vidIQ

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What it does

vidIQ is a YouTube research and analytics tool that mostly lives as a browser extension, overlaying its own numbers on the pages you are already looking at, which is why it gets used more consistently than dashboards that need a separate visit. It scores keywords, surfaces what a competing channel appears to be doing, and tracks your own videos against expectations. Its recommendations are opinionated and should be read as prompts rather than instructions. It is single-platform by design, so a creator publishing widely still needs something else.

Alternatives

Other tools we list for the grow stage.

• MetricoolScheduling plus analytics and competitor tracking in one dashboard.
• AnswerThePublicTurns a keyword into the questions people actually search around it.
• Thumbnail TestRuns A/B tests on YouTube thumbnails and titles and reports which won.