AI and automation strategist May Zhan built her own YouTube research tool with Claude Code. Only after building it did she find out vidIQ already existed. So May and Jab put them side by side.

Most owners research content the same way. Open YouTube, type a keyword, and end up ninety tabs deep with nothing written down. In this episode of May Contain Jab: The Owner's Edge, May and Jab show a better way to find out what your audience actually wants to watch.

In this episode, they explain:

◼️ Why the best content ideas are sitting in someone else's comment section ◼️ The tool May built that scans 14 days of YouTube trends in AI and marketing ◼️ Why trending content dies fast, and evergreen content pays out for years ◼️ How to find the gap instead of fighting the biggest channel for the same spot ◼️ What vidIQ shows you, live, and where a homemade tool could beat it ◼️ The one word in a title that beat its channel's average by 60x ◼️ Why an automation specialist tells you to do it by hand first

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:36 The Problem: Finding What To Post Without Endless Scrolling
01:58 Inside The Tool May Built With Claude Code 02:30 The AI Analyst That Suggests Your Next Video
04:46 Trending vs Evergreen: Which Content Lasts?
07:27 How Much Research Time Does AI Save?
08:11 From 50 Pound Textbooks To AI Research
12:34 Reading The Comments: Where The Real Ideas Live
14:24 Spotting The Gap Nobody Has Filled
15:56 Don't Compete. Fill What's Missing.
17:24 vidIQ Live Demo: Is It Worth It? 19:28 Outlier Videos: What 58x Performance Looks Like
21:22 The One Word That Makes People Click
24:40 Thumbnails That Tell A Whole Story 25:54 Start With The Process, Then Automate

Your Challenge: Before you automate your content research, do it by hand once. Pick one topic your customers care about. Search it on YouTube, open the top five videos and write down every question in the comments. That list is your next three pieces of content, and it shows you exactly which step is worth automating.

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Get in touch: Email: mayandjab@maycontainjab.com Website: maycontainjab.com May Zhan on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/may-zhan Jab Siwela on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jab-siwela

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