Channels Like Crayon Capital

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Crayon Capital
Subscribers 182K
Videos 18
Views 12.4M

Crayon Capital covers big finance topics through deep-dives and explainers, as suggested by titles like The Wolf of Wall Street Scam Explained Like You're 5, The Great Depression Explained Like You’re 5, and How Jeff Bezos Actually Built Amazon. The channel’s content style appears to be educational explainers and history-driven analyses, often presented in a tutorial-like or explanatory format, with some lighter or narrative elements. It publishes around 0.4 uploads per week, and videos average about 17 minutes with roughly 768.4K views per video.

Content Landscape

Top competitors include CrashCourse (81% match) and TED-Ed (69% match) as the closest peers, with overlapping queries such as markets and economics, monetary policy history, wealth inequality (CrashCourse) and investing history, financial markets explained, economic bubbles (TED-Ed). Financial Historian (73% match) and EconplusDal (72% match) also compete on similar topics like financial history, economic history, global finance and financial markets explained. Jacob Clifford (66% match) similarly targets markets and economics, monetary policy history, and global economies cycles. Crayon Capital has 182K subscribers, far smaller than CrashCourse (16.9M) and TED-Ed (22.4M) but larger than Financial Historian (154K) and EconplusDal (378K) in some cases, highlighting a wide gap in audience size with the top competitors. All noted competitors share queries around financial history, economic history, markets and economics, and monetary policy history.

Similar Channels

We found 43 YouTube channels similar to Crayon Capital

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#1 CrashCourse

81% relevance

Subscribers 16.9M
Videos 1.6K
Views 2.2B
Appearances 14
SERP 100%
Similarity 68%
markets and economics monetary policy history wealth inequality

Both target broad audiences with economics and history topics, aligning on searches like markets and economics and monetary policy history, while CrashCourse’s content style diverges (81% match due to high search overlap but 68% content similarity).

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#2 Financial Historian

73% relevance

Subscribers 154K
Videos 318
Views 7.7M
Appearances 12
SERP 63%
Similarity 79%
financial history economic history global finance

Shares an emphasis on financial and economic history and global finance, with strong alignment in queries like financial history and global finance, producing a 63% search overlap but higher content similarity (79%).

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#3 EconplusDal

72% relevance

Subscribers 378K
Videos 738
Views 68.3M
Appearances 13
SERP 82%
Similarity 65%
financial markets explained capital markets global economies cycles

Cites financial markets and capital markets as core topics, matching Crayon Capital on queries about markets and global economic cycles, yielding high search alignment (82%) but moderate content alignment (65%).

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#4 TED-Ed

69% relevance

Subscribers 22.4M
Videos 2.3K
Views 4.5B
Appearances 10
SERP 69%
Similarity 69%
investing history financial markets explained economic bubbles

Both address investing history and economic phenomena in an educational format, with solid query overlap on investing history and financial markets explained, yet TED-Ed’s content approach only partially overlaps (69% overall) compared to Crayon Capital.

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#5 Jacob Clifford

66% relevance

Subscribers 1.1M
Videos 550
Views 132.3M
Appearances 10
SERP 63%
Similarity 67%
markets and economics monetary policy history global economies cycles

Focuses on markets, economics, monetary policy history, and cycles, mirroring Crayon Capital’s topics with similar search intent (63%); content similarity is close (67%), indicating aligned audience and style but not identical delivery.

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#6 The Wall Street Journal

64% relevance

Subscribers 6.6M
Videos 28K
Views 2.5B
Appearances 7
SERP 47%
Similarity 75%
economic bubbles bond market dynamics inflation and deflation history

Covers economic bubbles, inflation history, and bond market dynamics that Crayon Capital also touches on, yielding substantial search overlap (47%) and strong content alignment (75%), though WSJ’s format is more news-centric.

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Search Queries Used

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Crayon Capital?

Crayon Capital's biggest competitors on YouTube are CrashCourse (16.9M subscribers, 81% match), Financial Historian (154K subscribers, 73% match), and EconplusDal (378K subscribers, 72% match). They share a focus on educational or historical/economic topics presented in an explainers style, appealing to audiences interested in finance, history, and economics.

What type of content does Crayon Capital make?

Crayon Capital creates explainer content about finance and economics, as evidenced by video titles like Rockefeller: The First Confirmed Billionaire (And How He Did It) and Why Humans Went Crazy for Gold?, with an average of 768.4K views per video. The channel uploads about 0.4 times per week, indicating roughly 2 videos every 5 weeks.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Crayon Capital?

We analyze Crayon Capital'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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