BENOFTHEWEEK

Subscribers 9.0M

Videos 350

Views 2.9B

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BENOFTHEWEEK covers a variety of bold and exploratory videos, including challenges, social experiments, religion and culture explorations, and unconventional experiments, as indicated by titles like i tried every 'strange addiction', I Tried Every Religion, and i crossed america by train. The channel leans into vlogs and experiential content with a humor-driven, game-like style, supported by keywords such as benoftheweek, ben of the week, and benoftheweek cactus. It publishes content from an audience around 9M subscribers with an average of roughly 2.4M views per video across a catalog of about 350 published works, and has been active since April 27, 2013.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to BENOFTHEWEEK?

Friday Beers — 84% match, 232K subscribers; Plain & Paint — 78% match, 43.2K subscribers; Field Days — 74% match, 2M subscribers. They share a focus on personal experimentation and lifestyle-themed content, similar to BENOFTHEWEEK's exploratory and challenge-oriented videos.

What type of content does BENOFTHEWEEK make?

BENOFTHEWEEK creates documentary-style, challenge, and experiment videos such as drunk ghost hunting, trying religions, joining a cult, and trying a looksmaxxing program. The channel averages about 2.4M views per video and has around 9M subscribers, with multiple uploads per week.

How do we determine which channels are similar to BENOFTHEWEEK?

We analyze BENOFTHEWEEK'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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