With Ask YouTube, viewers now ask questions instead of typing keywords — and YouTube's AI picks the videos that answer them. Enter your niche and get ~50 real viewer prompts — grounded in the actual top-performing videos in your space — so you can make the videos YouTube's AI will surface.
Ask YouTube is YouTube's conversational search: instead of typing keywords, viewers tap "Ask" in the search bar and ask a question in plain language, then have a back-and-forth conversation to find the right videos. YouTube began the experiment on desktop and, as of August 2026, is rolling it out to the mobile app and TV — currently for signed-in viewers in the US, in English, with more countries and languages promised. Alongside it, YouTube also lets viewers build a custom Home feed by describing what they want. Together these are the biggest shift in YouTube discovery in years: prompt-led, not keyword-led.
When a viewer asks a question, YouTube's AI has to understand what your video answers — from your title, description, chapters and what you actually say in the video — not just match a keyword in the title. The channels that win will be the ones whose packaging and content clearly answer the questions real viewers ask. This free tool maps those prompts for your niche, using the actual top-performing videos in your space as evidence — not a generic keyword list.
Once you know the prompts, VideoCore turns each one into a full video plan: title, thumbnail brief, script and Shorts — and its AI Feed Readiness Score checks every video on your channel against the prompts it should be answering, across the five things an answer engine reads: topic clarity, title–intent match, description & metadata, chapters and transcript alignment.