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HASHTAGS & SHORTS

Find relevant hashtags for search and related content

Describe the video, pick long-form or Shorts, and get 12 hashtag ideas in three tiers: broad topic, niche, and specific long-tail. Review every suggestion for direct relevance before publishing. Free, no account needed. Then the same topic goes back to YouTube: we open the most-watched videos published on it in the last 30 days, read the hashtags they actually used, and show you the ones your set does not have — each with the video that used it and its view count.

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Hashtags and tags are different fields. For the private tag box in YouTube Studio, use the YouTube Tag Generator instead.

YouTube policy source: Find playlists & videos using hashtags · checked Aug 27, 2026.

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Say what the video is about

One line is enough. The more concrete the topic, the more the niche and long-tail tiers land on hashtags that describe your video rather than your whole category.

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Add the format as context

Choose long-form or Shorts so the suggestions can reflect how you describe the upload. The format choice does not guarantee different ranking, reach, views, or feed placement.

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Review, then paste the relevant set

Add relevant hashtags to the title or description. From the description, up to three hashtags that YouTube considers most engaging may appear by the video title; they are not necessarily the first three you entered. Remove anything that does not directly relate to the content.

What hashtags are other videos on my topic using?

Every hashtag generator will hand you a list. None of them tell you what the videos already doing well on your subject chose to use — which is the only version of this question with a checkable answer. So after the twelve, this page opens the five most-watched videos published on your topic in the last 30 days, reads the hashtags out of their titles and descriptions, and shows you the ones your set does not have, each next to the video it came from.

It reads the video, not a database

The hashtags come from the titles and descriptions of specific published videos, each one linked so you can open it and see the tag in place. Hashtags written in a title are picked up as well as ones in the description — about a quarter of videos only put them in the title.

Five videos, and we say five

Opening each video costs a lookup, so we open the five most-watched rather than everything we can find. Five is enough to see a tag repeating; it is not a survey, and the page says how many it read.

Not used is not the same as not usable

When your set contains a tag none of those five videos used, we say exactly that — those five did not use it — rather than implying nobody does. Five videos cannot support the stronger claim.

Sometimes the answer is that nobody bothers

In some corners of YouTube the top recent videos use no hashtags at all. When that happens the page tells you, which is more useful than a list of twelve tags nobody in your niche is using.

You only type the topic once

The twelve hashtags and the check both come from the line you typed at the top. There is no second form and no sign-in needed.

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Describe this video. Validate the next idea yourself.

Hashtags describe a single upload. Use your own analytics to choose the next topic; Kabo's Trend Radar is a preview of future category evidence, not live week-over-week tracking today.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I see what hashtags a YouTube video used?

Open the video and read its title and the top of its description — that is where hashtags live on YouTube, and up to three of them appear above the title. There is no hidden hashtag field. To do it across a topic rather than one video at a time, type the topic into the generator above: after the twelve suggestions, the page opens the five most-watched videos published on that topic in the last 30 days, reads the hashtags out of their titles and descriptions, and lists the ones your set is missing with a link to the video that used each one.

How many hashtags can you use on YouTube?

Kabo returns 12 suggestions by product design. YouTube's current Help guidance says that if a video or playlist has more than 60 hashtags, it ignores every hashtag on that content. That is an over-tagging rule, not a recommendation to use 60. Keep only hashtags that directly relate to the content.

Where do YouTube hashtags show up?

You can add hashtags to a video's title or description. From the description, up to three hashtags that YouTube considers most engaging may appear by the video title; they are not necessarily the first three entered. Hashtags remain clickable in the title or description and link to results featuring other videos that share the hashtag.

Do hashtags help YouTube Shorts?

Hashtags on Shorts are clickable topic labels and can help viewers find related content through search or hashtag results. They do not guarantee feed distribution, ranking, reach, or views. Keep every hashtag directly related to the Short.

Should hashtags go in the title or description?

YouTube allows hashtags in either the title or description. A title hashtag uses part of the title's character budget. From the description, YouTube may select up to three hashtags to appear by the video title, but input order does not guarantee that display. Whichever location you choose, keep every hashtag directly related to the upload.

What's the difference between tags and hashtags?

Tags are a separate, non-public metadata field in YouTube Studio with a 500-character budget. Hashtags are public, clickable, and live in the title or description. YouTube's published over-tagging rule applies when content has more than 60 hashtags; it is not a 15-hashtag cap.

Can I use the same hashtags on every video?

A small set of channel-level hashtags is fine if they describe every video you make. Repeating a large block of loosely related hashtags across uploads is what YouTube's spam policy targets, and videos can be removed for it. Keep a couple of constants and let the rest change with the topic.

How do I find trending hashtags on YouTube?

Search a relevant hashtag or open a hashtag from a video's title or description to review the results that share it. Kabo does not provide live trend data, and those research paths do not promise future ranking, distribution, reach, or views. Use only hashtags that directly relate to your upload.

Do YouTube hashtags get you more views?

YouTube says hashtags connect content with other videos or playlists that share the hashtag and help people find related content through search. It does not promise a specific ranking, distribution, reach, or view increase. Treat hashtags as accurate topic labels, then measure the video's actual performance in YouTube Analytics.

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