen page
  • Combine keywords with tags
  • Filter by shorts, mid-form or long-form
  • Sort by viral score
  • Search a single project or your whole workspace
  • Date range filters
  • Channel-set filtering
  • Saved column presets

Knowledge Management

Turn video insights into a linked research library your team can cite from.

  • Mind maps with linked nodes
  • Rich text notes
  • Q&A library across channels
  • Facts database
  • Studies and sources library
  • People profiles
  • Product catalog
  • Books, podcasts and magazines
  • Glossary and topics
  • Watch later and watch history
  • Affiliate link tracking

Automation & Alerts

Background jobs keep your library fresh so you never have to press refresh.

  • Auto channel updates
  • Auto video imports
  • AI extraction runs on new videos
  • RSS feed collection
  • Email notifications
  • Push notifications
  • Real-time activity feed
  • Pause jobs during quota crunches
  • Full audit log

Team & Enterprise

Built for teams sharing channels, projects and research across multiple people.

  • Shared channels across teammates
  • Role-based access — viewer, commenter, editor, owner
  • Team workspaces
  • Activity log per action
  • Real-time updates
  • Google sign-in or email/password
  • Admin dashboard
  • Per-user quota management
  • Error log with resolution workflow
  • Job monitoring

Built for six kinds of researchers

If your job requires citing what people said on YouTube, you are the target.

Content strategy agencies

Track every channel in a client's niche and surface trending hooks weekly. Extract claims competitors make so strategists can counter-position without rewatching videos.

  • Weekly trend reports in 15 minutes
  • Competitor claim library per client
  • Hook patterns across 200 channels

Academic researchers

Build citation databases from YouTube interviews and lectures. Pull study references and speaker claims into structured rows ready for qualitative coding.

  • Citation extraction across 500 lectures
  • Speaker attribution on every quote
  • Export to CSV for NVivo or Atlas.ti

Journalists and investigators

Monitor public figures and channels for claims, sponsors and contradictions. Get alerted when a tracked channel publishes and surface the transcript within minutes.

  • Claim timeline per public figure
  • Sponsor disclosure tracking
  • Fast transcript access under deadline

Content creators studying competitors

Load 50 competitor channels into a project and sort by viral score. See which topics outperform each creator's baseline and mine hooks that worked.

  • Viral outlier detection per channel
  • Hook and title pattern library
  • Topic gap analysis across niche

Marketing analysts

Extract sponsor mentions, affiliate links and product placements across industries. Report on which creators drive which brand categories.

  • Sponsor mention database per vertical
  • Product placement frequency tables
  • Brand-creator affinity mapping

Internal research teams

Share one channel library across researchers with role-based access. Prevent duplicate imports and keep notes, tags and extractions in one workspace.

  • One source of truth per team
  • Role-scoped access to sensitive projects
  • Audit trail for compliance reviews

How it works

01

Import channels

Paste a YouTube channel URL or search by name. We pull metadata, subscriber counts, every public video and thumbnails in one background job.

02

Auto-transcribe

AI reads each video directly and produces a clean transcript in your library. No uploads, no manual steps.

03

Extract insights

The AI reads transcripts and pulls out Q&As, facts, studies, sponsors, testimonials, people and products — one structured row per finding.

04

Search and share

Search across every channel instantly, connect insights in mind maps, and share projects with your team with role-based access.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does CreatorInsights extract data from YouTube videos?

Drop in a channel and every video gets transcribed automatically. The AI then reads the transcript and pulls out the Q&As, facts, testimonials, studies, sponsors, people and products — one structured row per finding. Everything is saved in your library so your team can search across every video in a channel, a project, or the whole workspace.

What AI is behind it?

We combine multiple top-tier AI models across transcription, analysis and extraction — each chosen for accuracy and speed on its specific task. You don't have to think about them — drop in a channel and the pipeline handles the rest.

Can I track channels my team also researches?

Yes. Channels are shared across the workspace, not locked to one person. Add a channel to a project and every teammate with access sees the same videos, transcripts and extractions. No duplicate imports, no wasted work. Access is controlled with four roles: viewer, commenter, editor and owner.

How much does CreatorInsights cost?

There is a free tier for individuals to import a few channels and try the AI extraction. Paid plans unlock more channels, team workspaces, shared limits, admin controls and priority processing. Start free and upgrade when you hit a limit.

How does it handle YouTube's daily limits?

YouTube gives each account a daily quota. CreatorInsights manages that quota across your whole team automatically — rotating across keys, prioritizing what matters, and leaving a buffer so personal actions never get blocked. You get a dashboard to see exactly what was used and where.

What does the viral score detect?

Viral score compares a video's views and engagement against its own channel's baseline, not against all of YouTube. A mid-size channel hitting 10x its normal views scores higher than a mega-channel hitting 2x. Sort any list by viral score to find outliers inside a specific niche.

Can I export research out of CreatorInsights?

Yes. Videos, transcripts, insights and channel lists export to CSV and JSON. Mind maps export to PNG and JSON. Everything you put in is yours to take out.

Is CreatorInsights for creators or researchers?

Both, but leaning toward researchers and analysts. Creators use the viral score and trend dashboards. Researchers, journalists and marketing analysts use the AI extraction, citation libraries, mind maps and team workspaces. If you only want thumbnail optimization, this is the wrong tool. If you want structured data out of 500 videos, this is exactly the tool.

How fresh is the channel data?

Channels refresh automatically — daily for active creators, weekly or less for quieter ones. This keeps the data fresh where it matters and avoids wasting effort on dormant channels. Admins can override the frequency per channel.

What happens to my data if I cancel?

Your channels, transcripts, insights and mind maps stay in your workspace during the cancellation grace period. Export everything to CSV or JSON before your workspace is archived. Shared channels stay in the pool for other teams, but your private projects, notes and settings are removed on final deletion.

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