🎯 YouTube Creator Email & Sponsor Finder

Turn YouTube channels into outreach-ready creator leads. Start with channel URLs, search by niche, or provide example creators to discover lookalikes — then collect public business contacts, audience metrics, recent sponsor signals, and clear lead-priority scores in one structured dataset.

Unofficial tool: This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google. It extracts only information creators make publicly available.

💡 Why this Actor

• 📇 Outreach-ready contacts — public emails, phones, websites, and 10+ social profiles in one structured dataset
• 🧭 Three discovery modes — enrich channels you already know, search by niche, or find lookalikes of creators you admire
• 🎯 Built-in lead scoring — Sponsor Readiness and Contact Priority scores from 0 to 100 to rank who to reach first
• 🤝 Sponsor intelligence — surface sponsor brands, sponsored-video counts, and affiliate signals before you pitch
• ✅ Verified, evidenced contacts — email-domain validation, confidence scores, and the exact page each contact came from
• 🛟 Keeps partial data — slow or private pages never discard a creator; useful enrichment is still retained

📸 Sample output

A real run's output — exportable to JSON, CSV, or Excel.

✨ What you get

Area	Data returned
✉️ Contacts	Public emails, phones, websites, email role, validation, confidence, and exact evidence URL
📱 Socials	Instagram, X/Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, GitHub, Discord, Telegram, Twitch, and WhatsApp
📊 Channel metrics	Subscribers, total views, video count, country, verification, joined date, and keywords
🎬 Recent activity	Latest upload, average recent views, view rate, upload frequency, and analyzed video titles
🤝 Sponsor intelligence	Sponsor brands, sponsored-video count, affiliate signals, latest sponsorship, and readiness score
🎯 Lead scoring	sponsorReadinessScore and contactPriorityScore, each from 0 to 100
🔍 Discovery context	Source keyword, example channel, search rank, and original input

The Actor can also normalize addresses written as name [at] company [dot] com, validate email domains, inspect public pinned comments, and preserve the page where every primary contact was found.

🚀 Quick start

1. Choose a discovery mode

• 🔗 Enrich channels I already know — paste channel URLs, @handles, channel IDs, or video URLs.
• 🔍 Discover creators by niche — enter topics such as personal finance or home fitness.
• 🧬 Find similar creators — provide example channels and let the Actor build focused lookalike searches.

2. Set your filters

Filter by subscribers, recent views, upload activity, contact availability, or Sponsor Readiness Score. Leave a numeric filter at 0 when you do not want to apply it.

3. Run and export

Open the Output tab while the Actor runs. Download the finished results as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or access them through the Apify API.

🧪 Ready-to-use examples

🔗 Enrich known channels

{
  "scrapeType": "channelContacts",
  "channels": [
    "@mkbhd",
    "https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium",
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
  ],
  "recentVideosToScan": 8,
  "scanPinnedComment": true,
  "scanWebsites": true,
  "contactFilter": "allChannels"
}

🔍 Build an email-ready niche list

{
  "scrapeType": "keywordDiscovery",
  "searchQueries": [
    "personal finance",
    "home fitness",
    "productivity apps"
  ],
  "maxChannelsPerQuery": 30,
  "maxResults": 50,
  "minSubscribers": 5000,
  "maxSubscribers": 250000,
  "activeWithinDays": 90,
  "contactFilter": "emailOnly"
}

🧬 Find sponsor-friendly lookalikes

{
  "scrapeType": "lookalikeDiscovery",
  "seedChannels": ["@mkbhd", "@LinusTechTips"],
  "lookalikeQueriesPerSeed": 3,
  "maxResults": 50,
  "minSponsorReadinessScore": 40,
  "recentVideosToScan": 5
}

⚡ Fast 50-creator preset

Use this configuration when speed matters more than deep historical coverage:

{
  "scrapeType": "keywordDiscovery",
  "searchQueries": [
    "tech reviews",
    "personal finance",
    "fitness coaching",
    "travel tips",
    "digital marketing"
  ],
  "maxChannelsPerQuery": 12,
  "maxResults": 50,
  "recentVideosToScan": 3,
  "maxExternalLinks": 6,
  "maxWebsitePages": 4,
  "videoEnrichmentTimeoutSecs": 22,
  "websiteScanTimeoutSecs": 10,
  "maxConcurrency": 50,
  "maxRetries": 2,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 15
}

Cloud response time varies with YouTube and linked websites. In testing, the fast preset processed 50 creators in roughly 50–55 seconds with 4 GB memory while retaining partial enrichment when an external page was slow.

📦 Example result

{
  "channelId": "UC...",
  "channelName": "Example Creator",
  "channelHandle": "@example",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@example",
  "subscriberCount": 184000,
  "avgRecentViews": 52000,
  "viewRatePercent": 28.26,
  "primaryEmail": "partnerships@example.com",
  "primaryEmailRole": "partnerships",
  "primaryEmailValidation": "valid_domain",
  "primaryEmailConfidence": 95,
  "primaryEmailSourceType": "video_description",
  "primaryEmailSourceUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...",
  "emails": ["partnerships@example.com"],
  "websiteUrl": "https://example.com",
  "instagramUrl": "https://instagram.com/example",
  "latestVideoDate": "2026-07-18",
  "uploadFrequencyPerMonth": 5.2,
  "sponsoredVideosFound": 4,
  "sponsorBrands": ["Example Brand"],
  "sponsorReadinessScore": 86,
  "contactPriorityScore": 90,
  "contactEnrichmentStatus": "completed",
  "videoEnrichmentStatus": "completed",
  "status": "success"
}

🗂️ Output views

The Output tab is organized into four practical tables:

• 🎯 Leads — the best fields for qualification and CRM import.
• ✉️ Contacts — emails, validation, evidence URLs, phones, websites, and social profiles.
• 🤝 Sponsor intelligence — activity, recent views, sponsor history, brands, and scores.
• 📺 Channel details — complete channel metadata and discovery context.

🚦 Understanding enrichment statuses

Some public pages may be unavailable or respond slowly. The Actor keeps useful partial data instead of discarding the whole creator.

Status	Meaning
completed	The requested enrichment finished within its time budget
partial	Some video data was collected before the deadline
timed_out	Website scanning reached its budget; contacts found so far were retained
no_links	The creator did not publish an external destination to inspect
no_videos	No recent public videos were available for analysis
failed	That enrichment stage failed; the base channel record can still be saved

🔌 Run through the API

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/trakk~youtube-channel-email-sponsor-leads/runs?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "scrapeType": "keywordDiscovery",
    "searchQueries": ["B2B SaaS creators"],
    "maxResults": 25
  }'

Replace YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN with an Apify token stored securely in your environment. Do not commit tokens to source control.

❓ FAQ

Does the Actor reveal YouTube's protected business email?

No. If YouTube places an address behind sign-in or verification, hasHiddenEmail is set to true, but the protected address is not bypassed or revealed. The Actor can still find other public contacts published by the creator.

What does email validation mean?

Validation checks whether the domain is configured to receive email and whether it appears disposable. It cannot guarantee that a specific mailbox exists or will accept a message.

Why can a contact or sponsor field be empty?

The creator may not publish that information, the relevant page may be private, or an external site may exceed its scan budget. Check the enrichment status and evidence fields for context.

Can I export directly to a CRM?

Yes. Download the Leads or Contacts view as CSV/Excel, or consume the default dataset through the Apify API and integrations.

🛡️ Responsible use

Use public contact information for legitimate, relevant outreach. Follow applicable privacy and anti-spam laws, respect opt-out requests, and avoid unsolicited bulk messaging.