USE CASE:
The hard part of audience size for food and beverage brands on YouTube
Everything below is about one job: audience size for food and beverage brands on YouTube, done in a way that survives a list rather than a single lookup. Mamba Labs builds the Apify actors named here, so YouTube Channel Stats Extractor is something you run yourself against your own list of food and beverage brands on YouTube.
The situation
On YouTube, food and beverage stops being a lookup and becomes a project. YouTube is a search engine that pays, so a subscriber count and a view count measure different things, which shapes audience size for food and beverage brands on YouTube. What catches people out on food and beverage brands on YouTube, audience size included: distribution is the actual qualifier and it appears nowhere on the website. We keep 1 preconfigured task for audience size on food and beverage brands on YouTube, across 1 tool.
Traditional Search Tools
- Retailer product listings, for food and beverage brands on YouTube. Free to browse, and being on shelf is worth more than every other signal combined.
- The channel's recent uploads, for food and beverage brands on YouTube. Free, and the gap between subscribers and recent views is the honest number.
- The platform APIs. Official, accurate and gated. Most now require an app review to read a public follower count, which is weeks of work for one number.
- Social listening suites. Brandwatch, Sprout and the rest do this among many other things. Priced for a brand team, not for a qualification step in a sales list.
- SimilarWeb or a traffic estimator. A different proxy for the same question. Better for whether anyone visits, worse for whether anyone follows.
- Open the profiles. Find the accounts, read the numbers, write them down. Two minutes per brand per network, and completely accurate on the day you do it.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.
- YouTube Channel Stats Extractor1 preconfigured task on this page's job.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.