Platform Intelligence

YouTube

YouTube reaches over 2 billion logged-in monthly users across videos, Shorts, live streams, and podcasts, making it important for search visibility, education, brand storytelling, and creator-led demand.

Why YouTube video data matters

YouTube is not only a video platform. It is also a search engine, a recommendation system, a learning network, and a creator economy layer. For many categories, users look to YouTube before they buy, learn, compare, or form an opinion.

What Problem Does It Solve?

Video research is difficult when a system only sees titles or isolated clips. Teams usually need search results, video detail enrichment, and the flexibility to reach broader YouTube data workflows. That structure helps with creator analysis, media monitoring, product research, and AI-powered video intelligence.

Who Is It For?

Media researchers, creator economy teams, and video-intelligence products.

Brands and agencies monitoring creators, categories, reviews, and educational content.

Developers building video search, creator research, or media-enrichment workflows.

AI teams creating assistants that need video discovery and detail retrieval as inputs.

Key Benefits

Search YouTube content directly and enrich results with video-details retrieval.

Use the flexible call surface for broader YouTube workflows beyond a simple search-first pattern.

Support creator intelligence, video monitoring, category research, and media analysis.

Bring YouTube retrieval into API, MCP, and web app workflows with the same product contract.

Help teams move from video discovery to structured analysis more quickly.

Use Cases

Find videos and channels relevant to a product category, issue, trend, or creator segment.

Retrieve detailed information for shortlisted videos before analysis or reporting.

Support research into reviews, explainers, tutorials, podcasts, creator strategies, and audience narratives.

Let AI agents compile video evidence packs, creator briefs, or media summaries.

How It Works

Start with YouTube search to discover relevant content.

Use video-details retrieval to enrich shortlisted videos and gather the fields your workflow needs.

Use the broader call surface when your application needs to reach additional YouTube data operations.

AI and MCP Workflows

Use MCP so AI agents can search YouTube, inspect video details, and assemble creator or topic briefs before writing a report.

Combine YouTube with Google search, TikTok, Reddit, and web sources for richer media intelligence.

Automate video discovery and evidence gathering for research, marketing, and analysis teams.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this only for video search? No. It also includes video-details retrieval and a flexible call surface for broader YouTube workflows.

Who benefits most from YouTube data access? Teams working on creators, reviews, education, research, media analysis, and video discovery.

Can AI agents use this for creator or topic summaries? Yes. MCP access supports that directly.

Getting Started

Start by deciding whether your workflow begins with search, specific video enrichment, or a broader YouTube operation reachable through the call surface. Then map those endpoints into your application or AI workflow so the system can move from video discovery to usable intelligence. API, MCP, and web app access are included. Usage is billed by request tier. For teams running ongoing video monitoring or creator research, the annual plan is the better value because you pay for only 10 months and get 12 months of access, which gives you 2 months free.

Pricing

Simple per-result pricing - one credit per result delivered.

Tier	Credits	Price	Overage Cost
Micro	200	CAD 60/mo CAD 600/yr	CAD 0.36/credit
Starter	1,000	CAD 240/mo CAD 2,400/yr	CAD 0.29/credit
Business	4,000	CAD 600/mo CAD 6,000/yr	CAD 0.18/credit
Enterprise	20,000	CAD 1,800/mo CAD 18,000/yr	CAD 0.11/credit

Pricing Explanation

Simple per-result pricing - one credit per result delivered.

How Pricing Works

Credit Usage

Per Result:1 credit

Simple and straightforward - each result delivered consumes one credit from your monthly allowance.

How It Works

Each plan includes a monthly credit allowance
One credit is used for each result delivered
Unused credits do not roll over to the next month
Track your usage in real-time through your dashboard

Plan Features Comparison

Feature	Micro	Starter	Business	Enterprise
Number of Queries	1	3	10	30
Email Recipients	1	5	20	100
Webhooks	1	3	10	20
Portfolio Companies	1	10	40	200