Cooking the Books

Subscribers 75.3K

Videos 343

Views 8.8M

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Cooking the Books explores vintage cookbooks and retro recipes, trying out 'new' (to them) vintage dishes and sharing cookbook reviews, hauls, and nostalgic cooking content. The channel presents tutorials and cooking demonstrations alongside reviews and hauls, with a cozy, grandma-like vibe, and uploads about 1.4 videos per week, averaging roughly 17.7K views per video.

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#1

Vintage Lifestyle USA

91% relevance

Subscribers 258K

Videos 909

Views 51.3M

Appearances 88

SERP 100%

Similarity 85%

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Shares a strong search overlap on vintage cookbook recipes and 1950s recipes, but the content is highly aligned to retro cooking with a 85% similarity, indicating a closely related style and subject matter.

#2

Vintage Life of USA

61% relevance

Subscribers 75.8K

Videos 346

Views 8.5M

Appearances 24

SERP 26%

Similarity 85%

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Has moderate overall match (61%), with high content similarity (85%) around old-fashioned desserts and vintage meal ideas, suggesting similar audience and retro culinary focus but less alignment on current searches.

#3

Old Glory Days

56% relevance

Subscribers 121K

Videos 203

Views 18.5M

Appearances 10

SERP 13%

Similarity 85%

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Relates to Cooking the Books through substantial overlap in queries like 1950s and 1970s recipes, and content aligns 85%, indicating a shared retro cookbook niche with strong audience interest.

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55% relevance

Subscribers 3.1M

Videos 4.8K

Views 695.5M

Appearances 9

SERP 17%

Similarity 81%

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Shares interest in old-fashioned meals and classic comfort foods via search overlap, but content similarity is solid at 81%, showing cooking basics and nostalgic recipes align closely yet differ in broader recipe scope.

#5

Nostalgia Calling

55% relevance

Subscribers 20.5K

Videos 65

Views 2.6M

Appearances 13

SERP 11%

Similarity 84%

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Targets 1950s recipes and forgotten cookbook recipes with 11% search overlap but high content similarity (84%), implying a similar retro recipe emphasis but a smaller shared search footprint.

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America Nostalgia

54% relevance

Subscribers 44.1K

Videos 468

Views 7.4M

Appearances 11

SERP 14%

Similarity 80%

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Engages around 1950s recipes and vintage mini meals, with a 14% search overlap and 80% content similarity, indicating a comparable retro kitchen focus but limited keyword overlap.

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Discovered competitors include Vintage Lifestyle USA (91% match) and Vintage Life of USA (61% match) as top rivals. Allrecipes (55% match) also competes, along with Nostalgia Calling (55% match). The common thread is a focus on vintage or retro recipes and related cooking content, overlapping queries like vintage cookbook recipes, 1950s and 1970s recipes, and old-fashioned desserts. Cooking the Books has 75.3K subscribers, while Vintage Lifestyle USA leads with 258K subscribers and Allrecipes vastly exceeds them with 3.1M subscribers, highlighting size differences but shared topic space across the vintage cooking and classic recipe domains.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Cooking the Books?

Vintage Lifestyle USA — 91% match, 258K subscribers; Vintage Life of USA — 61% match, 75.8K subscribers; Old Glory Days — 56% match, 121K subscribers. All three channels focus on vintage or nostalgic lifestyle content, including vintage cookbooks, retro recipes, and vintage-themed cooking or hauls.

What type of content does Cooking the Books make?

Cooking the Books creates content centered on vintage cookbooks and retro recipes, reviewing and cooking from old recipe books, and doing vintage cookbook hauls. The channel uploads about 1.4 videos per week, with recent videos averaging around 17.7K views per video.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Cooking the Books?

We analyze Cooking the Books'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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