Curious Droid

Subscribers 1.1M

Videos 272

Views 253.7M

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Curious Droid covers space, aerospace history, robotics, and related technology topics, delivering deep-dives and explanations that explore aerospace history, rockets, space exploration, and military technology. Content appears as in-depth videos rather than quick shorts, with a focus on explanatory storytelling and analysis, led by Paul Shillito. The channel publishes a high volume of videos with an average view per video around 4.1M, and has accumulated 1.1M subscribers and 253.7M total views since starting in 2011.

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Appearances 24

SERP 100%

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Top competitors by match strength are Scott Manley (88% match) and AiTelly (67% match). Scott Manley and Curious Droid share overlapping queries such as space propulsion, rocket propulsion history, and spaceflight engineering, while AiTelly aligns on rocket technology, military missiles, and hypersonic technology. Other notable overlaps include The Space Race (73% match) covering rocket technology and space propulsion. Curious Droid has 1.1M subscribers; Scott Manley has 1.8M, AiTelly has 1.9M, and The Space Race has 712K subscribers, indicating that Curious Droid competes with mid-to-large channels in the same niche but trails in subscriber count. All cited competitors show strong ties to space propulsion and rocket history queries.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Curious Droid?

Curious Droid's biggest competitors on YouTube are Scott Manley (88% match, 1.8M subscribers), The Space Race (73% match, 712K subscribers), and Classic Aerospace History (69% match, 41.3K subscribers). They share a focus on space, aviation, and aerospace history/science content similar to Curious Droid.

What type of content does Curious Droid make?

Curious Droid creates aerospace and science content, with videos like missile history, Moon and spaceflight topics, and aviation history. The channel has an average of about 4.1M views per video, and the description mentions uploads related to space, rockets, and related tech; however, the exact upload frequency per week is not specified.

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