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Subscribers 552K

Videos 1.2K

Views 94.3M

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American Experience | PBS covers American history and documentary storytelling, focusing on major historical events, figures, and social movements. The channel uses long-form, in-depth documentaries and features a broad set of keywords across history, civics, and biographical profiles, with recent videos like Love Canal, Stonewall Uprising, and The Eugenics Crusade. Upload activity appears ongoing since 2007, with an audience size around 552K subscribers and average views per video around the high hundreds of thousands.

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83% relevance

Subscribers 16.9M

Videos 1.6K

Views 2.2B

Appearances 34

SERP 100%

Similarity 71%

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64% relevance

Subscribers 15.2M

Videos 11K

Views 5.0B

Appearances 25

SERP 50%

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59% relevance

Subscribers 37.5K

Videos 1.2K

Views 9.9M

Appearances 12

SERP 30%

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Videos 746

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Appearances 21

SERP 38%

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Videos 906

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Appearances 11

SERP 29%

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Appeals to users querying 'industrial america history' and 'american political history' with substantial content overlap (72% content match) and a data-driven explainer approach that complements American Experience's documentary style.

Content Landscape

Top competitors identified are CrashCourse (83% match) and HISTORY (64% match). They share overlapping queries such as us civil rights history, american social reform, industrial america history, and american history documentaries. CrashCourse has 16.9M subscribers, vastly larger than American Experience, while HISTORY has 15.2M subscribers, also larger. Daily Dose Documentary (59% match) and Heimler's History (57% match) are smaller players with 37.5K and 1.2M subscribers respectively, competing on similar topics like industrial history and eugenics history. Mr. Beat (56% match) with 1.4M subscribers also overlaps on topics including us supreme court cases history and immigration policy history. Overall, competitors cluster around US history, civil rights, and political history, with larger channels dominating visibility for these queries.

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#8	51%	Pursuit of History	74%	42.9K	18%	7
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#10	49%	Free Documentary ▶	75%	5.7M	11%	2
#11	49%	TED-Ed ▶	66%	22.4M	22%	8
#12	48%	Beginning To Now	72%	296K	11%	3
#13	48%	History on Maps	74%	391K	9%	2
#14	47%	Equal Justice Initiative	71%	33K	12%	3
#15	47%	Real History	74%	507K	6%	3
#16	47%	Wild America	71%	101K	12%	7
#17	46%	National Geographic ▶	69%	25.9M	13%	5
#18	46%	NBC News Learn	72%	40.5K	8%	5
#19	46%	Fair For All	72%	11.7K	8%	2
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#21	46%	Hip Hughes (HipHughes)	72%	321K	9%	1
#22	46%	Biography ▶	71%	1.1M	9%	2
#23	46%	Simple History ▶	69%	5.1M	11%	3
#24	46%	TDC	69%	1.1M	10%	4
#25	46%	The New York Times ▶	71%	5.1M	7%	1
#26	46%	Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE)	71%	2.4K	7%	1
#27	45%	Spark ▶	70%	2.0M	8%	4
#28	45%	TED ▶	70%	27.2M	7%	3
#29	45%	ABC News ▶	68%	19.4M	10%	4
#30	45%	BayStateHistory	69%	10.1K	9%	1
#31	44%	BBC Three	68%	2.4M	9%	1
#32	44%	The American Rewind	66%	1.4K	11%	2
#33	44%	Mississippi Public Broadcasting	68%	48.9K	7%	3
#34	44%	Twinkl Teaching Resources - United States	66%	105K	10%	4
#35	43%	UC Davis	68%	52.8K	7%	3
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#42	42%	Geo History ▶	66%	1.0M	7%	1
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#44	42%	iheartny2001	65%	10.4K	7%	1
#45	42%	GPB Education	64%	82.6K	9%	4
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to American Experience | PBS?

CrashCourse — 83% match, 16.9M subscribers; HISTORY — 64% match, 15.2M subscribers; Daily Dose Documentary — 59% match, 37.5K subscribers. All three channels produce documentary-style educational content focused on history and world events, similar to American Experience | PBS.

What type of content does American Experience | PBS make?

American Experience | PBS creates full-length historical documentaries and educational videos, as suggested by titles like Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal, The Perfect Crime, Fly With Me, and Stonewall Uprising. The channel has an average of about 991.5K views per video, with an approximate upload rate described as ~0.0 uploads per week.

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