Discover trending YouTube videos in your niche automatically

Submit a topic and it finds high-performing YouTube videos and builds a ranked report in Google Sheets.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each matching video.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database OpsResearch & Market IntelligenceSurvey & Feedback
Connects
YouTubeGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

Finding out what's actually trending in your niche means scrolling YouTube for hours and guessing which videos are worth studying. By the time you spot a pattern manually, the trend has often already peaked.

Who it fits

A content creator, digital marketer, or YouTube strategist researching content trends.

How it works

  1. You submit a topic and a time range through a simple form
  2. YouTube is searched for videos matching your topic and timeframe
  3. View, like, comment, and engagement data is pulled for each video
  4. Low-performing and duplicate videos are filtered out
  5. The results are organized into a Google Sheets report with a link sent back to you
What you get

Trending videos in your niche already ranked for you

You can submit a topic and get back a ranked report of the best-performing YouTube videos in that space, organized in a spreadsheet.

What you get

A ranked Google Sheets report of trending videos in your niche, with engagement data for each one.

What you need

A YouTube Data API key and a Google Sheets 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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