We found 42 YouTube channels similar to History of Simple Things
Both target audiences curious about how things are made and the science behind production (search overlap 100% vs content 73%), explaining the science of making objects and their manufacturing processes.
Shares interest in invention history and material origins (search overlap 79%), with similar themes about the history of materials, though TED-Ed often features animated lessons rather than step-by-step production demos.
Aligns on industrial and manufacturing processes (search overlap 68%), and history of materials (content 74%), delivering process-focused explanations that echo History of Simple Things’ material-and-production interests.
Overlap exists in engineering basics and history of technology (search overlap 73%), plus history of manufacturing content (content 66%), sharing broad educational exploration of industrial topics with a faster-paced style.
Touches on everyday object origins and comparisons between ancient inventions and modern tech (search overlap 32%), with strong content overlap (70%), indicating a similar curiosity about origins but a more casual presentation.
Directly related to packaging history and materials (search overlap 35%), mirroring History of Simple Things’ focus on material origins though narrowly scoped to packaging materials and history.
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| #7 | 54% | BRIGHT SIDE | 69% | 44.7M | 32% | 4 |
| #8 | 54% | Factora ▶ | 75% | 193K | 23% | 4 |
| #9 | 54% | Real Engineering ▶ | 67% | 5.0M | 34% | 5 |
| #10 | 54% | Townsends | 72% | 2.9M | 26% | 4 |
| #11 | 53% | History & Sleep | 70% | 52.2K | 27% | 2 |
| #12 | 52% | The Best Film Archives | 70% | 470K | 27% | 2 |
| #13 | 52% | Medieval Times Discovered | 66% | 145K | 31% | 5 |
| #14 | 52% | The Atlantic | 66% | 912K | 31% | 2 |
| #15 | 52% | Great Big Story | 67% | 6.3M | 28% | 3 |
| #16 | 51% | Design Theory | 70% | 743K | 23% | 4 |
| #17 | 51% | Asianometry ▶ | 69% | 918K | 25% | 2 |
| #18 | 51% | Machine Thinking | 74% | 367K | 16% | 4 |
| #19 | 50% | EconClips | 70% | 113K | 21% | 1 |
| #20 | 50% | ReasonTV | 71% | 1.3M | 19% | 2 |
| #21 | 50% | Digimarc | 69% | 1.3K | 22% | 2 |
| #22 | 50% | Primary World | 69% | 15.7K | 22% | 2 |
| #23 | 50% | Materials & Manufacturing Training at Swansea Uni | 69% | 4.8K | 21% | 1 |
| #24 | 50% | Lindybeige | 67% | 1.3M | 23% | 2 |
| #25 | 50% | Stellar Eureka | 68% | 165K | 22% | 2 |
| #26 | 49% | Fact Retriever | 68% | 7.3K | 21% | 1 |
| #27 | 49% | Business Insider ▶ | 70% | 10.4M | 17% | 3 |
| #28 | 49% | Educationleaves ▶ | 70% | 171K | 17% | 1 |
| #29 | 49% | Casually Explained | 67% | 4.2M | 21% | 1 |
| #30 | 48% | Engineering Gone Wild | 69% | 174K | 17% | 4 |
| #31 | 48% | The Science of Products | 67% | 36.4K | 19% | 2 |
| #32 | 48% | Impactall - Science • History • Curiosity | 67% | 2.3K | 19% | 2 |
| #33 | 47% | History Found | 67% | 35.5K | 19% | 4 |
| #34 | 47% | SlimaksClass | 62% | 25.4K | 25% | 2 |
| #35 | 47% | Wabunka | 67% | 5.3K | 17% | 1 |
| #36 | 46% | History Class | 66% | 19.3K | 17% | 1 |
| #37 | 46% | ClickView | 64% | 138K | 20% | 3 |
| #38 | 46% | TGL (Think Global Logistics) | 66% | 103K | 17% | 1 |
| #39 | 46% | SETI Institute | 66% | 85K | 17% | 1 |
| #40 | 46% | John Ferrell, Esq. ▶ | 65% | 1.4M | 17% | 1 |
| #41 | 46% | Risk Bites ▶ | 65% | 26.8K | 17% | 2 |
| #42 | 45% | Intel Newsroom | 64% | 54.1K | 17% | 1 |
Science Channel — 84% match, 5.3M subscribers; TED-Ed — 73% match, 22.4M subscribers; The Efficient Engineer — 71% match, 1.4M subscribers. These channels share a focus on educational explainers about science, technology, and engineering, with History of Simple Things explaining how things are made, their origins, and manufacturing processes.
History of Simple Things creates short- to mid-length explainer videos about how everyday items are made, the history behind simple things, and manufacturing processes. Recent videos include titles like 'How Is Titanium Made?', 'How Is Gunpowder Made?', and 'What’s the Difference Between Cement and Concrete?' Each video garners around 1.5M views on average, with an implied upload cadence of roughly weekly.
We analyze History of Simple Things's recent videos, generate topic-relevant search queries, check YouTube search results, and compare the meaning of each channel's content to measure similarity. The result is a ranked list sorted by SERP overlap, semantic similarity, and search appearances.
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