YouTube Ads Scraper for sponsored videos

A youtube ads scraper for sponsored videos: give a YouTube video link and get the likely sponsors detected from its description and paid-promotion disclosure. Export JSON, CSV or Excel.

$22.97per 1,000 ads on paid plans, $42.30 on the free plan

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Collects: Ads
Modes: 1

Overview

A creator sponsorship is a deal between a brand and a channel. Its public trace is usually in the video itself: a "sponsored by" line in the description, a discount link, a paid-promotion label. This tool reads those traces and names the likely sponsor.

What it does

You give it video links. For each video it reads the description, the links in it and the paid-promotion disclosure. When it finds a brand that looks like a sponsor, it returns a row with the brand's name, the landing link if there is one, the quotes it based its answer on and a confidence level.

Most videos have one sponsor or none. A video without a sponsor returns no row and costs nothing.

Why "likely"

The tool infers sponsors from what the creator wrote. It cannot see private deals, and a sponsor that is only mentioned out loud in the video is not found. So read the result as strong evidence, not a complete list, and use the quotes to check any row that matters.

Who uses it

Brand teams who want to know which channels their competitors pay. Agencies who plan creator campaigns and want to see who already works with whom. Researchers who study how sponsorship spreads across a category.

On Apify

Paste the video links, set a maximum per video and start the run. The free plan returns up to 100 results per run. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel. To gather the video links of a channel first, use .

What it collects

YouTube Ads Scraper

$22.97 per 1,000 adsAbout $42.30 per 1,000 ads on Apify's free plan, from $22.97 per 1,000 on paid plans.

Input	Type	Example
Video links requiredFull YouTube video links, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Fayfx2NUM. Shorts and youtu.be links also work.	List	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Fayfx2NUM
Max itemsMaximum number of results to collect.	Number	10

Sample output: YouTube Ads Scraper

{
  "advertiser": {
    "name": "Example Brand"
  },
  "collectedAt": "2026-11-11T12:00:00Z",
  "details": {
    "youtube": {
      "confidence": "medium",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "source": "description",
          "text": "This video is sponsored by Example Brand, shown for illustration."
        }
      ],
      "videoId": "5_Fayfx2NUM"
    }
  },
  "id": "5_Fayfx2NUM:examplebrand",
  "input": {
    "maxItems": 10,
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Fayfx2NUM"
  },
  "landingUrl": null,
  "platform": "youtube",
  "status": "ok",
  "text": "Sponsored by Example Brand.",
  "type": "ad",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Fayfx2NUM"
}

Pricing

You pay per result, through your Apify account. Apify's free plan allows up to 100 items per run and 20 runs per day. The Store page always shows the current price.

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What people use it for

See which brands sponsor the top channels in your niche
Check how often a competitor buys creator sponsorships
Build a list of past sponsors before you pitch a channel

Questions

Does it detect ads YouTube plays before a video?

No. It finds sponsors named by the creator: in the description, its links and the paid-promotion label. Pre-roll and other ads YouTube inserts are not covered.

What does the evidence look like?

Quotes from the video's description or disclosure that name the sponsor, plus the sponsor's landing link when there is one.

Can I check a whole channel?

Collect the channel's video links first with the YouTube tool's Channel videos mode, then paste them here.

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