8 Best YouTube Keyword Tools 2024

 8 Best YouTube Keyword Tools 2024

Looking for a list of the best keyword tools for YouTube keyword research? It’s here. 

YouTube is the world’s 2nd largest search engine, with over one billion hours of video watched daily.

But the question is, what are people searching for?

And what should you create videos about?

Keyword research is the only way to answer that, but unfortunately, there’s no official research tool for YouTube as there is with Google. Even worse, many popular third-party tools do nothing but kick back useless numbers from Google Keyword Planner.

Luckily, there are some good tools.

Below, we’ll talk about what these are

1. TubeBuddy

TubeBuddy is a freemium browser extension for Chrome. It adds a sidebar to the YouTube UI with additional keyword data.

On the search results, you’ll see the “Search Explorer” overlay. This shows estimated global search volume, competition, and an overall keyword score out of 100. According to TubeBuddy, their keyword score tells you “how good a keyword is to target based on search volume and competition.”

2. vidIQ

vidIQ is another freemium Chrome extension that adds additional data to the YouTube UI.

Much of its functionality is similar to TubeBuddy. In the search results, it shows search volume, competition, overall keyword score, related queries, keyword stats, and the tags from the top-ranking videos.

vidIQ doesn’t tell us the precise formula they use for the “competition” score. However, they do state they look at the “total amount of engagements (across YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook), view velocity of that video, and views.”

On video results, the stats you see are almost identical to TubeBuddy.

However, one small but useful difference is the ability to export video tags to CSV in a single click (without adding to tags lists first).

3. Morning Fame

Morning Fame is an invite-only YouTube tool focused on analytics and keyword research.

Looking for an invite? Click here. If that doesn’t work, Google “morning fame invite code”—you’ll soon find one.

Once you’re in, the first month is free. After that, it costs a few dollars per month.

So how does this tool work?

Unlike TubeBuddy and vidIQ, Morning Fame does keyword research in a four-step process. The idea is to go through this whenever you want to create a new video, and it begins with choosing a topic.

4. Ahrefs Keywords Explorer

Keywords Explorer runs on a database of over 640 million YouTube keywords.

You can search for almost any keyword and see metrics powered by clickstream data, including local and global search volume (for nearly every country), clicks, click percentage, and more.

What does that mean in real terms? It means you can see how many people search for a query on YouTube every month, and also how many of those searches result in clicks on search results.

5. Google Trends

Google Trends shows whether interest in a topic on YouTube is rising or declining over time.

For example, let’s search for “apple watch,” select “YouTube search” from the dropdown, set the country to the United States, and set the range to the past three years.

6. YouTube (Autosuggest)

Head over to YouTube and type any keyword into the search box.

You should see a dropdown like above.

These suggestions are based on relevant queries people have previously searched on YouTube, and they’re a great source of inspiration for videos.

7. KeywordTool.io

KeywordTool.io is a freemium tool that is essentially a bulk YouTube autosuggest scraper.

What do we mean by bulk? Well, it scrapes the autosuggest results for the keyword you search for. But it also appends and prepends the query with various letters and numbers, and scrapes the autosuggest results for those.

It then divides the keywords into four tabs:

Keyword Suggestions: All autosuggest keywords (excluding those formatted as questions).

Questions: Autosuggest keywords formatted as questions.

Prepositions: Autosuggest keywords containing propositions (from, for, after, etc.). Note that you can also see these in the Keyword Suggestions tab.

Hashtags: Autosuggest keywords with hashtags. (This is usually a rather pointless tab from what I can see).

Usually, you end up with a list of a few hundred keyword ideas.

8. Ahrefs Content Explorer

Content Explorer is a searchable database of over one billion web pages.

How is this relevant to YouTube keyword research?

Because there are currently over 60 million videos from YouTube in the database, and you can see which of them get lots of traffic from Google search. Like this one: