YouTube Monitoring Made Easy

Get Alerts for your YouTube Mentions

Get real-time alerts for YouTube mentions, track competitors, and identify growth opportunities with AI-powered social listening.

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YouTube Mentions Monitoring

Loved by 1000+ AI & Developer Brands

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Why you should monitor YouTube

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Monitor your brand

Identify potential partners or potential customers talking about your brand.

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Manage your reputation

Quickly address issues, manage crises, and refine your public messaging.

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Collect customer feedback

Collect customer feedback and insights directly from YouTube.

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Outpace your competitors

Be the first one to respond to critical online conversations.

How YouTube monitoring works

1. Define your YouTube keywords

Track keywords for your brand name, your competitors, or the pain points you are solving. Octolens will scan YouTube so you never miss a mention.

brand namecompetitor namepain point

2. Let AI filter out the YouTube noise

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3. Get notified of YouTube mentions

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Define your YouTube keywords

"Octolens is on my daily checklist. The more i use it, the weirder its not to. I check socials A LOT and still would not have caught a lot of these conversations"

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Timur Ercan
Co-Founder & CEO, Documenso

All you need for YouTube monitoring

Octolens comes with all the features you need to monitor YouTube and other social platforms effectively.

Monitor YouTube and other platforms relevant for B2B

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Email or Slack notifications

Get notified whenever somebody mentions your keyword - either via email or Slack.

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AI-powered relevance scoring

We have context on your business & score posts on their relevance to you, filtering out the noise.

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Analytics with Shareable reports

Understand and report keyword trends over time, platforms, and relevance and share them with your team.

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Webhooks

Consume your mentions via webhooks and connect them to any system of your choice.

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Trusted by 1000s of founders, marketing, and DevRel teams

Anna Redbond
Anna Redbond
Head of Marketing, Flagsmith
There's few tools I'd put my name to, Octolens is one of them - it's worth trying
Igor Lamos
Igor Lamos
Founder, beplus.cloud
Subscribed and already getting relevant posts. Onboarding is simple, I was able to get up & running in few minutes.
Mike Choi
Mike Choi
Founder, South Park Commons
Great product! Super useful if you want to know what your customers/competitors are talking about your product. You could do this manually but the amount of time/brain cycles you save from this product is definitely worth it 👍
Guillermo Rauch
Guillermo Rauch
CEO, Vercel
Wild AI-native onboarding experience. I literally entered zero input other than `vercel⁠.com` 🫨
Robin Guldener
Robin Guldener
Co-Founder, Nango (YC W23)
Octolens is very helpful for us to find relevant conversations in social media for our open-source product. Would not want to miss this in my toolchain anymore!
Leonard Püttmann
Leonard Püttmann
Developer Relations, Kern AI
At Kern AI, we use Octolens daily. It's a fantastic tool to engage with your community and find content quickly.
Matija Sosic
Matija Sosic
Co-Founder, Wasp (YC W21)
This is a really helpful tool for every community builder!
Alex Harris
Alex Harris
Founder, Adadot
Here at Adadot we have a daily power-hour during which we use Octolens to surface any community content with commenting on or sharing. Great tool!
Hakim Elakhrass
Hakim Elakhrass
Co-founder, NannyML
All of our content writers also use Octolens to find relevant mentions to comment on.
Felix Magedanz
Felix Magedanz
Founder, Hanko
A happy customer since day 1. Octolens helps us keep up with the chatter on all relevant platforms.
David Paffenholz
David Paffenholz
CEO & Co-Founder, Juicebox (YC S22)
Octolens is part of my daily routine. I save hours a week checking socials for important conversations about PeopleGPT.
Mahmoud Mabrouk
Mahmoud Mabrouk
Co-founder, Agenta
I've been using Octolens for a couple of months, and it is really helpful. The AI feature to filter the mentions to the ones relevant to you is very useful and spares me lots of times looking into hundreds of irrelevant posts.
George Novik
George Novik
Founder, Zerocoder
Octolens is a game changer for DevTool companies! It's great to see a tool that prioritizes genuine engagement over traditional marketing tactics.
Johannes Hötter
Johannes Hötter
Co-Founder, Kern AI
Octolens allows us to find relevant discussions outside of our own spectrum. It's literally scanning all relevant platforms, and then suggesting where we need to engage with developers to have a high chance to attract new engaged users.

Brand Monitoring With Fair Pricing

Pay MonthlyPay AnnuallySave up to 34%

Starter

$69/month

  • 3,000 mentions
  • 3 keywords
  • 6-months data retention
  • 1-hour intervals
  • 3 seats
  • Email & Slack notifications

For upcoming brands like

Refact.aiMCP Use
Popular

Pro

$99/month

  • Everything in Basic, and:
  • 20,000 mentions
  • 10 keywords
  • 24-months data retention
  • Unlimited seats
  • Webhooks
  • AI relevance scoring & replies

For growing brands like

JuiceboxTally

Scale

$299/month

  • Everything in Pro, and:
  • 50,000 mentions
  • 15 keywords
  • 48-months data retention
  • Real-time alerts
  • AI summaries
  • Custom AI tags (soon)

For well-known brands like

PostHogPrisma

Enterprise

Custom

From $499/month, billed annually

  • Everything in Scale, and:
  • Multiple workspaces
  • Unlimited mentions
  • Unlimited keywords
  • Unlimited seats
  • Custom integrations

For viral brands like

Vercel

FAQ: Keyword Monitoring for YouTube

We check YouTube for new content hourly. If you need more frequent updates, please contact us at hi@octolens.com.

You can monitor videos, comments, channel discussions, and community posts that contain your keywords. This includes titles, descriptions, and captions.

Yes! You can monitor specific channels, track competitor content, or monitor broader keyword mentions across all of YouTube.

Yes, we support various YouTube search filters including upload date, video type, duration, and more to help you find the most relevant content.

We optimize our monitoring to work within YouTube's API quotas while ensuring reliable coverage. Our system is designed to maintain consistent monitoring without interruption.

Yes! You can customize your notifications based on AI relevance scores (high, medium, low) and receive them via email, Slack, or our web app.

Currently, we focus on monitoring uploaded videos and their engagement. Live stream monitoring may be added in future updates.

Yes, you can export your YouTube monitoring data in various formats. We also provide webhook integration for connecting with your existing tools.