5 YouTube channels for AI marketing, and the exact video to start on

Pick one, not five

Watching all five is how nothing happens. Find the line below that sounds most like your job and start there. The rest will still be here next month.

Marketing Against the Grain

The channel · 98.7K subscribers · start here: Steal My AI Marketing System (One Prompt Builds It) · 19 minutes 57 · free

Two marketing leaders talking about how they structure AI around marketing work, rather than which tool launched this week. The starting video builds the thing most people skip: a set of context files about your goals, customers, competitors and positioning that every other prompt then reads from. Once that exists, everything you ask gets better without you writing better prompts.

1. 2:20 · The intelligence layer. The idea the whole video rests on. Your AI is only as good as what it knows about your business.
2. 2:50 · The six context files. Goals, ICP, competitors, positioning, team, execs. Write these once, use them forever.
3. 4:20 · The prompt that builds it. The practical bit. There is a version of this adapted for you at the bottom of this guide.
4. 14:45 · How he runs his day. A daily priority list assembled from goals, team, email and Slack. The most stealable routine in the video.

You walk out with: a folder of context files that makes every future prompt sharper.

Brock Mesarich

The channel · 142K subscribers · start here: Master Claude for Marketing in 72 Minutes (FULL COURSE) · 1 hour 12 · free

The most complete free Claude for marketing course I have found. It is a real course, not a tour: you build voice skills, a repurposing skill, a product-to-ad skill, and by the end you have a set of saved instructions that do your recurring work rather than a transcript of someone else doing theirs.

1. 3:17 · Set up your workspace. CLAUDE.md and memory. Do this before anything else in the video.
2. 11:29 · Your four content voice skills. The highest-value 6 minutes in the whole course if you write anything publicly.
3. 17:12 · The repurposing skill. One piece of content into many, without it sounding recycled.
4. 23:10 · Images and video. Generating visuals with Higgsfield from inside the workflow.
5. 34:17 · Product to ad. A product photo becomes a UGC-style video ad. If you sell anything physical, start at this timestamp.

You walk out with: four or five saved skills that survive past the video.

Zubair Trabzada

The channel · 163K subscribers · start here: I Built An Entire AI Marketing Team With Claude Code In 16 Minutes · 16 minutes 51 · free

Sixteen minutes that end in a formatted PDF marketing audit for a real local business. If you freelance, run an agency, or want a reason for a first conversation with a prospect, this is the highest leverage video on the list, because the output is something you can hand to someone.

1. 0:57 · The finished audit first. He shows the PDF before building it, so you know whether the rest is worth your time.
2. 4:43 · Running it on a local business. A real example rather than a toy one.
3. 6:17 · The skills walkthrough. How each part of the audit is a separate saved instruction. This is the transferable idea.
4. 12:20 · The report itself. Worth watching properly, because it sets the bar for what your own output should look like.

You walk out with: an audit you can run on a prospect before you ever speak to them.

Ahrefs

The channel · 678K subscribers · start here: Learn 80% of AEO in 19 Minutes · 18 minutes 56 · free

More and more people ask an AI assistant instead of searching, and the assistant picks a handful of sources to cite. AEO is the practice of being one of them. This video explains how that selection actually works, which is a genuinely different problem from ranking on a results page, and almost nobody is teaching it properly yet.

You walk out with: an understanding of why an assistant cites one page over another, and what to change on yours.

Miko

The channel · 7.62K subscribers · start here: How to Make Viral AI UGC Ads in 2026 (Full Breakdown) · 15 minutes 27 · free

The smallest channel on this list by a long way, and the most practical if your job is ads. A full breakdown of making UGC-style video ads that do not look generated: the script, the character, the delivery, and the small imperfections that stop it reading as AI. Fifteen minutes, no filler.

You walk out with: the method for one ad you could shoot tonight without a creator, a camera or a studio.

The context files, adapted

The single idea worth taking from video one. Open Claude, start a project, and paste this. It interviews you, then writes the files.

I want you to build the context files that everything else I ask you about marketing will read from. Interview me first, then write them.

Ask me no more than eight questions in total, one at a time, covering: what the business sells and to whom, what a good month looks like in numbers, who the ideal customer is and what they are actually trying to solve, who we lose deals to and why, what we say about ourselves and what customers say back, and which channels we actually use today.

Then write me five short documents: goals, ideal customer, competitors, positioning, and channels. Keep each one under 400 words, write in plain sentences rather than bullet fragments, and mark anything you inferred rather than heard from me so I can correct it.

Finally, tell me which single file is weakest based on what I gave you, and what I would need to find out to fix it.

Check whether an assistant would cite you

The practical version of video four, runnable in ten minutes on a page you already have.

Here is a page from my website: [paste the URL and the full page text].

Act as an AI assistant deciding whether to cite this page when someone asks about [the topic this page covers]. Work through it properly rather than giving me a score.

First, write the five questions a real person would actually type or say about this topic, phrased the way people talk rather than the way keywords look.

Then, for each question, tell me whether this page answers it directly, partly, or not at all, and quote the exact sentence you would have cited if you were citing it. If there is no such sentence, say so plainly.

Finally, give me a rewrite plan: the specific lines to add, where to put them, and what to change about the page title, the first paragraph and the headings so the answer is findable in the first screen rather than buried halfway down.

How to actually use a list like this

Five channels is more than anyone watches. The version of this that works is one video, this week, followed by building the thing it showed you, even badly. The second video only helps once the first one has cost you an evening of actual work.

If you only ever open one, make it Brock Mesarich's course. It is the longest, and it is the one where you finish with saved skills rather than notes.