Barrett

Subscribers 405K

Videos 735

Views 60.9M

Channels Like Barrett

Barrett covers life in China through a mix of opinion pieces, travel experiences, culture, food, tech, infrastructure, and lifestyle topics, presented as vlogs and in-depth explorations. The channel emphasizes life in China and related regional and societal themes, with content style spanning explorations, reviews, and reflections, and uploads averaging around 37.9K views per video across 735 published works since joining in 2019.

Results last updated 3 months ago.

Similar Channels

We found 46 YouTube channels similar to Barrett

#1

The Food Ranger

88% relevance

Subscribers 5.9M

Videos 400

Views 926.8M

Appearances 8

SERP 99%

Similarity 82%

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Both target food-focused travel in China with high overlap on searches like 'china street food' and 'chinese cuisine review', and a strong similar audience, though Barrett's content style diverges in pacing and host presentation (content match 82%, search overlap 99%).

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#2

Little Chinese Everywhere view on YouTube ▶

83% relevance

Subscribers 732K

Videos 298

Views 78.4M

Appearances 7

SERP 92%

Similarity 78%

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They share readers interested in Xinjiang travel and Chinese regional cultures, aligning on queries like 'xinjiang travel' and 'avatar mountains china' with Barrett's audience, while their content emphasizes regional culture more than Barrett's street-food-centric approach (content match 78%, search overlap 92%).

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#3

Joel and Emilia view on YouTube ▶

82% relevance

Subscribers 359K

Videos 325

Views 41.4M

Appearances 6

SERP 90%

Similarity 77%

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Both cover China travel experiences and urban life themes for an English-speaking audience, matching on 'china travel experiences' and 'life in urban china' while Barrett centers more on street scenes and food (content match 77%, search overlap 90%).

#4

中国街景 China Street View

81% relevance

Subscribers 183K

Videos 529

Views 45.2M

Appearances 6

SERP 75%

Similarity 85%

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Shares interest in first-tier Chinese cities and highways driving, attracting viewers searching 'first tier city china' and related logistics content; Barrett overlaps in location-focused travel but with a stronger food-tour angle (content match 85%, search overlap 75%).

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#5

Joshua Weissman view on YouTube ▶

78% relevance

Subscribers 10.5M

Videos 799

Views 2.4B

Appearances 5

SERP 81%

Similarity 75%

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Both appeal to audiences seeking 'china street food' and 'chinese cuisine review', but Barrett emphasizes street food travel while Weissman foregrounds recipe-focused culinary content, yielding strong search overlap (81%) with moderate content alignment (75%).

#6

CGTN view on YouTube ▶

76% relevance

Subscribers 5.0M

Videos 148K

Views 2.4B

Appearances 8

SERP 71%

Similarity 80%

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Overlaps in broad China-focused topics and audience reach via queries like 'western media china' and 'china education system', while CGTN offers news-/documentary-style content that diverges from Barrett's travel-food narrative (content 80%, search 71%).

Content Landscape

Discovered competitors include The Food Ranger (88% match) and Little Chinese Everywhere (83% match) as top contenders, with Joel and Emilia (82% match) also closely competing. They share overlapping queries such as china street food, chinese cuisine review, xinjiang travel, avatar mountains china, and china regional cultures. Barrett has 405K subscribers, while The Food Ranger dwarfs it with 5.9M subscribers, Little Chinese Everywhere has 732K, and Joel and Emilia have 359K, indicating Barrett competes with many larger channels on food, travel, and regional culture topics.

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#7	74%	Glopen	82%	5.8K	63%	3
#8	72%	Mark Wiens ▶	74%	11.6M	70%	8
#9	70%	Yun’s Food Adventure	78%	4.6K	59%	8
#10	70%	DaWen Food Quest	78%	203K	58%	8
#11	66%	South China Morning Post	63%	4.3M	72%	6
#12	65%	Max Chernov	66%	436K	62%	6
#13	64%	The Wall Street Journal ▶	72%	6.6M	51%	7
#14	64%	RMTransit ▶	70%	346K	53%	3
#15	62%	Driving in China	82%	18.3K	32%	3
#16	61%	Expedition East	84%	9.4K	27%	2
#17	61%	Because I'm Lizzy	81%	159K	31%	1
#18	60%	Shu Xu	83%	224K	27%	8
#19	60%	Monsieur Z	68%	281K	48%	2
#20	60%	marissainchina ▶	73%	615K	41%	5
#21	60%	Lifeder	78%	637K	33%	3
#22	60%	Living in China	83%	667K	26%	3
#23	59%	Mandarin Blueprint	71%	189K	42%	7
#24	58%	walking with Billion	77%	11K	28%	2
#25	58%	Fel Thommy	77%	367K	28%	2
#26	57%	Geography Now ▶	78%	3.9M	26%	2
#27	57%	Addis Vibes	78%	36.6K	25%	1
#28	57%	Ting-Daily life in China	73%	104K	32%	3
#29	57%	Civil Mentors ▶	76%	203K	28%	5
#30	57%	World Nomac	74%	814K	31%	1
#31	56%	China Observer	74%	801K	30%	5
#32	56%	New China TV	75%	2.4M	27%	5
#33	55%	Cyrus Janssen	75%	1.0M	26%	2
#34	55%	Wendover Productions ▶	74%	4.9M	27%	4
#35	54%	Zaza in China ▶	74%	258K	25%	5
#36	54%	BBC World Service ▶	67%	1.9M	34%	2
#37	53%	Luke Martin	71%	1.6M	25%	4
#38	52%	Adventures of Lauren & Jason	69%	23.5K	27%	2
#39	52%	The B1M ▶	69%	4.0M	26%	4
#40	51%	DW Planet A ▶	68%	765K	25%	1
#41	50%	Gulbahar Technical	64%	1.7M	29%	5
#42	49%	Loraine Lallave	65%	2.8K	25%	1
#43	48%	J.J. McCullough	63%	1M	25%	1
#44	47%	Zoe.languages	62%	845K	25%	1
#45	47%	Channel 4 News	62%	4.1M	25%	1
#46	47%	PBS NewsHour ▶	61%	5.2M	25%	1

Search Queries Used

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Barrett?

The Food Ranger — 88% match, 5.9M subscribers; Little Chinese Everywhere — 83% match, 732K subscribers; Joel and Emilia — 82% match, 359K subscribers. All three compete with Barrett by producing China-focused travel, culture, and lifestyle videos that explore Chinese cuisine, culture, and daily life, similar to Barrett's topics.

What type of content does Barrett make?

Barrett creates travel and culture videos about China, featuring topics like Xinjiang, Chinese street food, driving routes, and societal issues, with titles such as The HOTTEST Place in China.., The west is WRONG about Xinjiang, China, Driving China's Duku Highway, AMAZING Views & Dangerous Drivers., Xinjiang has the BEST Street Food in all of China. The channel averages about 37.9K views per video, and the content appears to be uploaded regularly (an inferred weekly upload cadence from the provided sample).

How do we determine which channels are similar to Barrett?

We analyze Barrett'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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