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Short-form research, explained.

Playbooks, guides and research from the team behind Deep Search. Every method starts from videos that already worked.

09 articles, featured first, then newest

Featured

Product6 min read

How Deep Search works: from one question to 500 analyzed videos

What happens between your prompt and a cited answer: questions and parameters, a keyword plan, 500 to 1,000 videos watched, and a ranked result you can question.

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Product6 min read

Using ContHunt with AI agents through MCP

Connect ContHunt to Claude, Codex or Cursor, then run hook research, board curation and competitor teardowns from your agent. Setup and prompts included.

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Guides6 min read

Competitor content tracking: what to measure daily and why

Daily snapshots of a rival’s public videos show growth curves, not just totals. The metrics, formulas and weekly review questions that matter.

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Playbooks5 min read

Build a weekly trend radar for your niche

A 45-minute weekly routine that sorts formats, sounds, topics and products into emerging, rising, peaking and fading, with a one-page template.

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Research6 min read

Reading virality: the metrics that matter beyond views

Views are the loudest number and the least comparable. Five ratios, with formulas and a worked example, to find the videos actually worth studying.

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Playbooks6 min read

Finding winning products from short-form signals

A seven-signal scorecard for judging whether a ‘made me buy it’ product has real demand or just one lucky video, with a worked example and a kill list.

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Guides6 min read

UGC ad formats that sell: a field guide with brief templates

Seven UGC formats, when each one fits, how the beats run, and a brief line for each. Plus the rights, disclosure and testing checklist buyers need.

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Research7 min read

The 3-second rule: a hook taxonomy for short-form video

Nine hook patterns, what each puts on screen in the first 3 seconds, when it fits, and how to tag your niche’s videos to see which ones win.

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Playbooks6 min read

How to research TikTok hooks before you brief a creator

A six-step process that turns 200+ videos in your niche into a hook brief a creator can shoot from, with a template you can copy.

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Deep Search

Read the method. Paste it.

Every guide here starts from a prompt you can paste. Give one to ContHunt and Deep Search watches 500 to 1,000 videos on TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts in under five minutes, then answers with citations.