The Right YouTube Channels
For Your Message

Contextual advertising that's effective, set up in minutes

Human-Curated YouTube Channels

We human-review every YouTube channel, classifying it according to topic and safety.

Relevance = Engagement

Contextual strategies see up to 5x the performance of audience targeting alone, making it a must-have for every campaign.

Off the Shelf & Custom Topics

Choose from 700+ ready-to-activate topics, or create a custom topic.

Audience + Contextual
- That’s the Modern YouTube Strategy

Audience targeting drives reach.
Contextual drives better engagement and relevance.

1 / Audience Targeting​ + Safe,YouTube Channels

- Use Google's audience data, affinity targeting and in-market data, to identify the right users.

- Remove wasteful, unsafe, and irrelevant channels with Daily Exclusions.

​2 / Contextual Topics → Relevance & Intent

- Topics selected by the client, curated by Filament.

- Fully transparent topic & channel reporting​.

There are a handful of contextual topics for every brand that will drive outsized engagement and results.

What Contextual Looks Like in Action

It's not about keywords. It's about content intelligence.

Category:

Business and Personal Finance

Relevant Topics:

Personal Finance Education, Tax Season Prep, Credit Education & Repair, Personal and Business Tax Tools, Business Education

Category:

Luxury & Lifestyle

Relevant Topics:

Antique Jewelry, Jewelry Hauls, Fashion Accessory Reviews, Gemstones and Fine Jewelry, Sustainable Fashion, Collecting and Antiques, Handbag Resale, Luxury and Designer Shoes

Category:

Higher Education

Relevant Topics:

College Admissions, Nursing Education, MBA Prep Advanced Test Taking (GMAT), College Vloggers, Law School Review, High School to Undergraduate Programs, Grade School Teachers

How It Works

Built for clarity, not complexity.

Channel Identification

Our tech analyzes millions of YouTube channels and videos to identify new content and detect emerging topics, verticals, and themes.

Human Review & Classification

Our YouTube Librarians manually verify each YouTube channel, considering cultural and contextual nuances. No broad assumptions or black-box scoring. A real person reviews every YouTube channel in our ecosystem.

Select & Activate

Choose the topics that you want to appear on in Filament’s platform, as easy as drag and drop!

Your campaign is activated only in placements that meet your brand's contextual, safety, and performance criteria. It's dynamic, flexible, and always aligned with your goals.

Why Contextual Compliments
Audience Targeting

Contextual reaches high intent and engaged users

Audience Targeting

  • The default strategy, which delivers average results
  • Google’s audience segments are a black box, often extremely broad
  • Ads may show in irrelevant or unsafe content, with limited ability to control
  • Growing technological difficulties – cross-domain tracking, cookies, opt-outs, regulation, etc.
  • Control diminishes as platforms restrict data

Contextual Targeting

  • Aligns ads to content a person is engaging with right now, no tracking required
  • Fully transparent: every placement is contextual, auditable, and reviewed
  • Average 30%-400% higher engagement and conversions
  • Built for a privacy-first web, no personal data, no consent management headaches
  • Only placed in brand-safe, contextually matched content environments

It's not either/or, it's both.
Without contextual, you're missing half of the performance

Where We Activate

One framework activated everywhere.

YouTube

Pre-roll, Mid-roll, In-stream – analyzing millions of videos and channels for ideal placements.

DV360

Premium content in YouTube Partner channels with contextual filters applied.

Connected TV

Streaming environments using context-aware ad serving tied to program metadata.

YouTube Shorts

Short-form placements on trending content.

Made for Real Brand Goals

We bring real outcomes, not just reach.

Awareness

Place your brand next to content your audience already trusts. Tap into familiar creators and high-quality content to build credibility

Consideration

Be present when your prospects search, compare, and learn. Use content with high information value to influence decision-making.

Performance

Contextually relevant campaigns drive better performance across the entire media funnel. Relevance unlocks efficient CPA/CPLs

Change Perception

Position your brand as a credible voice by showing up beside commentary, niche discussions, and category-defining creators that can shape your brands’ perception

It's Time to Rethink Context

Relevance without compromise. That's the future.

The age of chasing users is fading. The age of meeting them authentically, contextually, and safely is here.

Contextual advertising is your edge, whether you’re launching a new product or just trying to be more effective on YouTube.