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Genius of Outliers
Subscribers 2.9K
Videos 12
Views 211.1K

Channels Like Genius of Outliers

Genius of Outliers covers topics related to systems thinking, organizational design, and learning organizations, as evidenced by video titles focusing on Russell Ackoff’s thinking, idealized design, and problem solving. The channel appears to deliver long-form, instructional content and deep-dives, with occasional lectures and talks, and publishes content at a cadence averaging multiple long videos per week, resulting in roughly 17.3K views per video and average durations around 53 minutes.

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#1

81% relevance

Subscribers 44.2M
Videos 255K
Views 8.8B
Appearances 26
SERP 100%
Similarity 68%
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High search overlap (systems thinking, learning organization, social systems thinking) suggests audience similarity to Genius of Outliers, and despite lower content alignment (68%), TEDx Talks still shares the same thematic interest in systems thinking and organizational learning.

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MIT OpenCourseWare YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 6.2M
Videos 7.9K
Views 523.8M
Appearances 15
SERP 58%
Similarity 72%
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Strong alignment on the topics of systems thinking, problem solving, and social systems thinking yields a solid audience overlap, with content similarity high (72%), indicating similar educational, theory-driven explorations as Genius of Outliers.

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#3

56% relevance

Subscribers 152K
Videos 5.9K
Views 33.2M
Appearances 14
SERP 39%
Similarity 67%
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Shared queries around organizational design and learning (learning organization, organizational learning) indicate overlapping interest in how organizations develop and adapt, though content is somewhat more applied than Genius of Outliers (67% content).

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#4

55% relevance

Subscribers 291K
Videos 202
Views 11.2M
Appearances 6
SERP 27%
Similarity 73%
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You share audience interest in systems thinking and related training, with high content emphasis on systems thinking concepts to match Genius of Outliers’ educational focus, despite a modest search overlap.

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Business School 101 YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 117K
Videos 421
Views 9.0M
Appearances 7
SERP 30%
Similarity 71%
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Overlap on organizational design and innovation in organizations points to a similar niche audience, with strong content alignment (71%) even though search overlap is moderate (30%).

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#6

54% relevance

Subscribers 1.9M
Videos 226
Views 163.2M
Appearances 5
SERP 29%
Similarity 72%
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Similar emphasis on learning organizations and organizational learning indicates a common educational angle, with a solid content similarity (72%) that mirrors Genius of Outliers’ style, despite only moderate search alignment.

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Content Landscape

Competitors identified: TEDx Talks (81% match) and MIT OpenCourseWare (66% match) share overlapping queries such as systems thinking, learning organization, and social systems thinking, with substantially larger audiences (44.2M and 6.2M subscribers respectively) than Genius of Outliers. GreggU (56% match) also competes on organizational design, learning organization, and organizational learning with 152K subscribers, while Vicky Zhao (55% match) and Business School 101 (55% match) target similar topics like systems thinking, social systems thinking, and organizational design with 291K and 117K subscribers respectively. Genius of Outliers has 2.9K subscribers, placing it well behind these competitors in size, but it competes for the same queries and audiences interested in design theory, problem solving, and learning organization concepts.

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#10 51% Organization Design Videos 74% 4.4K 17% 3
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#18 49% System Dynamics Society 73% 6.2K 12% 4
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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Genius of Outliers?

TEDx Talks — 44.2M subscribers (81% match), MIT OpenCourseWare — 6.2M subscribers (66% match), GreggU — 152K subscribers (56% match). All are education-focused channels that provide knowledge-based videos and lectures across topics, similar to Genius of Outliers.

What type of content does Genius of Outliers make?

Genius of Outliers produces videos focused on systems thinking, design, and the work of Russell Ackoff, as evidenced by titles like Russell Ackoff - U.S. Navy two day training in Thinking, Understanding, and Learning and Idealized Design, Systems Thinking, and a Model for OutlierInnovation. Uploads appear to be frequent, with an average of about 17.3K views per video across recent uploads.

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