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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.
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.
Notable search commonality around documentary making/filmmaking/storytelling (80%) and high content resemblance (84%), implying similar practical guidance and project-focused documentary tutorials.
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.
Moderate search alignment (54%) but strong content overlap (77%) around documentary scripting, preproduction, and BTS production, suggesting a similar production-oriented niche with some audience divergence.
Moderate search overlap (45%) but substantial content similarity (74%) due to coverage of documentary preproduction and templates, indicating a closely related instructional focus with broader framespace.
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| #7 | 56% | Film Courage ▶ | 77% | 793K | 26% | 10 |
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| #13 | 53% | Filmmakers Academy | 77% | 161K | 18% | 5 |
| #14 | 53% | Nur Niaz | 79% | 61.4K | 14% | 3 |
| #15 | 53% | Camp Films | 77% | 52.4K | 16% | 6 |
| #16 | 53% | Inside The Edit | 79% | 24.6K | 13% | 2 |
| #17 | 53% | Jakub Chlouba | 81% | 19.9K | 11% | 4 |
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| #20 | 51% | Clint Till | 80% | 1.9K | 9% | 1 |
| #21 | 51% | Matt Aitia | 78% | 34.3K | 11% | 3 |
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| #23 | 51% | The Video Consortium | 78% | 1.5K | 9% | 1 |
| #24 | 51% | Joshua Kirk | 73% | 13.8K | 17% | 6 |
| #25 | 50% | Sean Kitching | 78% | 375K | 9% | 3 |
| #26 | 50% | Lilly's Tech Tips | 74% | 75.5K | 15% | 2 |
| #27 | 50% | Scott Peters | 77% | 32.6K | 10% | 2 |
| #28 | 50% | Film It Yourself | 77% | 11.5K | 9% | 1 |
| #29 | 49% | Shutterstock Tutorials | 77% | 274K | 9% | 1 |
| #30 | 49% | Brian Hansen | 75% | 3.0K | 12% | 3 |
| #31 | 48% | BBC Earth ▶ | 73% | 14.3M | 12% | 4 |
| #32 | 48% | International Documentary Association (IDA) | 72% | 5.8K | 12% | 3 |
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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.
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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