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Subscribers 10K

Videos 48

Views 423.0K

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Documentary Film Academy offers real-world filmmaking tips and behind-the-scenes content focused on planning, shooting, and editing documentaries. The channel emphasizes tutorials, step-by-step guides, and BTS from productions, targeting topics like documentary storytelling, scripting, lighting, and filmmaking techniques for beginners, with an average of about 11.8K views per video and regular uploads since 2013.

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88% relevance

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Views 24.3M

Appearances 30

SERP 100%

Similarity 81%

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High search overlap on documentary making/filmmaking/storytelling (100% searches) with substantial content alignment in documentary-focused tutorials and storytelling techniques (81%), indicating a shared audience and similar instructional style.

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86% relevance

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Videos 266

Views 12.2M

Appearances 31

SERP 92%

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Strong search alignment for documentary making/filmmaking/storytelling (92%) coupled with solid content similarity (81%), suggesting comparable how-to guidance and interview/story-driven documentary production approaches.

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83% relevance

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Videos 235

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Appearances 25

SERP 80%

Similarity 84%

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Notable search commonality around documentary making/filmmaking/storytelling (80%) and high content resemblance (84%), implying similar practical guidance and project-focused documentary tutorials.

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76% relevance

Subscribers 17.9K

Videos 36

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Appearances 19

SERP 64%

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Good search overlap on documentary making/filmmaking/storytelling (64%) with high content similarity (83%), indicating parallel instructional content and subject matter, though slightly less search visibility.

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68% relevance

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Views 6.7M

Appearances 18

SERP 54%

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Appearances 12

SERP 45%

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Discovered competitors include Mark Bone (88% match, 372K subscribers) and Luc Forsyth (86% match, 168K subscribers), who share overlapping queries such as documentary making, documentary filmmaking, and documentary storytelling. The top two competitors align closely with the channel’s core topics and attract similar search interest; Mark Bone has a significantly larger audience than Documentary Film Academy, while Luc Forsyth also exceeds it in subscribers. Additional competitors Austin Meyer (83% match, 16.9K subscribers) and Mark Johansson (76% match, 17.9K subscribers) also overlap on documentary making and storytelling, reinforcing the same topic space. Alex Zarfati (68% match, 128K subscribers) connects via documentary scripting, preproduction, and BTS production. All identified channels compete for the same documentary-focused search queries such as documentary making, documentary filmmaking, and documentary storytelling.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Documentary Film Academy?

Mark Bone — 88% match, 372K subscribers; Luc Forsyth — 86% match, 168K subscribers; Austin Meyer — 83% match, 16.9K subscribers. They are all documentary filmmaking-focused creators with content centered on techniques, tips, and industry insights, similar to Documentary Film Academy.

What type of content does Documentary Film Academy make?

Documentary Film Academy produces tutorials and insights about documentary filmmaking, including topics like how to shoot a documentary, writing a documentary script, and solo filmmaking. Upload frequency is about 0.1 videos per week, with recent videos ranging from 454 to 4.2K views, and an average of 11.8K views per video.

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