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YouTube Ads MCP server for AI agents

Ask Claude or ChatGPT which YouTube ads get watched and which ones convert.

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YouTube Ads MCP

Ask about views, view rate and watch time in Claude, ChatGPT or any AI agent, from live YouTube Ads data.

What is the YouTube Ads MCP server?

Lemonado's YouTube Ads MCP server gives Claude, ChatGPT and other AI apps your YouTube ad results. Ask about views, view rate and conversions, and compare video ads with search and social in one question.

  • Your whole YouTube Ads account

    Video campaigns and ads, ready to ask about.

  • Always today's numbers

    Quartile completion, synced from YouTube Ads automatically, so answers use today's numbers.

  • Connect all your tools

    Questions like "YouTube or Meta video?" use YouTube Ads and Google Ads, Meta Ads at once.

Connecting takes minutes.

  1. 1

    Connect YouTube Ads

    Sign in to YouTube Ads in Lemonado.

  2. 2

    Copy the server URL

    Turn on external access and copy one URL.

  3. 3

    Ask in Claude

    Add the URL to Claude and ask away.

Ask it anything.

Claude reads your YouTube Ads numbers, explains what moved and turns the answer into an artifact you can share.

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Which video ads get watched past 50% and still drive conversions?

2 of 9 do. Both are under 30 seconds and show the price before the skip button.

Source: YouTube Ads

Let Lemonado check YouTube Ads for you.

Copy one of these into Lemonado and it runs on a schedule.

  • YouTube Ads logo

    Every Monday, rank last week's YouTube ads by view rate and cost per conversion.

    Weekly video report

Why Lemonado?

  • Your whole stack in one connection

    Google, Meta, GA4, TikTok and 3,000+ more tools, in every AI app.

  • No API keys or servers

    Sign in once. Nothing to install, host or keep alive.

  • Scoped to each client

    Each connection only reaches the clients you allow. Built for agencies.

  • Actions with guardrails

    Set each action to Off, Ask or Approve. Nothing runs that you haven't allowed.

Reading this as an AI agent?

Everything an agent needs to set this up, in plain text. Paste this page's link into your AI app and ask it to connect you, or copy the block.

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# Lemonado MCP server for YouTube Ads

Lemonado is a hosted MCP server that gives AI apps the user's live YouTube Ads, plus any other marketing tool they connect (Google Ads, Meta Ads, GA4 and 3,000+ more).

- Server URL: https://mcp.lemonado.io/mcp
- Transport: Streamable HTTP
- Auth: OAuth; the user signs in to Lemonado in the browser. No API keys.
- YouTube Ads data: Video campaigns and ads; Views, view rate and watch time; Quartile completion; Clicks and conversions
- Connecting YouTube Ads: Choose the account that runs your YouTube video campaigns.
- Tools on https://mcp.lemonado.io/mcp (custom connectors, coding agents, n8n): list_objects, get_object_details, execute_sql, get_google_ads_resource_metadata, list_companies, get_company_details, list_actions, get_action_details, execute_action
- Lemonado's Claude directory app and ChatGPT plugin (read-only): list_projects, list_project_sources, answer_data_question, explain_metric_change

## Setup
1. The user connects YouTube Ads in Lemonado (Connectors) and signs in.
2. In the company's settings → External tools, they turn the connection on and copy the server URL.
3. They add the server URL to their AI app. Setup per app: https://lemonado.io/integrations

Docs: https://docs.lemonado.io/mcp-reference
Full index for agents: https://lemonado.io/llms.txt
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Connect your YouTube ads account in Lemonado, turn on External tools, and add Lemonado to Claude or ChatGPT. Each guide on this page has the exact steps. Choose the account that runs your YouTube video campaigns. Then ask something like "Which video ads get watched past 50% and still drive conversions?"

Yes. It's a standard remote MCP server (https://mcp.lemonado.io/mcp): one command in Claude Code, one entry in Cursor's mcp.json, and an MCP Client Tool with a Lemonado token in n8n. In a coding agent, try "Save views, view rate, quartile completion and conversions by video ad for the last 90 days as data/youtube.csv."

Yes. Besides answering in Claude or ChatGPT, Lemonado runs YouTube Ads reports and alerts on a schedule, in Slack or email. For example: "Every Monday, rank last week's YouTube ads by view rate and cost per conversion."

Both. It reads your YouTube Ads data and can pause a video ad or change a budget once you approve. You choose which actions are on, and whether each one asks first.

MCP is included in Lemonado's paid plans and in the free trial, so you can try it before you pay.

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