Free YouTube Video Placement Targeting Tool

YouTube Placement Targeting with Google Ads

There are two main use-cases for Adzoola’s Video Search.

1. YouTube Ads: Finding videos and channels you can target in your YouTube ad campaigns. Video Search by Adzoola is a YouTube ads placement targeting tool.
2. Researching topics for your next YouTube video.

As a media buyer you’re already familiar with what placement targeting is, so you can skip to the next section! In case you aren’t aware, YouTube placement targeting is the most specific targeting method you can use to target people with YouTube ads.

It’s also the most targeted you can get on any social media platform of a similar size (if you see YouTube as social media).

With placement targeting you can choose to show your ad on (or around) specific individual YouTube videos or channels.

It’s often said in marketing that you want to reach right audience with the right message at the right time. That’s what YouTube placement targeting allows you to do.

It means you can:

🎯 Target a very specific audience with high relevance and intent.
📈 Get a high return on ad spend (ROAS).
👨‍🔬 Test and learn on a small scale.
🎛️ Have maximum control over where your ad shows.
🪙 See ROI positive results even with small budgets.

Why a YouTube Placement Targeting Tool?

Speed

Finding YouTube videos and channels to target was a slow, manual task. Only those who could spare the time to trawl through YouTube’s results would even create a placement campaign.

For Google Ads agency execs (like you?) finding the time to set up a YouTube placement targeted campaign doing it that way would be a challenge. But with Video Search, you can get hundreds of results across multiple keywords in seconds. In a few more seconds you can sort, filter and remove until you have the videos you want.

Ease of use

You can use multiple keywords in one search. Adzoola will de-duplicate videos appearing for multiple keywords and show you which keywords they appear for and sort by visibility.

Delete any video, or multiple videos, in the result quickly.

Extract and view data quickly

• Get the video URLs (all, filtered or selected) in an instant for your placement targeting.
• Get the video titles at the click of a button (you can edit these and use them as keywords)
• Get stats on the channel that posted the video by expanding the row or see the channels tab.

Filtering capabilities

You have lots of filter options to narrow the results. And the results update instantly.

Tap into YouTube’s suggested videos

With the ‘Related by video’ and ‘Related by keyword’ tools you can get videos YouTube suggests are related to the video or keyword you enter. Really powerful to expand on a regular keyword search.

Interesting fact: Suggested videos get 70%+ of the watch time on YouTube.

Finding YouTube Placements with Video Search

For a video walk through of how to use Video Search, click the ‘How it works’ link next to the tool. It’s split up into chapters for each of the four tools in Video Search.

Here are a few brief instructions to get you started:

How to find placements in YouTube’s search results 

1. Enter a keyword
2. Choose your options: Publish date | Order of results | Number of results | Country | Language (I usually leave these as they are unless I have a specific reason not to)
3. Click search
4. Filter your results with the many instantly updating filters.
5. Click ‘Get results’ and choose whether you want all or just the filtered or just ones you selected.
6. Click ‘Copy to clipboard’.

Now you’re ready to place them in your video campaign’s placement targeting area in Google Ads.

You can use multiple keywords in one search in the full version.

How to get placements from YouTube suggested videos

There are two ways to get the suggested videos shown next to a specific video (or videos):

A) Using a URL: Click ‘Related by video’ in the menu above the search box and enter a video URL

OR

B) Using a video in the results: Click the checkbox next to a result from a previous search (like the instructions above). You’ll see a menu appear above the results. Click ‘Find related videos’.

You can use multiple videos in one search in the full version.

Using keywords to get placements from YouTube suggested videos

1. Click ‘Related by keyword’ in the menu above the search area
2. Enter your keyword
3. Choose how many seed videos you want to use (5 in full version). Note: Seed videos means the number of videos related to your keyword that Adzoola uses to get results.
4. Click search