Channels Like Mind The Map

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Mind The Map
Subscribers 46.8K
Videos 66
Views 15.8M

Mind The Map delivers video essays on urban planning, cities, and geography, evidenced by titles about transit, metro history, and urban design. The channel blends deep-dives and explainers with occasional historical or speculative scenarios, utilizing keywords like urban planning, urban design, and city geography. Content is published regularly (as of the data) with an average view per video around 480.6K and a catalog of 66 videos since joining in 2017.

Content Landscape

Top competitors include Urban Planner Explained (86% match) and RMTransit (71% match). Both share overlapping queries with Mind The Map such as urban planning, city geography, transport planning, and metro history. Not Just Bikes (52% match) and City Beautiful (61% match) also compete on similar queries like urban planning and public transit planning, with City Beautiful being notably larger (739K subscribers) than Mind The Map, while RMTransit (346K) and Urban Planner Explained (50.7K) vary in size. The common thread is analysis and explainers around city infrastructure, transit systems, and urban design.

Similar Channels

We found 46 YouTube channels similar to Mind The Map

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#1 Urban Planner Explained

86% relevance

Subscribers 50.7K
Videos 33
Views 4.4M
Appearances 35
SERP 100%
Similarity 76%
urban planning city geography transport planning

Strong search overlap on urban planning and city geography queries (100% and 76% content alignment) suggests they attract a similar audience; Mind The Map and Urban Planner Explained both explore how cities are laid out and planned, though their presentation styles differ.

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#2 RMTransit

71% relevance

Subscribers 346K
Videos 782
Views 62.4M
Appearances 31
SERP 58%
Similarity 79%
metro history public transit planning historic transit routes

High content similarity (79%) around public transit planning and historic routes aligns with Mind The Map's focus, and the search overlap (58%) indicates a shared audience interested in metro history and planning.

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#3 City Beautiful

61% relevance

Subscribers 739K
Videos 200
Views 91.3M
Appearances 16
SERP 37%
Similarity 77%
urban planning city geography transport planning

Similarly targets urban planning and transport concepts with a strong content match (77%), and substantial search overlap for city geography and planning topics, indicating audiences and topics converge closely.

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#4 imperatur

52% relevance

Subscribers 334K
Videos 827
Views 124.7M
Appearances 9
SERP 10%
Similarity 79%
city geography public transit planning city infrastructure

Although search overlap is low (10%), imperatur covers city geography and city infrastructure with high content similarity (79%), suggesting they attract a related audience but differ in topic emphasis or presentation style.

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#5 Not Just Bikes

52% relevance

Subscribers 1.4M
Videos 139
Views 198.3M
Appearances 9
SERP 14%
Similarity 77%
urban planning public transit planning urban design

Shares key topics (urban planning and public transit planning) with a solid content similarity (77%), and a notable search overlap (14%), indicating a related but distinct approach to urban design and transportation.

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#6 Real Civil Engineer

50% relevance

Subscribers 2.8M
Videos 1.9K
Views 1.1B
Appearances 13
SERP 25%
Similarity 67%
civil engineering cities

Moderate search overlap (25%) paired with substantial content overlap (67%) shows a shared audience around civil engineering cities, though the channel emphasizes engineering methodology more than Mind The Map.

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#24 45% Vox 69% 12.7M 10% 4
#25 45% WiseFish 70% 224K 7% 3
#26 44% Boundless Building 70% 2.7K 6% 1
#27 44% Byron Tang 69% 4.3K 7% 1
#28 43% Geo History 68% 1.0M 7% 1
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Search Queries Used

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Mind The Map?

Urban Planner Explained (50.7K subscribers, ~86% match) and RMTransit (346K subscribers, ~71% match) are Mind The Map's biggest competitors. City Beautiful (739K subscribers, ~61% match) also competes closely. All three channels focus on urban planning, transit, and city design topics, similar to Mind The Map's emphasis on cities, urban planning, and geography.

What type of content does Mind The Map make?

Mind The Map creates content about urban planning, city design, and geographic-focused transit topics, as indicated by video titles like Why Germany has 11 FAKE Bus Stops, The Riskiest Route to West-Berlin: Transit through the Soviet Sector, Explained, and East Berlin's RISKIEST Escape Route: Cold War Ghost Stations Explained. The channel averages about 480.6K views per video, with recent uploads aligning to high-views in the hundreds of thousands. Upload frequency is described as ~? uploads/week, based on the provided data.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Mind The Map?

We analyze Mind The Map'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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