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Shares audience and interest in informative, science- and society-focused content with Insider, matching searches like prison system overview and disaster response centers (100% search overlap) but diverges in content style (65% content similarity).
Targets crime investigation and forensic topics overlapping with Insider’s interest areas (40% search overlap) while delivering more dramatized, true-crime storytelling (73% content similarity).
Both cover crime scene analysis and ethics-related tech topics, with significant search overlap but WIRED’s content emphasizes tech-driven storytelling (77% content similarity) rather than Insider’s broader news format.
Shares interest in dark web, biometric surveillance ethics, and disaster response topics (39% search overlap) but presents as enterprise tech content with tool-focused, technical depth (70% content similarity).
Centers on criminal psychology and interrogation ethics, aligning on key queries (35% search overlap) though JCS leans more into academic psychology discourse (72% content similarity).
Converges on criminal psychology topics (31% search overlap) with a similar analytical angle, yet Dr Frankenstein’s persona-driven, niche style yields high content similarity (74%).
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| #7 | 55% | The FBI Files | 79% | 1.0M | 19% | 4 |
| #8 | 55% | The Infographics Show ▶ | 75% | 15.4M | 25% | 6 |
| #9 | 55% | Unhinged Explainer | 76% | 10K | 22% | 4 |
| #10 | 53% | TED-Ed ▶ | 66% | 22.4M | 34% | 6 |
| #11 | 52% | Psych2Go ▶ | 68% | 13M | 27% | 5 |
| #12 | 51% | Law Enforcement Insider ▶ | 76% | 4.3K | 15% | 5 |
| #13 | 51% | Professor Dave Explains ▶ | 68% | 4.2M | 26% | 7 |
| #14 | 51% | TED ▶ | 67% | 27.2M | 26% | 6 |
| #15 | 51% | MedCircle | 67% | 1.7M | 26% | 3 |
| #16 | 50% | Explains 101 | 72% | 326K | 17% | 2 |
| #17 | 49% | Law&Crime Network | 69% | 7.5M | 19% | 4 |
| #18 | 49% | DW Documentary ▶ | 73% | 6.4M | 13% | 3 |
| #19 | 48% | alder | 72% | 22.1K | 13% | 2 |
| #20 | 48% | Chris Voss & The Black Swan Group | 72% | 512K | 13% | 1 |
| #21 | 48% | Simplified In Short | 67% | 18.1K | 20% | 3 |
| #22 | 48% | Blundera | 69% | 35.8K | 16% | 1 |
| #23 | 47% | Antenna | 68% | 38.5K | 16% | 2 |
| #24 | 47% | SLICE Full Doc ▶ | 70% | 479K | 13% | 1 |
| #25 | 47% | Pierson Anthropology | 68% | 1.2K | 15% | 2 |
| #26 | 47% | SciShow | 68% | 8.4M | 16% | 1 |
| #27 | 47% | CrashCourse ▶ | 69% | 16.9M | 14% | 5 |
| #28 | 47% | Forgotten Crimes | 67% | 3.3K | 16% | 1 |
| #29 | 46% | Hospice Nurse Julie | 66% | 681K | 16% | 5 |
| #30 | 46% | TED Archive | 68% | 292K | 13% | 1 |
| #31 | 46% | Freethink | 66% | 1.4M | 15% | 2 |
| #32 | 45% | Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) ▶ | 65% | 169K | 16% | 1 |
| #33 | 45% | FEMA | 63% | 58.1K | 17% | 2 |
| #34 | 45% | Human & Crime | 66% | 6.6K | 13% | 3 |
| #35 | 45% | Charisma on Command | 66% | 7.0M | 13% | 1 |
| #36 | 44% | ISACA HQ | 66% | 26.9K | 13% | 1 |
| #37 | 44% | The Guardian | 65% | 2.5M | 13% | 2 |
| #38 | 43% | CBS News ▶ | 63% | 7.0M | 13% | 4 |
| #39 | 43% | Conventus Law | 63% | 1.8K | 13% | 1 |
| #40 | 43% | Annenberg Classroom | 63% | 4.0K | 13% | 1 |
| #41 | 43% | University of Derby | 62% | 37.7K | 14% | 4 |
| #42 | 43% | Wellcome Collection | 63% | 108K | 12% | 3 |
| #43 | 42% | Osmosis from Elsevier | 60% | 3.7M | 16% | 1 |
| #44 | 42% | RegisteredNurseRN ▶ | 62% | 5.3M | 13% | 1 |
| #45 | 41% | NowThis Impact | 62% | 4.9M | 11% | 3 |
| #46 | 40% | ABC10 | 59% | 480K | 13% | 1 |
TEDx Talks (44.2M subscribers) matches 79%, A&E (11.7M subscribers) matches 60%, and WIRED (12.8M subscribers) matches 58%. All are YouTube channels with large subscriber bases and produce informational or news-oriented content, similar to Insider in scope and format.
Insider creates information-driven content including news, business, and entertainment topics. Video titles show investigative or explanatory formats (e.g., How FBI Undercover Agents Actually Work, How Hit Men Actually Work, How Gay Conversion Therapy Camps Actually Work) with average views around 994.9K per video and about 1.4 uploads per week.
We analyze Insider'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.
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