VidIQ alternative for business.
YLG.ai is a YouTube strategy platform for business owners. It helps you research demand, plan stronger videos, validate the angle before filming, and improve performance after publish.
Move from broad creator-growth ideas toward videos that make the offer easier to understand, trust, and buy.
Proof that serious buyers can recognize fast.
Built by Scott Bartnick — 2x Inc. 5000 founder and Forbes Top Entrepreneur — with a platform designed for teams using YouTube as a real growth channel.
Research demand, plan better videos, and turn YouTube into a lead source.
YLG.ai gives business owners one workflow for research, planning, validation, optimization, and tracking so the team can choose stronger videos before production time gets spent.
Research real demand
Use keyword research, demand data, and gap analysis to see what buyers already want.
Plan before you film
Turn that demand into a sharper strategy, better topics, hooks, and outlines before production starts.
Package the idea
Sharpen the angle with competitor context, creative direction, and click-worthy packaging before launch.
Optimize and track
Handle SEO, analytics, performance tracking, and ongoing recommendations from the same system.
Best for teams using YouTube to support pipeline, trust, and revenue conversations.
YLG.ai is strongest when YouTube is being treated like a business growth channel rather than a creator hobby or reach game.
Less likely to be a fit if creator-growth tooling is your main priority.
If your immediate need is coaching, subscriber growth tactics, or creator-style optimization workflows, VidIQ may still feel closer to what you want.
The workflow moves from creator optimization to business planning.
The real switch happens when the team stops asking how to grow a channel faster and starts asking which videos are most likely to attract the right buyers.
Choose higher-value topics
Put buyer questions and commercial relevance ahead of generic creator-growth opportunities.
Read the market faster
Use competitor movement to see where the category is crowded, where openings remain, and where your brand can win attention with a sharper angle.
Brief production with confidence
Make it easier for leadership and marketing to align on why the next video deserves time and spend.
VidIQ is built for creator growth. YLG.ai is built for business outcomes.
That does not make VidIQ a bad product. It means the product is solving a different problem. If your company needs YouTube to produce business value, the comparison should be made through that lens.
Use YouTube to support pipeline, trust, and revenue conversations instead of chasing creator-style growth alone.
Choose stronger topics before the team spends time scripting, filming, and polishing weak bets.
Compare plans and move into checkout without a demo detour when the fit is already clear.
Grow channel reach, optimize performance, and improve creator-style momentum.
Choose videos that are more likely to attract qualified buyers and strengthen the business pipeline story.
How do we improve channel growth and optimize what is already being published?
What should we publish next if YouTube needs to support trust, demand, and revenue conversations?
Review channel performance and creator-style trends.
Find gaps, pressure points, and commercially useful openings worth turning into content.
Views, subscribers, CTR, and channel momentum.
Better topic selection, stronger commercial alignment, and a clearer path from content to qualified opportunity.
Creators and teams optimizing for audience growth.
Business owners, agencies, and operators using YouTube as a demand channel.
Our founding team has worked with brands and organizations including
Hands-on experience across strategy, marketing, and digital growth.
Pick the plan that matches your team.
Transparent pricing, fast checkout, and a 20-day refund window so you can compare the options and start without a sales-process detour.
Start, pressure-test the fit quickly, and use the refund window if your team decides it is not the right match.
Best if you need a lean, owner-led starting system.
Billed monthly
Recommended for serious growth teams using YouTube for pipeline.
Billed monthly
For teams that want maximum coverage and hands-on strategic support.
Billed monthly
Who should still choose VidIQ?
VidIQ still makes sense for creator-led channels focused on views, subscribers, coaching, and optimization around audience growth. If your main goal is creator performance, that workflow can be a reasonable fit. If your goal is deciding what to publish so YouTube supports demand and revenue, YLG.ai is built for that job more directly.
Why would a business pay more than VidIQ?
Because the cost of filming the wrong topic is usually far higher than the software gap. YLG.ai is designed to help teams avoid weak bets, find stronger commercial topics, and create a clearer planning system before production time and budget are spent.
Can YLG.ai replace creator-growth dashboards?
Not completely, and it is not trying to. YLG.ai is strongest at the upstream decisions that matter most for a business: what buyers care about, where competitors are creating pressure, and which videos deserve the next slot in your publishing queue.
What happens after we buy?
You choose a plan, get access quickly, set up your channel and competitor set, and start building a more focused video pipeline. On the plans that include it, you also get setup support so the team can move faster instead of losing momentum after purchase.
If YouTube needs to help revenue, choose the platform built for that job.
You do not need another layer of creator-growth ambiguity if the business question is already clear. If your team wants stronger topic decisions, better competitor context, and a faster path from planning to publishable opportunities, this is the comparison that matters.