Viral Keyword Finder
Surfaced from real search demand.
Paste any YouTube, TikTok or Shorts link and get benchmarks, retention curves, and rewrites — grounded in your actual footage.
Analyze a video freeLearn why this matters+
The difference between a video that dies at 200 views and one that hits 100K almost always lives in the first 3 seconds and the visual promise.
Getting this input right compounds — every video afterwards inherits the improvement.
- ×Writing for yourself instead of the scrolling viewer.
- ×Being clever when you should be clear.
- ×Burying the promise past the 3-second mark.
- ×Copying a format without understanding why it worked.
- ×Optimizing only one variable (title OR thumbnail OR hook) instead of the whole triangle.
- ✓Viral keywords are not SEO keywords: on YouTube and TikTok a keyword only works if it also survives as a spoken hook, an on-screen title and a thumbnail line.
- ✓Work from one seed topic at a time — 15 tight variations beat 100 loose ones.
- ✓Use the intent grouping: commercial keywords convert, informational ones build the library that ranks around them.
- ✓Built for short-form and YouTube discovery, not e-commerce SEO — ignore keyword-difficulty scores designed for web pages.
- →Read the output out loud. If you stumble, the viewer will too.
- →Save the best 3 outputs and rotate them across the next 3 posts to A/B in the wild.
- →Pair every improvement with a retention benchmark — improvement without measurement is a guess.
- →Run the same input through 2 different tools (title studio + hook rewriter) and compare — the overlaps are gold.
Paste any video link into the full analyzer and get scoring grounded in your actual footage — hooks, retention curves, and thumbnail CTR.
Open live analyzerHow this score is calculated+
- ·Scores blend viral-pattern models trained on 2.4M+ analyzed videos with live 2026 platform benchmarks.
- ·Every metric maps to a real signal: retention curve, click-through, curiosity tension, or pattern-interrupt strength.
- ·No output is generic filler — the model is prompted to justify every number with a concrete psychological driver.
- ·Nothing is stored. Your input is never used to train models or shown to anyone else.
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Frequently asked questions
What makes a keyword 'viral'?+
High search intent + low creator competition + clear emotional pull. We score all three.
How is this different from a normal SEO keyword tool?+
Normal keyword tools rank terms for web pages. A creator keyword also has to work spoken out loud in the first three seconds, on a thumbnail, and in a title — so every suggestion here is judged on how it reads in a video, not just how often it is typed into a search bar.
Do the keywords work for TikTok as well as YouTube?+
Yes. The finder is tuned on short-form and YouTube discovery behavior; the intent groups are the same, but commercial-intent terms usually convert better on YouTube and curiosity-led terms travel further on TikTok.