We found 45 YouTube channels similar to Marginal Revolution University
Both target introductory economics with a strong emphasis on core concepts and basics (intro to economics, microeconomics basics, economic concepts) and share a high search alignment, reflecting similar audience interest, though Marginal Revolution University and Clifford's channel differ in style and presentation.
Both cover fundamental economic topics like demand and supply, tradeoffs, and equilibrium price/quantity; they share a moderate-to-strong search overlap but EconplusDal's content depth and delivery differ, yielding a mid-level content similarity.
Both aim at broad, introductory economics education (intro to economics, microeconomics basics) with substantial search overlap, yet CrashCourse offers a more rapid, course-style format, creating a notable but not identical content style match.
Similar focus on introductory economics topics (intro to economics, demand and supply, opportunity cost) with solid search overlap, though Khan Academy often uses a structured, modular tutorial approach that differs from MRU's style.
Shares interest in opportunity cost, equilibrium price/quantity, and demand curve analysis with MRU, showing a moderate search alignment and high content similarity in topics though presentation is distinct.
Matches MRU on introductory economics topics (intro to economics, microeconomics basics, demand and supply) with notable search overlap, while OCW typically provides longer-form lecture content and lecture notes, differing in format.
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| #7 | 52% | econhelp | 84% | 20.1K | 4% | 5 |
| #8 | 52% | EnhanceTuition | 80% | 28.2K | 10% | 7 |
| #9 | 50% | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | 75% | 31.2K | 13% | 7 |
| #10 | 50% | ReviewEcon | 79% | 41.5K | 7% | 7 |
| #11 | 49% | Courses for Crammers | 80% | 7.2K | 4% | 8 |
| #12 | 49% | DrAzevedoEcon | 79% | 71K | 5% | 7 |
| #13 | 49% | Econbusters | 80% | 7.3K | 3% | 3 |
| #14 | 49% | You Will Love Economics | 76% | 75.5K | 8% | 8 |
| #15 | 49% | Economicsfun | 79% | 93.6K | 3% | 1 |
| #16 | 49% | Prof Ryan | 78% | 28K | 5% | 5 |
| #17 | 48% | Sprouts ▶ | 75% | 1.9M | 8% | 4 |
| #18 | 48% | Business School 101 ▶ | 75% | 117K | 9% | 7 |
| #19 | 48% | mjmfoodie | 78% | 60.4K | 3% | 2 |
| #20 | 48% | Adam's Axiom | 78% | 37.8K | 4% | 2 |
| #21 | 48% | Market Power | 74% | 68K | 8% | 2 |
| #22 | 48% | Professor Dave Explains ▶ | 66% | 4.2M | 20% | 15 |
| #23 | 47% | One Minute Economics ▶ | 73% | 232K | 8% | 5 |
| #24 | 47% | Educationleaves ▶ | 76% | 171K | 2% | 1 |
| #25 | 46% | The Economics Detective | 75% | 33.9K | 4% | 2 |
| #26 | 46% | THE WHAT IS PROJECT | 75% | 21.5K | 2% | 3 |
| #27 | 46% | IMF | 74% | 201K | 3% | 2 |
| #28 | 45% | JeaFx | 73% | 743K | 3% | 3 |
| #29 | 45% | Wireless Philosophy | 72% | 364K | 3% | 3 |
| #30 | 45% | Big Think | 72% | 8.6M | 3% | 4 |
| #31 | 44% | Helpful Professor Explains! | 71% | 40K | 5% | 1 |
| #32 | 44% | khanacademymedicine | 72% | 1.9M | 3% | 1 |
| #33 | 44% | Hoover Institution | 71% | 1.1M | 4% | 4 |
| #34 | 44% | Edspira ▶ | 70% | 367K | 5% | 5 |
| #35 | 44% | Conservation Strategy Fund | 71% | 23.6K | 3% | 3 |
| #36 | 43% | tutor2u | 69% | 1.6M | 5% | 8 |
| #37 | 43% | Accounting Stuff ▶ | 69% | 1.0M | 5% | 3 |
| #38 | 43% | explainitychannel | 68% | 67.6K | 6% | 3 |
| #39 | 43% | freeCodeCamp.org ▶ | 68% | 11.5M | 4% | 5 |
| #40 | 43% | The Efficient Engineer ▶ | 69% | 1.4M | 3% | 3 |
| #41 | 42% | JFlo Education | 68% | 2.0K | 3% | 4 |
| #42 | 42% | Microlearning Daily | 68% | 6.2K | 2% | 1 |
| #43 | 42% | TED-Ed ▶ | 68% | 22.4M | 3% | 3 |
| #44 | 41% | FreedomWorks Media | 66% | 1.5K | 3% | 2 |
| #45 | 36% | TIME | 58% | 1.5M | 4% | 1 |
Jacob Clifford — 85% match, 1.1M subscribers; EconplusDal — 65% match, 378K subscribers; CrashCourse — 55% match, 16.9M subscribers. All three are education-focused YouTube channels that cover economics and social science topics, similar to Marginal Revolution University's economics and learning content.
MRU creates educational videos about economics and related topics, as shown by titles like Introduction to Economics, 200 Years of Tech Panics, and The Rise of Digital People. Videos range from 2K to 2M views, with an average around 586.3K views per video; the channel appears to upload multiple times per week.
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