Josh Maraney Drops 143 Free AI Search Video Shorts
If there is one question hanging over South African marketing teams as the last stretch of 2026 arrives, it is how to handle search that has spilled far beyond Google. A free answer now exists in the form of the short-video library built by Josh Maraney, who founded Top Click Media. The collection has grown to 765 clips sorted across 72 topics, and 143 of those clips live in the artificial intelligence section. AI has therefore become the second-biggest subject in the whole library, trailing only search engine optimisation, a split that mirrors how much of a marketer's week now goes to problems that simply did not exist two years back.
Access costs nothing, no account is required, and everything can be found by keyword. There is no gating, no slow drip of content, and no course waiting to be sold at the finish.
What is actually in the library
Each short Josh Maraney has released lives on one page, grouped automatically into topics that are derived from the individual video titles. Those 72 topics fold into nine wider buckets: SEO, AI, Google Ads, Tools and Gear, Web and E-commerce, Business and Agency, Social Media, Local and Maps, plus a modest catch-all. A visitor can choose a topic in the sidebar or run a keyword search, and the site actively points people toward the search box whenever a clip has ended up somewhere odd, a side effect of topic sorting being automatic instead of hand-curated.
Output can be sorted by relevance, by newest, by most viewed or by most liked, which helps when a person wants today's take on a subject instead of whatever happened to be filmed earliest. Clips play right there on the page rather than kicking the visitor across to another site, so anyone chasing an answer can run through four or five in a row without losing their spot. Fresh shorts debut on the YouTube channel and show up in the library inside a day.
AI search is now 143 of the 765 clips
This is the fast-growing corner, and it happens to be the one South African business owners keep raising. Inside the AI section, ChatGPT stands as the biggest single topic anywhere in the library with 49 clips. Claude comes next on 27, AI Tools has 22, AI Search and AEO has 19, Gemini has 14, and a smaller AI SEO topic adds another 5. Added up, that is 143 shorts explaining how the assistants behave, how they choose their sources, and what a business can realistically adjust on its own site.
The thread running through all of it is that search engine optimisation and answer engine optimisation are a single job carried out in two places. The brand that has built clear, well-structured, quotable pages is usually the brand that gets named when someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity to recommend something. The brand with thin pages and no steady story about itself usually drops out of both the ranked listings and the generated reply. The clips handle this in short, one-idea bursts rather than drawn-out theory, which fits people who are experimenting with the assistants themselves and want a precise answer to a precise problem.
Search engine optimisation remains the biggest group
SEO still tops the list with 173 clips, and it deals with the unglamorous groundwork that makes AI visibility possible to begin with. Technical SEO carries 27 shorts, SEO Myths has 26, Keyword Research has 25, Backlinks has 17, Local SEO has 16, and there are smaller topics on on-site SEO, page titles, meta descriptions, topical authority, digital PR, content and blogging, and picking an agency. One topic gathers SEO results and case studies, while another pulls together clips about Top Click Media and its clients.
Viewed as a whole, these SEO video tutorials play like an ongoing commentary on what genuinely shifts rankings, including plenty of clips built solely to tear down a widely held belief that was never accurate. The fact that this myth-busting topic ranks second in the SEO group hints at just how much poor advice is still doing the rounds in the South African market.
Google Ads gets its own 136 clips
The paid side is handled as its own craft rather than a footnote. The Google Ads group holds 136 shorts, headed by 28 general Google Ads clips, followed by 11 on match types and negatives, 9 on auction insights and competitor research, 8 on auto-apply and Google's own recommendations, 8 on account audits, 8 on bidding, budgets and cost per click, 7 on Performance Max and 7 on search term reports. Smaller topics take in location targeting, remarketing, shopping ads, display, quality score, placements and exclusions, ad scheduling, account structure and click fraud.
Anybody who has watched an account quietly slide after Google applied one of its own recommendations will understand exactly why that topic is there. The clips speak to the person who has to justify the spend, not to someone cramming for a certification.
Short format, no signup, no course funnel
Length is the choice that shapes the entire project. These are shorts, so each one tackles a single question and ends. That keeps the library handy in the spare minutes of a busy day, and it keeps it truly searchable, because a keyword search hands back a precise answer instead of a ninety-minute recording with the useful part hidden somewhere inside.
It also strips out the usual friction. There is no email wall, no trial, no upsell bolted onto the digital marketing videos, and no demand to register before watching anything. For a small business owner who cannot stretch to a training budget, or a junior marketer scrambling to get ready for a client meeting, that counts for more than slick production.
Why this is useful in September
September is the month South African businesses begin locking in budgets for the closing quarter and the year to come, and this time around those discussions keep colliding with the same doubt over AI search. Owners are being warned their traffic is about to shift, yet given little concrete direction on what to actually do differently come Monday morning. A free, searchable stack of short answers, arranged by topic and refreshed daily, is a sensible spot to test a claim before approving a plan that leans on it.
The library quietly does something else too, which is to demonstrate the work rather than merely declare expertise. Every item is dated, published and searchable, so a would-be client can judge for themselves how a practitioner thinks well before any meeting happens.
Anyone keen to explore the full library can reach it at https://joshmaraney.com/.
About Josh Maraney
Josh Maraney heads up Top Click Media, a South African digital marketing agency, and maintains a free library of short videos spanning search engine optimisation, answer engine optimisation, Google Ads, analytics, web platforms and the business of running a marketing agency. The library currently carries 765 shorts across 72 automatically generated topics, can be searched by keyword, asks for no signup, and refreshes from his YouTube channel within a day of each new video appearing. He is also present on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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