A guide for reviewing YouTube advertising campaigns, including skippable videos, non-skippable videos, six-second bumper ads, Shorts, and Demand Gen campaigns. It examines the ads, audiences, campaign setup, and measurement.

Analyze campaign settings, video creative quality, audience targeting, skip and view behavior, bidding, frequency limits, calls to action, and measurement; then produce a scored findings report.

It brings YouTube-specific checks and benchmarks into one review, so video campaigns can be assessed consistently. It also focuses attention on the opening seconds, targeting, and tracking results.

ads-youtube — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by naveedharri

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add naveedharri/benai-skills --skill ads-youtube

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naveedharri/benai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ads, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/ads-youtube/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/ads-youtube)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/ads-youtube"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/ads-youtube/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/ads-youtube"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/ads-youtube.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,332 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

high Anti-Refusal · line 104
Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.

How audits are shown

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00079	$0.01332
Opus 5	$0.00039	$0.00666
Sonnet 5	$0.00016	$0.00266
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00133

Measured 12d ago against content hash f099bd975970, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ads-youtube scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

ads-youtube — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
ads-youtube — 88% identical, 27 lines differ

plugins/ads/skills/ads-youtube/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Ads Analysis

Process

Collect YouTube Ads data (Google Ads export filtered to Video campaigns)
Read ads/references/google-audit.md for YouTube-relevant checks
Read ads/references/platform-specs.md for video specifications
Read ads/references/benchmarks.md for YouTube benchmarks
Read ads/references/scoring-system.md for health score algorithm
Evaluate campaign setup, creative quality, targeting, and measurement
Generate YouTube-specific findings report with health score

Campaign Types Assessment

Skippable In-Stream (TrueView)

Length: 12s minimum, 15-30s recommended (can be longer)
Bidding: Target CPV or Target CPA
Skip rate benchmark: 65-80% is normal
View rate: ≥15% is good
Evaluate: hook quality in first 5 seconds, CTA card usage

Non-Skippable In-Stream

Length: up to 60s (expanded 2025; previously 15s/20s)
Bidding: Target CPM
Best for: brand awareness, reach campaigns
Evaluate: message completeness, frequency capping, optimal length testing

Bumper Ads

Length: exactly 6s (non-skippable)
Bidding: Target CPM
Best for: reach extension, brand reinforcement
Evaluate: single-message focus, brand visibility throughout

YouTube Shorts Ads

Format: vertical 9:16 (1080x1920)
Length: up to 60s
Best for: younger demographics, mobile-first
Evaluate: native feel (not repurposed horizontal), sound-on optimization

Demand Gen (replaces Discovery)

Placements: YouTube Home Feed, Watch Next, Discover, Gmail
Formats: image + video carousel, product feeds
Evaluate: creative diversity, product feed quality, audience signals

Creative Quality Assessment

Hook Analysis (First 5 Seconds)

Does the video capture attention immediately?
Brand mention within first 5 seconds (recommended for awareness)
Problem/benefit statement upfront (recommended for action campaigns)
No slow intros, title cards, or logos-only openings

Production Quality

Audio quality: clear, professional, background music appropriate
Visual quality: HD minimum (1080p), proper lighting
Subtitles/captions: present (85% of Facebook video watched muted, ~30% on YouTube)
End screen: CTA, subscribe button, related video cards

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

12d ago First seen · 145 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A f099bd975970

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ads-youtube is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,332 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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