American Esoteric

Subscribers 29.6K

Videos 101

Views 1.2M

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American Esoteric explores ancient mysticism, esoteric philosophy, and comparative religion, focusing on sources from prehistoric Egypt to the modern world. The channel presents deep-dives into figures, ideas, and systems such as Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Platonism, and universalist thought, with recent videos ranging around 30–53 minutes and average views near 6K per video; uploads occur at about 0.8 per week.

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87% relevance

Subscribers 1.1M

Videos 469

Views 63.8M

Appearances 38

SERP 100%

Similarity 78%

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High search overlap on esoteric philosophy and mysticism-related queries (100% search) with content closely aligned in esoteric topics (78% content), indicating a shared audience and strong topical similarity to American Esoteric.

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70% relevance

Subscribers 1.0M

Videos 413

Views 92.5M

Appearances 17

SERP 66%

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66% relevance

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Videos 69

Views 3.3M

Appearances 8

SERP 42%

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59% relevance

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Videos 248

Views 6.8M

Appearances 11

SERP 33%

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SERP 30%

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Appearances 9

SERP 21%

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Discovered competitors include ESOTERICA (87% match, 1.1M subscribers) and Let's Talk Religion (70% match, 1M subscribers) as the top two by match strength, sharing overlapping queries like esoteric philosophy, mysticism and religion, and gnostic traditions. Occulys (66% match, 65.1K subscribers) also aligns with esoteric topics such as hermeticism and asabove. These channels compete on similar search queries including ancient wisdom traditions, alchemy and occultism, and pagan/restoration topics. American Esoteric has 29.6K subscribers, notably smaller than ESOTERICA and Let's Talk Religion, indicating a sizeable gap in subscriber count but with aligned content themes and audience interests.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to American Esoteric?

ESOTERICA — 87% match, 1.1M subscribers; Let's Talk Religion — 70% match, 1M subscribers; Occulys — 66% match, 65.1K subscribers. All three channels share a focus on esoteric, occult, and religious/philosophical topics similar to American Esoteric.

What type of content does American Esoteric make?

American Esoteric produces content about esotericism, occult topics, universalism, and Platonism, as indicated by video titles such as Valentinus: The Gnostic Who Almost Became Bishop of Rome; The Astral Universe: Mapping the Spirit Worlds & the Etheric Body; The Universal Monad & Supreme God in World Religions: A First Principle Deity; The Arabic Hermes: A Mystical Prophet Who Built the Pyramids & Founded a Universal Religion; The Divine Thomas Taylor: An English Pagan’s Recovery of the Ancient Theology. The channel uploads roughly 0.8 times per week, with an average of about 6.2K views per video.

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