Best keyword tracking tool for content creators

The keyword tracking space is dominated by 40-60 established players, mostly built for SEOs and enterprises (Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz), with a secondary tier of 100+ smaller tools trying to undercut on price. The core failure across nearly all of them: they treat 'content creator' as a subcategory of 'marketer' rather than a distinct use case with different workflows, budgets, and platforms. Most creators abandon keyword tracking altogether because setup takes hours, the interface is dense, and the data doesn't connect to where they actually publish (YouTube analytics, Substack, Medium). The real gap is a creator-first keyword tracker that integrates directly with YouTube and emerging platforms, offers dead-simple setup (track URLs, not keywords lists), costs $10-30/month, and surfaces actionable insights for each platform's algorithm rather than Google organic traffic. A new shipper here should focus on one platform obsessively—probably YouTube first—and build the integration so seamless that tracking becomes automatic, not an afterthought.