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Dan woolley
Subscribers 1.7M
Videos 3.4K
Views 1.8B

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Dan woolley covers history and geography-focused content, with video titles suggesting deep-dives into ancient empires, civilizations, flags, country histories, and geographic puzzles. The channel appears to lean into long-form explorations and challenge-style content (e.g., ‘The Largest Army's In HISTORY,’ ‘The Hardest GeoGuessr Challenge…,’ ‘Find The Hidden Flags Inside Of Other Flags…’) with an educational yet entertaining style. Uploads average around 15 minutes per video, and the channel publishes roughly 6.4 uploads per week, with recent videos often receiving in the thousands to tens of thousands of views (e.g., 99K, 74K, 18K). The channel has 1.7M subscribers and 1.8B total views, and is active since February 2, 2015, from the United Kingdom.

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83% relevance

Subscribers 15.2M
Videos 11K
Views 5.0B
Appearances 15
SERP 100%
Similarity 71%
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Shares a strong audience for ancient civilizations and lost world myths (queries like ancient history of civilizations, lost worlds civilizations) and demonstrates high search match (100%) with substantial content overlap (71%), aligning with Dan Woolley’s civilization-focused storytelling.

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Subscribers 1.5M
Videos 45
Views 209.1M
Appearances 14
SERP 87%
Similarity 69%
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Targets the same niche of ancient empires and civilizations declines (queries: ancient empires collapse, ancient history of civilizations, lost worlds civilizations) with high search alignment (87%) and solid content similarity (69%), similar to Dan Woolley’s collapse-and-civilization narratives.

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Subscribers 25.9M
Videos 11K
Views 6.9B
Appearances 14
SERP 80%
Similarity 72%
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Covers ancient empires, civilizations, and popular myths, yielding strong search overlap (80%) and content similarity (72%), placing it in a parallel space to Dan Woolley’s historical exploration with a more mainstream science/education slant.

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#4

71% relevance

Subscribers 1.7K
Videos 9
Views 108.6K
Appearances 4
SERP 69%
Similarity 73%
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Focuses on lists and overviews of great civilizations, aligning on queries like great civilizations list/overview, with moderate-to-high search (69%) and content similarity (73%), indicating a shared interest but potentially different depth and style.

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Appearances 11
SERP 55%
Similarity 74%
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Addresses historical empires downfall and great civilizations lists with notable content overlap (74%) despite lower search alignment (55%), indicating a similar topic scope with some divergence in audience discovery.

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Videos 179
Views 52.5M
Appearances 4
SERP 46%
Similarity 77%
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Covers historical empires downfall and myths, with decent search alignment (46% in search) but high content similarity (77%), suggesting a comparable subject matter delivered in a myth/history-leaning format.

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Top competitors by match strength are HISTORY (83% match) and Fall of Civilizations (76% match). National Geographic (75% match) also closely aligns with overlapping queries. These channels compete on similar topics such as ancient empires collapse, ancient history of civilizations, popular civilization myths, and lost worlds civilizations. Dan woolley’s audience intersects with these channels’ audiences through geohistory and civilization-focused searches, though Dan woolley’s audience is smaller (1.7M subscribers) than HISTORY (15.2M) and National Geographic (25.9M), with Fall of Civilizations at 1.5M. The shared queries indicate a common interest in historical civilizations and their declines, as well as myth versus history themes.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Dan woolley?

HISTORY — 83% match, 15.2M subscribers; Fall of Civilizations — 76% match, 1.5M subscribers; National Geographic — 75% match, 25.9M subscribers. The top competitors share a focus on historical and educational content, with similar audience interests in history and world events.

What type of content does Dan woolley make?

Dan woolley creates history and fact-based content, as suggested by video titles like 'The Largest Army's In HISTORY - 1 AD to 2026' and 'Find The Hidden Flags Inside Of Other Flags...'. He posts around 6.4 uploads per week, with an average of about 21K views per video.

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