Ads Youtube

Analyzes YouTube advertising campaigns across all major formats including skippable in-stream, bumpers, Shorts, Demand Gen, and Connected TV. Pulls data from Google Ads exports and runs it against YouTube-specific benchmarks, creative quality checks, and audience targeting best practices. Covers the VAC to Demand Gen migration completed in April 2026, flags deprecated campaign types, and evaluates hook effectiveness in the first 5 seconds using Google's ABCD framework. The CTV section is solid given it's now 75% of YouTube ad spend, though note that Floodlight conversion tracking doesn't work on CTV devices. Useful when you need a structured audit beyond generic video ad advice, especially for accounts running multiple campaign types that need format-specific recommendations.

skills.sh installs: 4K
GitHub stars: 10.9K
last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add agricidaniel/claude-ads --skill ads-youtube --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

YouTube Ads Audit

Procedure

Read the main ads operating contract and thinking framework.
Collect objective, conversion definition, account and campaign age, geography, date window, timezone, currency, spend, targets, and available data sources.
Read ads/references/youtube-audit.md (resolve it from the plugin root, the directory that holds ads/ and skills/, or from the skills directory in a standalone install) and only the relevant shared measurement, benchmark, creative, automation, policy, and scoring references.
Normalize inputs and retain lineage to each export, screenshot, API result, or manual value.
Evaluate applicable controls covering conversion and engagement measurement, campaign type, channel controls, formats, hooks, audiences, brand safety, bidding, and reporting.
Separate observations, diagnoses, recommendations, opportunities, and proposed mutations. Mark uncertainty and contradictions.
Return schema-valid findings to the conductor. Do not calculate final scores in the prompt or write a shared result file.
Render a platform report only from the validated JSON run bundle.