Track YouTube channel stats automatically in Google Sheets

Checks your tracked YouTube channels daily and logs each new video's views, likes, and comments into Google Sheets.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each tracked youtube channel.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Starts itA stepRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
YouTubeGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

Keeping tabs on competitor or industry YouTube channels means checking each one manually and copying view counts and engagement numbers somewhere you can compare them. It is easy to forget, and by the time you check, the numbers have already moved on.

Who it fits

Marketers or content teams tracking YouTube performance across multiple channels.

How it works

  1. Every day at a set time, the system checks your list of YouTube channels
  2. It pulls each channel's most recent videos and their stats
  3. Shorts and very short clips are filtered out
  4. New videos appear and existing ones update in Google Sheets
What you get

YouTube performance tracked across every channel

You get daily updated view, like, and comment counts for every video across your tracked YouTube channels, logged in a spreadsheet.

What you get

An up-to-date Google Sheet tracking video performance for every channel.

What you need

A Google Sheets account and a YouTube account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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