YouTube Social Listening Firehose · Pricing Calculator

YouTube Social Listening Data

After two decades of trying, Social Listening Platforms still cannot report YouTube results.
Noisy, inaccurate and incomplete, today's video results are simply not good enough.
People blame YouTube Quota Limitations. Actually, that's not the problem.

Touchstorm DataLabs has solved the most vexing Big Data Problem in marketing - YouTube Social Listening.

We've expanded, appended, enriched, transformed and classified YouTube's data so it can be accurately queried for brands and topical information. It took us 15 years to do it, but your results come back in a few minutes.

No more missing videos. No more results where Noise outweighs Signal. Historical Trends. Sentiment. Expansive Creator Data.

Get shockingly better YouTube results. Then, dramatically improve results from Reels & TikTok, too. Most creators post on all three sites, so at a certain spending threshold, we return your queries, fully fixed up and ready to improve results elsewhere.

Late 2026 will bring Social Listening disruption. Certain platforms are about to escape Data Parity.

Customers have had few reasons to switch. But now, some platforms are about to conquer Video Social Listening. Those accessing our data will see market shares shift in their direction as platform-switchers arrive, POs in hand.

Touchstorm DataLabs is the only place on the planet with the data to do Video Social Listening right.
Fully YouTube API Compliant, We're Ready For Your Queries.

+35M Channels Searched
+5B Videos Searched
All Signal/No Noise Guarantee

Configure Your YouTube Social Listening Firehose

Click any i for detail and examples.

HOW DOMINANT IS YOUTUBE?

YouTube is the biggest platform for Social Listening Results, by far. Its big content volume is accompanied by engagement deep enough to be persuasive - and that's what enterprise brands love. Consumers spend just 10 seconds reading a Tweet or absorbing an Instagram photo, but they spend an average of 8 minutes with a YouTube video featuring a brand. Get the Stats.

YOUTUBE API QUOTA ISSUE

"Why won't YouTube give us enough API quota to report accurately on their medium?" Everyone asks.  

Let's be clear:  more YouTube quota won't help the platforms extract better Social Listening Results. The problem is two-fold: database structure on YouTube's end, and blind query-writing on the platforms' end.  

Touchstorm DataLabs fixes both.
See our Test Results under Adjusted & Contextual Queries.

THE TOUCHSTORM VIDEO INDEX

Welcome to the Touchstorm Video Index, our Marketing Taxonomy. 
It's our database structure that's been built for Brands, Products & Product Categories, but its Topics cover every aspect of the human experience.  No matter what a YouTube video is about, it has a place to live in the TVi - and it's ready for you to study. This is where your queries go. It's YouTube's database, but completely reformatted, enriched and reconfigured to produce wholly different results than querying the YouTube Search API.
•  We boil the YouTube ocean every night, which means your clients won't be able to point out Missing Videos.
•  Results are always current through yesterday.
•  We've classified all videos featuring brands, products or product categories by Topic, enabling rich analyses for your site that goes beyond listing posts.
•  We've been collecting data since 2007, meaning we caught the data early enough to provide Historical Trends in compliance with YouTube guidelines.
•  We've appended all the data with other data and metrics important to brands, enabling deeper strategic analyses.  
•  Our grandfathered quota status means we don't need to limit your results.  
•  Our All Signal/No Noise Guarantee means you can confidently charge clients by result. 
•  Our enhanced Creator Data connects Social Listening data to its logical outcome - the recruitment of Influencers.

Finally, true YouTube Social Listening is here. We're ready for your queries.
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Query Volume

Estimate Your Data Costs by Entering the Number of Brand Queries You'll Submit
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Publishing Recency

YouTube is the only social where older content continues to attract new and repeat viewing, which is very attractive to brands. We will run your query against the time boundary you choose here.
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Historical Backfill

No waiting to draw trendlines. With each data refresh, you'll receive this much historical data on a rolling basis. How far back should we go?
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Data Refresh Frequency

What you choose will impact your users.
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Search Depth

How deep into each video should we look?
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Video Metrics

Choose to include the Basic Metrics you believe the majority of your clients will want.

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Creator Metrics

Creator Metrics provide vital information about who made the video.
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Query Management

Brand Queries can run as Exact, Adjusted, or Contextual — choose below.
Query Exclusions
Running queries that need a different setup?

Add another batch with its own volume, history and depth. It's priced into this same request.

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Base per-query rate $88.88
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Billed once on initial pull — $2,500 (Exact or Adjusted) or $5,000 (Contextual) minimum, then scaled by volume. Does not recur.
Pricing notes. The per-query rate starts at $88.88 (Query Type 1) or $88.88 (Query Type 2, which is Contextual-only) for the base configuration — 6-month backfill, weekly refresh, titles-only depth, basic video metrics, no creator metrics, and exact queries — and each selection above adjusts it multiplicatively. The per-query rate is flat across volumes — no volume surcharge or discount. Your monthly total is simply the per-query rate times your query count. Geography and producer type do not change the price. All numbers are USD, monthly recurring, with a 12-month minimum on transcript-tier configurations. Multi-firehose discounts available — ask us.