We found 50 YouTube channels similar to CGTN
High search overlap (china daily news) and strong overall match (87%), indicating they target similar audiences with Chinese-centric news, though China Daily's content is slightly less aligned (79%) in style compared to CGTN.
Similar to CGTN in covering China international and economy topics (queries: china international news, china economy news) and cleantech china, yielding a 75% match with balanced search/content alignment (75% search, 75% content).
Shares global China-focused coverage and international analysis (queries: global news china, international news analysis) resulting in a 74% match with broad search overlap (80% search) and moderately aligned content (70%).
Competes on China economy, energy tech, and outlook (queries: china economy news, energy technology china, china economic outlook) producing a 72% match with solid search (71%) and content (73%) overlap.
Covers china news and economy with belt and road developments (queries: china news, china economy news, belt and road developments), giving a 72% match driven by strong search overlap (74%) and content similarity (71%).
Focuses on china policy analysis and economy news (queries: china news, china policy analysis, china economy news), yielding a 72% match with high search overlap (76%) but moderate content alignment (69%).
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| Rank | Relevance | Channel | Similarity | Subscribers | SERP | Appearances |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #7 | 71% | Times Now World | 73% | 1.1M | 68% | 8 |
| #8 | 71% | WION ▶ | 70% | 10.4M | 73% | 11 |
| #9 | 67% | BBC News | 71% | 19.4M | 60% | 15 |
| #10 | 64% | Geo News ▶ | 74% | 20.6M | 49% | 6 |
| #11 | 62% | CGTN America | 68% | 820K | 53% | 11 |
| #12 | 61% | Civil Mentors ▶ | 75% | 203K | 41% | 5 |
| #13 | 61% | DRM News ▶ | 75% | 764K | 39% | 6 |
| #14 | 57% | Foreign Affairs | 70% | 120K | 39% | 8 |
| #15 | 57% | South China Morning Post | 71% | 4.3M | 37% | 9 |
| #16 | 56% | Firstpost | 70% | 9.4M | 36% | 9 |
| #17 | 56% | Barrett ▶ | 80% | 402K | 21% | 2 |
| #18 | 56% | CGTN Europe | 70% | 2.6M | 35% | 2 |
| #19 | 56% | CNBC Television ▶ | 72% | 3.3M | 31% | 4 |
| #20 | 56% | Bloomberg Originals | 72% | 5.0M | 30% | 4 |
| #21 | 55% | The Wall Street Journal ▶ | 74% | 6.6M | 26% | 4 |
| #22 | 55% | Asia Society | 71% | 441K | 31% | 5 |
| #23 | 54% | CGTN Africa | 79% | 1.1M | 17% | 2 |
| #24 | 54% | Bloomberg Podcasts | 72% | 443K | 28% | 4 |
| #25 | 54% | Energi Media | 69% | 53.9K | 31% | 4 |
| #26 | 54% | 2 and 20 | 67% | 228K | 33% | 5 |
| #27 | 53% | CNA Insider ▶ | 71% | 2.5M | 27% | 7 |
| #28 | 53% | TLDR News Global | 71% | 1.1M | 26% | 3 |
| #29 | 53% | Global Lens | 73% | 14.8K | 22% | 4 |
| #30 | 53% | New China TV | 75% | 2.4M | 19% | 4 |
| #31 | 53% | FactoPiaX | 73% | 7.1K | 22% | 2 |
| #32 | 52% | Formosa News (民視英語新聞) | 73% | 105K | 21% | 2 |
| #33 | 52% | Shanghai and I | 73% | 6.3K | 21% | 1 |
| #34 | 51% | NBC News ▶ | 69% | 11.8M | 25% | 3 |
| #35 | 51% | The Financial Express | 73% | 308K | 19% | 2 |
| #36 | 51% | World Affairs by Unacademy | 73% | 4.2M | 18% | 5 |
| #37 | 51% | Lifeder | 72% | 637K | 19% | 3 |
| #38 | 51% | Rise of Asia | 71% | 187K | 20% | 2 |
| #39 | 50% | PBS NewsHour ▶ | 69% | 5.2M | 23% | 2 |
| #40 | 50% | The Diplomat | 68% | 34.6K | 24% | 4 |
| #41 | 50% | The International Institute for Strategic Studies | 66% | 44.1K | 26% | 5 |
| #42 | 50% | Geopolitical Economy Report | 68% | 699K | 23% | 2 |
| #43 | 48% | TRT World Now | 67% | 720K | 21% | 1 |
| #44 | 48% | Manish Talk's | 69% | 1.3K | 17% | 2 |
| #45 | 48% | Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung | 68% | 33K | 17% | 1 |
| #46 | 48% | TED ▶ | 68% | 27.2M | 17% | 1 |
| #47 | 47% | New Economic Thinking | 62% | 335K | 24% | 4 |
| #48 | 46% | METRO TV | 62% | 11.1M | 23% | 2 |
| #49 | 45% | Vasu Concept | 61% | 807K | 21% | 1 |
| #50 | 43% | Red Pen | 58% | 43.2K | 21% | 1 |
CGTN's biggest competitors on YouTube are China Daily 中国日报 (87% match, 2.7M subscribers), FRANCE 24 English (75% match, 3.5M subscribers), and Global News (74% match, 4.9M subscribers). They share as a common focus on international and national news coverage, delivering up-to-date reporting and analysis on global events.
CGTN creates news-focused content, as indicated by titles covering geopolitical events, ship tracking, conflict coverage, and live streams. The channel uploads videos with an average of about 3.6K views per video and shows a frequency described as roughly ? uploads per week, evidenced by multiple recent uploads and ongoing content production.
We analyze CGTN'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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