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Best New Data Vendor 2025Social Video Intelligence

AI That Watches YouTube For You.

Effortlessly extract transcripts, sentiment, speaker context, brand mentions, topics, sponsorships, and more from millions of YouTube videos

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NDJSON
{
  "event_id": "evt_8x2k",
  "channel": "Marques Brownlee",
  "video": "iPhone 17 Pro Review",
  "ts": "00:04:12",
  "speaker": "MKBHD",
  "entities": [
    { "type": "brand",   "name": "Apple" },
    { "type": "product", "name": "iPhone 17 Pro" }
  ],
  "sentiment": 0.74,
  "topics": ["camera", "battery"],
  "published_at": "2026-05-21T14:02Z"
}

143K+ channels indexed

MrBeastMKBHDJoe RoganLex FridmanLinus Tech TipsAustin EvansCNBCYahoo FinancePlanet MoneyOpenAI
Use Cases

See Who's Already Talking About You

The only feed that structures YouTube into curated, queryable, routable, actionable data for both managers and agents — 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<15m
  • 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 sentimetn for any topic, vertical, or theme. Surface the channels, creators, and videos driving conversation — week over week.

  • channels indexed143K+
  • of history5+ yrs
  • trend digestWeekly
The Difference

Way More Than Just A Scraper.

Cheap YouTube scrapers hand you a firehose and tell you to figure it out. Babbl curates your watchlist — the channels, entities, and keywords worth tracking — then extracts the structured signals and routes them where you already work.

Babbl Tripwire
Babbl

Entity-resolved feed. Production-ready.

  • 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.
  • <15 minutes from publish to feed.
  • S3, REST, Snowflake, MCP, webhooks. Ready to route.
  • 99.9% uptime. Versioned schema. Replay supported.
BrightData, Apify & Others

Raw transcripts, keyword search, manual cleanup.

  • 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

Worlds Most Comprehensive YouTube Dataset.

Five years of transcripts, entity extraction, and speaker attribution. Refreshed every 15 minutes.

  • 143K+channels indexed
  • 25K+tracked public figures
  • 5+ yrsof historical depth
  • <15 minpublish → feed latency
Delivery

Built for All Agents, Models, and Workflows.

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

  • Backfills up to 5 years of history on day one.
  • Schema versioned. Breaking changes never silent.
  • Built with agentic workflows in mind.
S3
Amazon S3

NDJSON drops on your schedule.

API
REST API

Query the live feed by entity or topic.

SF
Snowflake

Native share. No ETL required.

MCP
Agent Skill / MCP

Query Tripwire from Claude or ChatGPT.

Webhook

Push events to Slack, Linear, or your tools.

Custom

We integrate with your stack on request.

Pricing

Priced For Data Teams.

"The most valuable commentary now happens in podcast interviews and product reviews, not earnings calls" -hedge fund customer

YouTube Tripwire
Starting at
$895/ mo

Volume scales with tracked entities, refresh cadence, and delivery footprint.

Book a Demo

Monthly contracts. Schema versioning and replay included.

What's included
  • Expert curation of channels, entities & keywords worth tracking
  • Entity-resolved feed (brand, product, person, topic)
  • Speaker-level attribution with timestamps
  • <15-minute publish-to-feed latency
  • Up to 5 years of historical backfill
  • S3, REST, Snowflake, MCP & webhook delivery
  • Slack alerts on tracked entities
  • Schema versioning, replay, dedicated support

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.

  • <15 minutes from a video being published to it appearing in your feed, on Growth tier and above. Starter refreshes daily.

  • Yes. Upload a list of brands, products, executives, channels, or topics — we resolve them to canonical IDs and track them across the full corpus.

  • Scrapers give you raw transcripts. Tripwire 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. Up to 5 years of backfill on Growth and Scale. Custom tiers can go further on request.

  • Speaker-level attribution is verified against face + voice models. Entity resolution runs through canonical IDs (Wikidata + our own ontology). We publish a quality score on every event and let you filter on it.

  • On Custom we offer licensing terms for AI training corpora, with full audit logs, DMCA workflows, and creator-level opt-out support.

Set Up A Feed For Your Watchlist.

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

Schema versioned. Replay supported. Cancel any time.