We found 24 YouTube channels similar to Backlog
High search overlap on archival description and best practices (search 100% match; content 79%), indicating a shared audience of archival professionals while SAA’s content emphasizes professional standards more than Backlog’s practical project workflow.
Strong alignment around archival management and disaster planning for archives (search 89%); content focuses on records management and archives guidance, signaling a related audience but more regionally framed policy content than Backlog.
Shared emphasis on collection care and preservation topics (content 79%), with partial search overlap (57%), suggesting a common audience of preservation professionals while AIC/FAIC leans more toward preservation ethics and audiovisual topics.
Overlap in archival and records management topics (search 68%; content 67%), reflecting a similar professional audience, though UBC’s content includes broader archival governance and academic library perspectives.
Queries on collection management and audiovisual preservation align with Backlog (content 84%), but lower search overlap (39%) implies a similar niche audience with differing emphasis and format.
Shared focus on processing, finding aids, and physical collection care (content 84%), yet limited search overlap (32%), indicating a related archival services audience with distinct instructional style.
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| #7 | 61% | British Library ▶ | 76% | 92.6K | 39% | 4 |
| #8 | 60% | IBM Technology ▶ | 69% | 1.6M | 46% | 4 |
| #9 | 58% | NEDCC - Northeast Document Conservation Center | 79% | 2.1K | 28% | 2 |
| #10 | 55% | ArtworkArchive | 78% | 2.3K | 22% | 2 |
| #11 | 55% | Library of Congress ▶ | 66% | 348K | 38% | 6 |
| #12 | 54% | Ask Leo! | 68% | 277K | 33% | 2 |
| #13 | 54% | alisWebsite | 68% | 24.2K | 31% | 4 |
| #14 | 53% | Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives | 74% | 1.1K | 22% | 3 |
| #15 | 52% | University of Amsterdam | 63% | 25.2K | 35% | 3 |
| #16 | 52% | Indiana Historical Society | 70% | 1.6K | 23% | 1 |
| #17 | 51% | Canto | 70% | 2.1K | 23% | 1 |
| #18 | 51% | CSC — Tieteen tietotekniikan keskus / CSC — IT Center for Science | 70% | 1.4K | 21% | 3 |
| #19 | 50% | Alaska Libraries Archives Museums | 68% | 1.9K | 23% | 1 |
| #20 | 49% | Amazon Web Services | 66% | 836K | 23% | 1 |
| #21 | 49% | Anthony Gugliotta ▶ | 65% | 547K | 24% | 3 |
| #22 | 46% | The Ramsey Show Highlights ▶ | 61% | 4.5M | 23% | 1 |
| #23 | 46% | TEDx Talks ▶ | 62% | 44.2M | 21% | 2 |
| #24 | 45% | Jasmine Jones | 60% | 38.6K | 23% | 1 |
Backlog's biggest YouTube competitors are Society of American Archivists (87% match, 1.9K subscribers), New York State Archives (73% match, 7K subscribers), and AIC & FAIC (70% match, 4.2K subscribers). All three channels share a focus on archival science, archival practices, and professional archivist content.
Backlog creates educational archival content based on video titles such as Restricted Materials, Archival Loans: Procedures, Paperwork, and Protection, Metadata 101: Making Archives and Digital Collections Discoverable, Accession, Acquisition, & Appraisal: How Materials Enter an Archive, and Record Lifecycle: How Records Move From Creation to the Archives. The channel averages about 445 views per video and uploads roughly 0.4 times per week.
We analyze Backlog '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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