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Topic Ideas

Find, research and save video ideas, follow trends and competitors, and send the best idea to Script.

Open Topic Ideas in the Studio

#The five tabs

TabUse it to
IdeasGenerate and save video ideas for your niche.
TrendingExplore current trending topics.
My interestsBuild an interest profile so suggestions fit you.
Topic Gap FinderResearch what YouTube already covers and find openings.
CompetitorsTrack competitor channels and get alerts on their uploads.

#Finding and saving ideas

  1. Enter your niche or a topic and search for ideas.
  2. Read the research and signals for each idea.
  3. Save the promising ones; saved ideas stay in the Ideas tab.
  4. Open an idea in Script when you are ready to write it.

Idea research runs in the background. You can leave the page; results appear when it finishes.

#Topic Gap Finder

The Gap Finder shows what the research discovered, what it actually covers, topics worth developing and specific openings in the coverage.

Analyze with Gemini

  1. Fill in the research brief: topic, working title, research scope and your direction.
  2. Copy the ready-made prompt into Gemini (with Deep Research or Google Search enabled) and let it research YouTube.
  3. Paste Gemini's answer back into Flow, upload a .json / .txt / .md file, or click + Add Another Response Part if Gemini split a long response across multiple parts.
  4. Click Analyze & Extract Gaps — Flow merges multi-part responses, repairs truncated JSON or Markdown automatically, and turns the findings into topic openings you can send straight to Script.

#Competitor channels and alerts

Add competitor tracks a channel. Alerts tell you about new uploads, fast-growing videos and view milestones. Use Pause alerts, Enable alerts, Edit or Remove on each channel. From a competitor's video you can start an original outline based on it (never a copy).

Competitor and YouTube research use a YouTube Data API key. Add yours in AI providers.