HolmesHobbies covers radio control (RC) crawling, electronics for traction systems, and light electric vehicle projects, blending how-to, reviews, builds, and hobbyist exploration. Content includes tutorials, product updates, and project explainers (e.g., motors, BECs, micro crawlers) with recent videos focusing on new motors, product previews, and practical setup tips. The channel posts about 3,100 average views per video and publishes multiple engaging videos, reflecting an active hobby-focused presence since joining in 2011.
Similar Channels
We found 48 YouTube channels similar to HolmesHobbies
They target the same RC crawler audience with high overlap in searches like 'rc crawler motors' and 'scale rc crawlers,' and their content closely aligns with durability and upgrades, yielding a 86% content match to HolmesHobbies.
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They share an audience around RC crawlers and builds, evidenced by strong search overlap on 'brushed motor upgrades' and 'micro crawler builds,' with content focusing on upgrades and tires giving an 83% content match.
Overlap exists in durability and scale crawlers searches, particularly for 'rc crawlers durability' and '1/18 scale crawler,' with content style moderately similar (77% content match).
Similar focus on micro crawler builds and durability alongside crawler chassis mods, showing substantial overlap in searches and a 82% content match indicating parallel but distinct presentation.
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Shared interest in scale crawlers and upgrades like 'brushed motor upgrades' and 'rc vehicle batteries' yields broad search alignment, while content is highly similar (86% content match).
Overlap on rc crawler tires and 1/18 scale crawlers aligns searches with HolmesHobbies, and content shows strong alignment in RC battery and tire topics (82% content match).
Content Landscape
Discovered competitors include AMain Hobbies (91% match) and Cape Crawlers (87% match) as top overlaps. They share queries around rc crawler motors, brushed motor upgrades, rc crawlers durability, and micro/scale crawler topics. Do U RC (83% match) and Tomley RC (78% match) also compete on micro crawler builds and chassis/mod topics, while RCDriver_Online (75% match) overlaps on brushed motor upgrades and batteries. HolmesHobbies has 55.1K subscribers, whereas the competitors range from about 161K to 333K, indicating smaller channel size but similar topic focus on RC crawlers, motors, and scale builds.
Which YouTube channels are most similar to HolmesHobbies?
AMain Hobbies — 91% match, 333K subscribers; Cape Crawlers — 87% match, 199K subscribers; Do U RC — 83% match, 161K subscribers. All three, like HolmesHobbies, focus on radio control (RC) vehicles and related gear, reviews, and how-to content in RC hobbying.
What type of content does HolmesHobbies make?
HolmesHobbies creates RC-focused content, including motor updates, new motor/testing, and compatibility discussions, as shown by titles like 1080 brushed motor videos, RC crawler plans, and motor fit tests. The channel averages about 3.1K views per video, with a mix of uploads weekly; recent videos range around 1.1K to 6.6K views.
How do we determine which channels are similar to HolmesHobbies?
We analyze HolmesHobbies's recent videos, generate topic-relevant search queries, check YouTube search results, and compare the meaning of each channel's content to measure similarity. The result is a ranked list sorted by SERP overlap, semantic similarity, and search appearances.
