Big Old Boats

Subscribers 202K

Videos 241

Views 40.3M

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Big Old Boats covers stories related to ships and maritime history, focusing on great ocean liners, shipwrecks, and historic naval events. Video topics appear as deep-dives into specific ships and disasters, with a descriptive, documentary-style approach. The channel uses keywords like Cunard Line, RMS Titanic, Queen Mary, and 1930s-1950s ships, and uploads various long-form investigations (e.g., ghost ships, rogue waves, shipwrecks) with an average of about 241 videos published since 2014, and viewer engagement reflected in a combined total of 40.3M views and 202K subscribers; posted content often runs long, indicating in-depth exploration rather than tutorials or vlogs.

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#1

Disasters At Sea

85% relevance

Subscribers 71.6K

Videos 49

Views 10.3M

Appearances 25

SERP 100%

Similarity 75%

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Similar audience and topic focus on sea disasters and shipwrecks, aligned by searches like 'shipwreck mystery cases' and 'psychology of sea disasters' (high search overlap), with a content style that differs from Big Old Boats but targets the same tragedy-focused narratives.

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Maritime Horrors view on YouTube

84% relevance

Subscribers 283K

Videos 56

Views 23.9M

Appearances 15

SERP 81%

Similarity 86%

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Shares an interest in maritime tragedies and shipwrecks (queries on great lakes shipwrecks and naval disasters); high search overlap but content emphasis on horror storytelling yields a slightly different presentation from Big Old Boats.

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Oceanliner Designs view on YouTube

75% relevance

Subscribers 909K

Videos 533

Views 297.1M

Appearances 13

SERP 66%

Similarity 81%

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Engages with rogue wave incidents and historic shipwrecks (queries and history-angle), providing a good search alignment yet a more design/engineering slant in content compared to Big Old Boats.

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National Geographic view on YouTube

72% relevance

Subscribers 25.9M

Videos 11K

Views 6.9B

Appearances 18

SERP 87%

Similarity 62%

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Attracts viewers searching for historic naval shipwrecks and Great Lakes storms, giving strong search alignment though NatGeo’s broader documentary style results in more informational depth than Big Old Boats.

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Top Fives view on YouTube

64% relevance

Subscribers 3.1M

Videos 2.3K

Views 1.3B

Appearances 8

SERP 48%

Similarity 74%

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Targets lists on lighthouse disasters and historic shipwrecks, creating solid search overlap but delivers a more list-driven, rapid-clip format versus Big Old Boats’ narrative-driven approach.

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Scary Interesting view on YouTube

63% relevance

Subscribers 1.9M

Videos 264

Views 311.5M

Appearances 10

SERP 41%

Similarity 78%

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Overlaps on historic shipwrecks and maritime tragedies with similar search interest, but content leans toward spooky storytelling, creating a different mood from Big Old Boats while sharing audience queries.

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Disasters At Sea — 85% match, 71.6K subscribers; overlapping queries include psychology of sea disasters and shipwreck mystery cases. Maritime Horrors — 84% match, 283K subscribers; overlaps include shipwrecks on great lakes, lighthouse disasters, maritime tragedies. Oceanliner Designs — 75% match, 909K subscribers; overlaps include rogue wave incidents, historic naval shipwrecks, maritime tragedies. National Geographic — 72% match, 25.9M subscribers; overlaps include shipwrecks on great lakes, historic naval shipwrecks, great lakes storms. Top Fives — 64% match, 3.1M subscribers; overlaps include lighthouse disasters, rogue wave incidents, historic naval shipwrecks. Big Old Boats is smaller than these larger channels (e.g., NatGeo 25.9M, Oceanliner Designs 909K) but aligns most closely with Disasters At Sea and Maritime Horrors on topics like shipwrecks, maritime disasters, and lighthouse/rogue wave incidents, indicating a competitive niche in deep-dive maritime history content.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Big Old Boats?

Big Old Boats' biggest competitors on YouTube are Disasters At Sea (85% match, 71.6K subscribers), Maritime Horrors (84% match, 283K subscribers), and Oceanliner Designs (75% match, 909K subscribers). These channels all focus on maritime history, ships, and ocean liner topics, sharing a strong emphasis on nautical disasters, shipwrecks, and classic ocean liners.

What type of content does Big Old Boats make?

Big Old Boats creates content about historic ships, ocean liners, and related maritime history, based on video titles such as Rogue Wave incidents, ghost ships, and lighthouse visuals. The channel appears to have an extremely low average views per video (0 views per video) and an unclear uploads frequency described as ~? uploads per week.

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