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AI That Watches YouTube For You.

Transcripts, sentiment, speakers, brand mentions and sponsorships from millions of YouTube videos, piped straight into Claude, your agents, or your warehouse.

Channels Covered, Including

Federal ReserveCNBCLinus Tech TipsEuropean Central BankDiary of a CEOMrwhosethebossBank of EnglandReal VisionDoctor MikeBrookings Institution
MKBHDHuberman LabBloomberg TelevisionPatrick BoyleOpenAIOdd Lots (Bloomberg)Financial TimesCouncil on Foreign RelationsShawn Ryan ShowJeff Nippard
All-In PodcastJoe Rogan ExperienceLex FridmanWall Street JournalZeihan on Geopoliticsa16zIGN20VCAustin EvansThe White House
Use Cases

See Who's Already Talking About Your Brand

The only feed that structures YouTube into curated, queryable, routable, actionable data for both managers and agents, with minimal set-up required.

Track Brand + Product Mentions

Enter any brand, product, or keyword and get notified when they're mentioned on YouTube with full context of who said it, speaker attribution, sentiment, topics, and more.

  • videos / mo1M+
  • from publish to feed<3 hr
  • avg sentiment score0.74

Monitor Executive Appearances

Input a list of any CEO, founder, fund manager, or public figure and get notified when they say something interesting on a podcast, interview, panel, etc.

  • tracked figures25K+
  • level attributionSpeaker
  • refresh cadenceDaily

Track Topic + Category Trends

Extract curated insights and sentiment for any topic, vertical, or theme. Surface the channels, creators, and videos driving conversation week over week.

  • curated market channels2.5K+
  • of history5+ yrs
  • trend digestWeekly
The Infrastructure

Your Agent Can't Watch YouTube. Babbl Pipes It In.

Agents already read the web, but the commentary that moves markets happens in podcasts, interviews, and reviews. Babbl is the infrastructure that turns it into enriched, AI-ready data for your models, agents, and LLM workflows. Bought by some of the world's largest hedge funds and PR firms.

Babbl
Babbl

AI-ready YouTube data, enriched and delivered.

  • Expert-curated watchlists and keyword-tracking by focus area.
  • Structured entities: brand, product, person, topic.
  • Speaker-level attribution with timestamps.
  • Full-transcript semantic search across 5+ years.
  • Intraday refresh, 3 hours max from publish.
  • S3, REST, Snowflake, MCP, webhooks. Ready to route.
  • Versioned schema. Replay supported. Dedicated support.
DIY Scrapers: BrightData, Apify & Others

Raw transcripts and a pipeline left for you to build.

  • Self-serve setup. You guess at the right channels and keywords.
  • Raw transcripts. No entity extraction.
  • Channel-level. No speaker attribution.
  • Title + description keyword match.
  • Stale by days or weeks.
  • CSV dumps. You build the pipeline.
  • Best effort. No SLAs.
Playlists

Curated Watchlists For Your Focus Area

We curate dozens of pre-built channel sets for the categories our customers track most, so you can start fast. Get started with one, mix and match, add your own list.

Central Banks
  • Federal Reserve
    Federal Reserve
    @federalreserve
    552K
  • European Central Bank
    European Central Bank
    @ecbeuro
    104K
  • Bank of England
    Bank of England
    @bankofenglanduk
    37.2K
  • Bank of Japan
    Bank of Japan
    @BOJchannel
    16K
+ 48 more channels
Tech Reviewers & Unboxings
  • MKBHD
    MKBHD
    @mkbhd
    21M
  • Linus Tech Tips
    Linus Tech Tips
    @LinusTechTips
    16.8M
  • Austin Evans
    Austin Evans
    @austinevans
    5.8M
  • Mrwhosetheboss
    Mrwhosetheboss
    @Mrwhosetheboss
    22.6M
+ 20 more channels
Financial Media & News
  • CNBC
    CNBC
    @CNBC
    4.2M
  • Bloomberg Television
    Bloomberg Television
    @markets
    3.2M
  • Wall Street Journal
    Wall Street Journal
    @wsj
    6.6M
  • Financial Times
    Financial Times
    @FinancialTimes
    1.4M
+ 23 more channels

Choose a playlist above to see what it covers and its tent-pole channels.

The Corpus

World's Most Comprehensive YouTube Dataset

Every video transcribed, segmented, entity-resolved, and sentiment-tagged. Five years of history, refreshed intraday.

  • 20M+channels with sponsor signals
  • 2.5K+curated market channels
  • 5+ yrsof historical depth
  • <3 hrpublish → feed, intraday
Delivery

Built For All Agents, Models, and Workflows

Receive the same structured feed across S3, REST, Snowflake, MCP, or webhooks, with versioned schema, idempotent IDs, and replay support out of the box.

  • 5+ years of history available with the Knowledge Base.
  • Schema versioned. Breaking changes never silent.
  • Built with agentic workflows in mind.
Amazon S3

NDJSON drops on your schedule.

REST API

Query the live feed by entity or topic.

Snowflake

Native share. No ETL required.

Agent Skill / MCP

Query the data from Claude or ChatGPT.

Webhook

Push events to Slack, Linear, or your tools.

Custom

We integrate with your stack on request.

Datasets & Pricing

Three Purpose-Built YouTube Datasets

From intraday mention alerts to full historical, entity-annotated transcript corpora.

YouTube Knowledge Base
For quant teams & AI labs
  • Coverage2,500+ channels
  • RefreshDaily
  • History5+ years
  • Sentiment
  • Entity detection
  • Speaker info
  • Channel metadata
  • Video metadata
  • Sponsorships & ad reads

Corpus license, priced by history

YouTube Tripwire
For PMs, event desks & PR
  • CoverageYour watchlist
  • RefreshIntraday, <3 hr
  • HistoryAdd-on
  • Sentiment
  • Entity detection
  • Speaker info
  • Channel metadata
  • Video metadata
  • Sponsorships & ad reads

Tiered by volume & channel count

YouTube Brand Sponsor Dataset
For brand spend signals
  • Coverage20M+ channels
  • RefreshDaily
  • HistoryAsk us
  • Sentiment
  • Entity detection
  • Speaker info
  • Channel metadata
  • Video metadata
  • Sponsorships & ad reads

Priced on request

Add-ins: comments, foreign language, alternate geographies

Common Questions.

  • Pick your delivery: S3 (NDJSON), REST API, Snowflake native share, MCP for Claude/ChatGPT, or webhooks to Slack/Linear/your own tools. Schema is versioned and replay is supported on every channel.

  • Tripwire refreshes intraday, with new videos landing in your feed within 3 hours of publish. The Knowledge Base and Brand Sponsor Dataset refresh daily by default.

  • The Knowledge Base is a broad corpus of 2,500+ market-relevant channels with 5+ years of history, built for NLP and quant teams and AI labs. Tripwire is a custom feed of only the keywords, channels, or executives you pick, built for portfolio managers, event desks, and PR teams. The Brand Sponsor Dataset tracks sponsorships and ad reads across 100,000+ channels as a spend signal.

  • Yes. Upload a list of brands, products, executives, channels, or topics. We resolve them to canonical entities and track them across every new video.

  • Scrapers give you raw transcripts. Babbl extracts entities (brand, product, person, topic), attributes them to a speaker with a timestamp, scores sentiment, and routes them where you already work. You don't build the pipeline, we did.

  • Yes. The Knowledge Base has 5+ years of history, licensed by the months you need. Tripwire starts from the day you subscribe, with backfill available separately.

  • The Knowledge Base is a corpus license priced by months of history. Tripwire is usage-tiered by data volume and channel count. Comments, foreign language, and alternate geographies are available as add-ins.

  • Yes. Curated, pre-filtered transcripts make high-signal context and training data, and you can query the feed directly from Claude or ChatGPT over MCP. Licensing terms for training are set per contract.

Set Up a Watchlist for Your Agents

See sample data in 15 minutes. Production feed live in a week.

Schema versioned. Replay supported. Cancel any time.