Find out if YouTube pays before you scale it
Give it your Google data and best video ads. Get a yes or wait, a cold campaign, an ad scorecard and remarketing.
Add YouTube and Demand Gen and check they pay is a free AI workflow for the job "Run Google Ads". It guides your AI through several skills in order, passing each step's output to the next.
Free · No account · Made by AI Blocks · Level: advanced · Thinking: high
What it does
Many stores jump onto YouTube to test an offer, spend a few hundred dollars, see nothing and write the channel off. Cold traffic is costly and slow to learn, so it only pays when the offer, the page and the video ads are already proven somewhere else. Then comes the next trap: reading the results by clicks, when new-customer cost is what counts. The steps start with a yes or wait call, so you do not spend before you are ready. Then it builds a cold Demand Gen campaign around the videos you cut. You run it for two to four weeks and bring back results by ad. It scores each ad out of 100, tells you which to scale and which to pause, then adds remarketing for viewers and visitors who did not buy. Two pauses ask you to cut three to five short videos from your best Meta…
You give it
- Your Google results (spend, sales and cost per sale by campaign)
- Your best video ads from Meta or TikTok, with their results
- Your average order value, margin and break-even cost per new customer
- The landing page you would send YouTube traffic to
- Your offer, shipping and returns terms, and audience list sizes
- Your brand file (optional)
- Brand brain (optional)
You get
- A yes or wait call with a readiness score out of 100, a starting budget split and what to skip
- A cold Demand Gen plan with bids, audiences, ad groups and a brief for a five-second hook
- A score out of 100 for each ad, with scale, keep or pause and the next thing to test
- A remarketing plan with budgets and five ad ideas, one for each reason people leave
Use it when
- Your Meta video ads work, your Shopping and brand Search are steady, and you want a new source of customers on Google.
- You ran a YouTube test, got mixed numbers, and cannot tell which ads to keep or what to change.
- You have many site visitors who left without buying and want a plan to win them back with video.
Steps
- YouTube readiness checker: Tell it your AOV, ad stack and Meta winners. Get a yes or wait on YouTube, with a score out of 100.
- Demand Gen cold traffic builder: Give it your winning videos, page and budget. Get Demand Gen settings, ad groups and a creative brief.
- YouTube ad results reader: Give it your YouTube ad results. Get a scale, keep or pause call per ad, with a score out of 100.
- Google remarketing campaign builder: Give it your audiences and offer. Get remarketing setups with budgets, caps and five doubt-led ad concepts.
How to use it
- Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.
- Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say "Follow HANDOFF.md".
- Give it your Google results, your best video ads and your average order value. If the answer is wait, fix what it names before you spend.
- When it pauses, cut three to five short videos from your best Meta video and choose the landing page.
- After two to four weeks, export results by ad, with placement and new-customer cost, and bring them back for step 3.