fern

Subscribers 4.7M

Videos 112

Views 460.5M

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fern covers armchair documentaries and world history investigations, diving into political, economic, and geopolitical topics with a documentary-style approach. Content includes deep-dives into historical and contemporary power structures, controversial leadership histories, and crime and corruption themes, with a cadence of almost weekly uploads and an average of about 2.7 million views per video.

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DW Documentary view on YouTube

84% relevance

Subscribers 6.4M

Videos 1.5K

Views 923.4M

Appearances 16

SERP 100%

Similarity 73%

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Shares a strong overlap with fern on political, crime, corruption, and international geopolitics queries (high search 100% and 84% overall match), aligning in topic focus and audience interests.

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TED-Ed view on YouTube

71% relevance

Subscribers 22.4M

Videos 2.3K

Views 4.5B

Appearances 8

SERP 70%

Similarity 71%

dictatorship histories human rights investigations controversial leadership histories

Aligns with fern in covering world politics, dictatorships, and human rights histories (queries like dictatorship histories and controversial leadership histories), though their format differs in instructional animation style.

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FRONTLINE PBS | Official view on YouTube

70% relevance

Subscribers 3.4M

Videos 1.2K

Views 929.7M

Appearances 13

SERP 64%

Similarity 73%

political documentaries crime and corruption documentaries economic influence documentaries

Similarity stems from political, crime/corruption, and economic influence topics (high search alignment and content overlap), appealing to fern’s audience interested in investigative evidence-based documentaries.

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World View - Documentary view on YouTube

66% relevance

Subscribers 16.9K

Videos 55

Views 2.5M

Appearances 4

SERP 45%

Similarity 79%

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Shares international geopolitics focus (queries) with fern and demonstrates high content overlap, indicating similar documentary storytelling on global affairs.

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DW News view on YouTube

64% relevance

Subscribers 6.2M

Videos 45K

Views 3.1B

Appearances 6

SERP 48%

Similarity 74%

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Connects via hidden power structures, political corruption, and economic sanctions impact queries, matching fern’s interest in power dynamics and governance.

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FINAiUS view on YouTube

63% relevance

Subscribers 746K

Videos 61

Views 60.3M

Appearances 8

SERP 50%

Similarity 72%

political documentaries world history investigations international geopolitics documentaries

Similar audience drawn to political documentaries and international geopolitics, with overlap in world history investigations, yielding parallel topic exploration.

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Content Landscape

Top competitors include DW Documentary (84% match) and TED-Ed (71% match) as well as FRONTLINE PBS (70% match). They share overlapping queries such as political documentaries, crime and corruption documentaries, and international geopolitics documentaries, indicating a similar focus on investigative and contextual analyses. DW Documentary has 6.4M subscribers, TED-Ed has 22.4M subscribers, and FRONTLINE PBS has 3.4M subscribers, placing fern behind the larger TED-Ed and around the scale of FRONTLINE while DW Documentary is a closer subscriber-sized peer. The common thread across these channels is probing political power, historical events, and governance-related topics that align with fern’s search queries.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to fern?

fern's biggest YouTube competitors are DW Documentary — 84% match, 6.4M subscribers; TED-Ed — 71% match, 22.4M subscribers; FRONTLINE PBS | Official — 70% match, 3.4M subscribers. They share a focus on informative, documentary-style content that covers history, politics, science, and current events.

What type of content does fern make?

fern creates documentary-style videos about history, politics, and controversial topics, as indicated by titles like How Iran’s Leader Was Killed and Why the U.S. President Is Almost Impossible to Kill. The channel averages about 2.7M views per video and uploads roughly 1.0 times per week.

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