Channels Like Hank Green

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Hank Green
Subscribers 3M
Videos 1.1K
Views 1.4B

Hank Green covers science communication and education topics, including mental health, learning disabilities, economics, recycling science, and broader science explanations. The channel features a mix of long-form explorations and educational takes evidenced by titles like 'Why the Economy Hasn't Crashed Yet,' 'There's an Actual Reason You Can't Recycle Plastic,' and 'My Childhood Learning Disability,' with a stated average of ~1M views per video and an activity rate of about 1.6 uploads per week since joining in 2009.

Content Landscape

Top competitors by match strength are TEDx Talks (81% match) and Economics Explained (60% match). TEDx Talks aligns with Hank Green through overlapping queries like science communication, pop science education, and science outreach, while Economics Explained aligns via economics explained, energy and economy, and econ science basics. Sprouts (52% match) and Reactions (52% match) also compete on related queries such as educational science concepts and plastic recycling science, respectively. Hank Green has 3M subscribers, while TEDx Talks has 44.2M and Economics Explained 2.8M, indicating a large size difference but overlapping topical search space among science education, economics education, and recycling science.

Similar Channels

We found 49 YouTube channels similar to Hank Green

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#1 TEDx Talks

81% relevance

Subscribers 44.2M
Videos 255K
Views 8.8B
Appearances 49
SERP 100%
Similarity 68%
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TEDx Talks covers a range of TEDx-style talks and lectures focused on education, design, entertainment, and ideas worth spreading. The content appears as long-form talks and educational presentations drawn from independently produced TEDx events, with recent videos spanning topics like oncology insights, belonging, memory and identity, and education in the AI era. The channel publishes a high volume of content (approximately 255,000 videos published historically), and viewers see an average of about 900 views per video, with an overall strong global presence since joining June 23, 2009.

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#2 Economics Explained

60% relevance

Subscribers 2.8M
Videos 420
Views 357.1M
Appearances 19
SERP 38%
Similarity 75%
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#3 Sprouts

52% relevance

Subscribers 1.9M
Videos 226
Views 163.2M
Appearances 4
SERP 18%
Similarity 75%
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Sprouts creates educational cartoons that explain complex ideas in simple language, covering unschooing, homeschooling, parenting, psychology, economics, neuroscience, and related learning topics. The channel produces tutorials and explanatory videos that blend educational storytelling, with a steady output of videos (226 published since 2014) and average views around 18.3K per video, typically around 4 minutes long.

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#4 Reactions

52% relevance

Subscribers 785K
Videos 573
Views 193.1M
Appearances 2
SERP 10%
Similarity 80%
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#5 Homeschool Pop

52% relevance

Subscribers 1.6M
Videos 496
Views 239.3M
Appearances 7
SERP 24%
Similarity 71%
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#6 SciShow

51% relevance

Subscribers 8.4M
Videos 4.1K
Views 2.2B
Appearances 3
SERP 10%
Similarity 78%
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#11 48% CrashCourse 71% 16.9M 15% 8
#12 48% Hot Mess 72% 98.9K 11% 3
#13 48% It's AumSum Time 69% 4.6M 15% 11
#14 48% Professor Dave Explains 72% 4.2M 11% 3
#15 47% Edutopia 73% 268K 8% 4
#16 47% Explainly 69% 1.4K 14% 2
#17 46% TED-Ed 72% 22.4M 8% 6
#18 46% GBH Forum Network 71% 107K 9% 2
#19 46% Carnegie Mellon University 70% 165K 10% 3
#20 45% American Psychological Association 69% 106K 8% 1
#21 45% Peak Prosperity 69% 572K 8% 1
#22 45% Stanford 70% 2.1M 8% 4
#23 45% Factora 68% 193K 10% 3
#24 45% World Economic Forum 70% 1.1M 7% 3
#25 45% Sustainability Illustrated 68% 74.7K 10% 2
#26 45% Big Bang Academy Kids 69% 124K 7% 3
#27 45% Global Health with Greg Martin 67% 203K 11% 4
#28 45% Peekaboo Kidz 70% 7.3M 7% 7
#29 45% SciShow Kids 70% 1.6M 7% 3
#30 44% Stockholm Resilience Centre 70% 9.3K 7% 1
#31 44% 3M Canada 66% 34.5K 12% 3
#32 43% MIT Video Productions 68% 99.9K 7% 1
#33 43% The Engineering Mindset 67% 4.3M 7% 1
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#37 42% Study.com 66% 128K 8% 3
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#39 42% simpleshow 65% 27.4K 7% 2
#40 42% NPTEL IIT Kharagpur 65% 358K 7% 1
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Hank Green?

TEDx Talks — 81% match, 44.2M subscribers; Economics Explained — 60% match, 2.8M subscribers; Sprouts — 52% match, 1.9M subscribers. All three channels have high viewership and produce educational or explanatory content similar in educational focus to Hank Green, differing in scale and format.

What type of content does Hank Green make?

Hank Green creates educational and explanatory content, as evidenced by video titles like 'This is Going to be Very Messy', 'My Childhood Learning Disability', 'Why does Everyone Hate the BEST FISH?', 'I Licked a Nintendo Switch Cartridge', and 'Whatever's Wrong with Me, it's Working.' The channel averages about 1M views per video and uploads roughly 1.6 times per week.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Hank Green?

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