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Subscribers 40K

Videos 809

Views 6.2M

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Helpful Professor Explains! offers university-level mini-lectures across Education Studies, Psychology, and related topics, with videos derived from blog articles. The channel uses tutorials and concise explainers, publishing since 2020, with an average of about 60.9K views per video (based on recent data) across 809 videos and 6.2M total views from 40K subscribers.

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SERP 100%

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Top competitors by match strength are TEDx Talks (79% match) and Teachings in Education (66% match). They share overlapping queries such as education studies, psychology education, constructivism in education, and cognitive development theories. Sprouts (60% match) also competes on psychology education and active learning techniques. Helpful Professor Explains! has a much smaller subscriber base (40K) compared with TEDx Talks (44.2M) and Edutopia (268K) and Teachings in Education (281K), while still aligning on key topics like differentiated instruction, student-centered learning, and pedagogy. The shared queries include education studies, psychology education, cognitive development theories, and metacognition theory, positioning these competitors as direct search rivals in related educational content.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Helpful Professor Explains!?

TEDx Talks — 44.2M subscribers (79% match), Teachings in Education — 281K subscribers (66% match), Sprouts — 1.9M subscribers (60% match). All three channels focus on educational content and explanations, aligning with Helpful Professor Explains!'s aim to explain educational psychology and related topics.

What type of content does Helpful Professor Explains! make?

Helpful Professor Explains! creates educational explainer content focused on psychology and education topics, based on video titles such as Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development and Piaget vs Vygotsky. The channel appears to upload multiple videos with high view counts, with an average around 60.9K views per video. Upload frequency is noted as ~uploads per week, though a precise number is not provided.

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