Save Hours per Video with AI Automation for On-Brand YouTube and Blog Content

If you’re a content creator, owner, or manager, you already know: creating a video is just the beginning. The real time-sink is everything that comes after—writing engaging titles, crafting SEO-friendly descriptions, drafting blog posts, and getting it all distributed. But what if you could automate that entire process and reclaim two to three hours with every single video you publish? In this video, I’m going to show you the exact AI workflows I use to make it happen. I’ll show you how uploading a single video can kick off a whole content creation and distribution system, delivering awesome, brand aligned, and optimized posts to save hours per video with AI automation.

How I Save Hours per Video with AI Automation with Zapier, Markup AI, and content generation.

All that creative energy you put into creation? It can disappear fast when you’re staring at a mountain of post-production. For every video, you need a good YouTube title, a detailed description packed with keywords, a blog post to drive traffic from your website, and more. Doing it all by hand? Super boring, and it *really* slows down your content speed. Instead of brainstorming your next video, you are copying, pasting, and rewriting. This process addresses that problem head-on. It demonstrates automation that changes a video into ready-to-publish items. This letting you focus on creating.

My AI-Powered Automated Video Publishing Workflow

The secret sauce here is an automation tool called Zapier. I’ve built a “Zap” (that’s what they call it) that’s basically the brain of this whole operation. It all starts the moment I upload a new video file into a specific Google Drive folder. You’ll see how one little upload starts a chain reaction. Zapier automatically finds the file, processes it, and sends it through a series of AI tools designed to handle each specific task. This isn’t just some idea; it’s a real, step-by-step guide that links different apps into one smooth, automatic process. Forget doing five different things yourself—I’ll show you how to let the automation do the work for you.

From raw audio to polished content with AI

So, how can an AI write about a video it hasn’t even “seen?” The secret is in the audio. First, I turn the video into an MP3 and send it to ChatGPT to get transcribed into text. This text becomes the source source for the entire operation. Then, with the written record ready, the system sends it to Google’s Gemini , telling it to make a 600-word YouTube description, a cool title, and a whole blog post. This is where the magic happens: the AI looks at your video and creates awesome written stuff to get people watching and boost your search ranking.

Beyond generic AI: the secret to on-brand content

Worried that AI will make your stuff sound like a robot, without your own style and terms? That’s why Markup AI is so important here. After Gemini makes the first version, everything goes to Markup AI for a final check. Inside Markup AI, I’ve uploaded my company’s style guide — a PDF that explains the tone and style of our company. I’ve also added a list of our special words to make sure we always use the right terms. This makes sure the AI doesn’t just make stuff up; it creates content that follows your brand voice, clarity and terminology requirements.

Hands-Free Delivery to YouTube and WordPress

Once Markup AI has made the content perfect, the automation does its last thing: it puts it out there. The system grabs the title and description and puts them right on our YouTube channel, making a draft video that’s ready for me to check. Simultaneously, it sends the blog post title, the blog post itself, and the YouTube link to my WordPress site, saving the draft there too. In about 15 minutes, a video file on my computer turns into a ready-to-go YouTube video and a blog post, all without me doing anything.

If you have any questions about how I setup this process, please don’t hesitate to reach out!

And if you want to start scanning, scoring, and rewriting your human and AI generated content to meet your brand guidelines, you can get started for free here.