Ray Delahanty | CityNerd YouTube channel thumbnail

Subscribers 401K

Videos 234

Views 45.9M

Channels Like Ray Delahanty | CityNerd

Ray Delahanty | CityNerd covers urbanism, transportation, and city planning topics through thoughtful analysis of transit systems, urban design, and policy impacts. Content includes deep-dives and explainers on topics like walkability, transit quality, urban planning, and infrastructure, with a publication history since 2021 and videos averaging around 672.9K views each. The channel’s content mix leans toward analytical explorations of cities and transit, rather than short-form vlogs, with an upload cadence implied by recent videos and a focus on educational searches.

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87% relevance

Subscribers 50.7K

Videos 33

Views 4.4M

Appearances 38

SERP 100%

Similarity 78%

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High search overlap on urban planning and city transit queries (100% vs 87%), and strong content alignment on transit-focused city analysis (78%), indicating they attract a similar audience with transit-oriented topics.

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72% relevance

Subscribers 1.4M

Videos 139

Views 198.3M

Appearances 26

SERP 52%

Similarity 85%

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Shares many core queries (urban planning, walkability, cities by transit) and aligns closely in content emphasis on transit and walkability, yielding a 52% search overlap but an 85% content similarity, suggesting a similar audience with a slightly broader video approach.

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62% relevance

Subscribers 346K

Videos 782

Views 62.4M

Appearances 22

SERP 38%

Similarity 78%

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Significant overlap in city transit and urban transportation planning queries, with 38% search alignment but 78% content similarity, implying a shared audience that consumes transit-focused, theory-to-practice content in different formats.

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59% relevance

Subscribers 739K

Videos 200

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Appearances 11

SERP 26%

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Shared focus on urban transportation planning and transit-oriented development, supported by high content similarity (80%) and notable query overlap, signaling a closely competing niche with Ray’s channel.

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52% relevance

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Videos 4.1K

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Appearances 8

SERP 26%

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Covers urban planning and public transit quality in a broad technology-and-society context; 26% search overlap but 69% content similarity indicates similar topics delivered with a more expansive, mainstream lens.

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Both attract audiences around walkability concepts (walkable cities) with moderate search overlap (7%) but very high content similarity (82%), suggesting similar subject matter delivered in a distinct stylistic approach.

Content Landscape

Top competitors include Urban Planner Explained (87% match) and Not Just Bikes (72% match). These channels share overlapping queries with CityNerd such as urban planning, city transit, and cities by transit, indicating similar focuses on transit quality and urban design. RMTransit (62% match) also competes on city transit and urban transportation planning. City Beautiful (59% match) mirrors transit-oriented development and urban transportation planning themes. WIRED (52% match) appears as a larger media presence covering urban planning and public transit quality. Ray Delahanty | CityNerd has 401K subscribers, which is smaller than Not Just Bikes (1.4M), City Beautiful (739K), and WIRED (12.8M), but similar to RMTransit (346K) and Urban Planner Explained (50.7K). The overlapping queries across these competitors center on urban planning, transit, walkability, and city infrastructure.

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#18	49%	TED ▶	71%	27.2M	16%	8
#19	49%	Streetscapes ▶	77%	10.9K	6%	3
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Ray Delahanty | CityNerd?

Urban Planner Explained — 87% match, 50.7K subscribers; Not Just Bikes — 72% match, 1.4M subscribers; RMTransit — 62% match, 346K subscribers. All three compete in urbanism, transit, and city-planning content, focusing on transportation policy, city design, and sustainable urban living.

What type of content does Ray Delahanty | CityNerd make?

Ray Delahanty | CityNerd creates videos about transit, railfanning, urbanism, and transportation planning, with titles like Shockingly, They've Been Lying to Me About Chicago; The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid; Affordable Cities: 10 US Metro Areas With Underrated Livability, Walkability and Transit. Upload frequency appears to be multiple videos per week, and average views per video are around 673K.

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