Channels Like Insider

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Insider
Subscribers 9.5M
Videos 8K
Views 5.5B

Insider covers crime, justice, and investigative topics through in-depth explainer and how-it-works formats (e.g., How FBI Undercover Agents Actually Work, How Hit Men Actually Work) with a focus on information and entertainment. The channel publishes long-form videos (often around 40–60 minutes) and averages about 1.0M views per video, with a pace of roughly 1.4 uploads per week. Content style leans toward deep-dives and investigations rather than quick news briefs.

Content Landscape

Top competitors include TEDx Talks (79% match) and A&E (60% match). These rivals share overlapping queries related to the criminal justice system, prison system overview, disaster response centers, crime investigation, and law enforcement operations. Insider has 9.5M subscribers, while TEDx Talks and A&E hold substantially larger audiences (44.2M and 11.7M, respectively), highlighting a size gap but similar topic reach. IBM Technology (57%) and JCS - Criminal Psychology (57%) also align on dark web overview, disaster response centers, and criminal psychology; they are smaller or comparable in subscribers but still compete on related search queries.

Similar Channels

We found 46 YouTube channels similar to Insider

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#1 TEDx Talks

79% relevance

Subscribers 44.2M
Videos 255K
Views 8.8B
Appearances 24
SERP 100%
Similarity 65%
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Shares audience and interest in informative, science- and society-focused content with Insider, matching searches like prison system overview and disaster response centers (100% search overlap) but diverges in content style (65% content similarity).

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#2 A&E

60% relevance

Subscribers 11.7M
Videos 13K
Views 7.3B
Appearances 8
SERP 40%
Similarity 73%
crime investigation law enforcement operations forensic evidence handling

Targets crime investigation and forensic topics overlapping with Insider’s interest areas (40% search overlap) while delivering more dramatized, true-crime storytelling (73% content similarity).

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#3 WIRED

58% relevance

Subscribers 12.8M
Videos 4.1K
Views 4.8B
Appearances 5
SERP 29%
Similarity 77%
crime scene analysis interrogation techniques ethics

Both cover crime scene analysis and ethics-related tech topics, with significant search overlap but WIRED’s content emphasizes tech-driven storytelling (77% content similarity) rather than Insider’s broader news format.

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#4 IBM Technology

57% relevance

Subscribers 1.6M
Videos 1.5K
Views 108.6M
Appearances 4
SERP 39%
Similarity 70%
dark web overview disaster response centers biometric surveillance ethics

Shares interest in dark web, biometric surveillance ethics, and disaster response topics (39% search overlap) but presents as enterprise tech content with tool-focused, technical depth (70% content similarity).

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#5 JCS - Criminal Psychology

57% relevance

Subscribers 5.6M
Videos 25
Views 484.6M
Appearances 5
SERP 35%
Similarity 72%
criminal psychology interrogation techniques ethics

Centers on criminal psychology and interrogation ethics, aligning on key queries (35% search overlap) though JCS leans more into academic psychology discourse (72% content similarity).

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#6 Dr Frankenstein

57% relevance

Subscribers 23.3K
Videos 25
Views 1.6M
Appearances 7
SERP 31%
Similarity 74%
criminal psychology

Converges on criminal psychology topics (31% search overlap) with a similar analytical angle, yet Dr Frankenstein’s persona-driven, niche style yields high content similarity (74%).

Didn't Make the Cut

40 additional channels that were close

Rank Relevance Channel Similarity Subscribers SERP Appearances
#7 55% The FBI Files 79% 1.0M 19% 4
#8 55% The Infographics Show 75% 15.4M 25% 6
#9 55% Unhinged Explainer 76% 10K 22% 4
#10 53% TED-Ed 66% 22.4M 34% 6
#11 52% Psych2Go 68% 13M 27% 5
#12 51% Law Enforcement Insider 76% 4.3K 15% 5
#13 51% Professor Dave Explains 68% 4.2M 26% 7
#14 51% TED 67% 27.2M 26% 6
#15 51% MedCircle 67% 1.7M 26% 3
#16 50% Explains 101 72% 326K 17% 2
#17 49% Law&Crime Network 69% 7.5M 19% 4
#18 49% DW Documentary 73% 6.4M 13% 3
#19 48% alder 72% 22.1K 13% 2
#20 48% Chris Voss & The Black Swan Group 72% 512K 13% 1
#21 48% Simplified In Short 67% 18.1K 20% 3
#22 48% Blundera 69% 35.8K 16% 1
#23 47% Antenna 68% 38.5K 16% 2
#24 47% SLICE Full Doc 70% 479K 13% 1
#25 47% Pierson Anthropology 68% 1.2K 15% 2
#26 47% SciShow 68% 8.4M 16% 1
#27 47% CrashCourse 69% 16.9M 14% 5
#28 47% Forgotten Crimes 67% 3.3K 16% 1
#29 46% Hospice Nurse Julie 66% 681K 16% 5
#30 46% TED Archive 68% 292K 13% 1
#31 46% Freethink 66% 1.4M 15% 2
#32 45% Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) 65% 169K 16% 1
#33 45% FEMA 63% 58.1K 17% 2
#34 45% Human & Crime 66% 6.6K 13% 3
#35 45% Charisma on Command 66% 7.0M 13% 1
#36 44% ISACA HQ 66% 26.9K 13% 1
#37 44% The Guardian 65% 2.5M 13% 2
#38 43% CBS News 63% 7.0M 13% 4
#39 43% Conventus Law 63% 1.8K 13% 1
#40 43% Annenberg Classroom 63% 4.0K 13% 1
#41 43% University of Derby 62% 37.7K 14% 4
#42 43% Wellcome Collection 63% 108K 12% 3
#43 42% Osmosis from Elsevier 60% 3.7M 16% 1
#44 42% RegisteredNurseRN 62% 5.3M 13% 1
#45 41% NowThis Impact 62% 4.9M 11% 3
#46 40% ABC10 59% 480K 13% 1

Search Queries Used

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Insider?

TEDx Talks (44.2M subscribers) matches 79%, A&E (11.7M subscribers) matches 60%, and WIRED (12.8M subscribers) matches 58%. All are YouTube channels with large subscriber bases and produce informational or news-oriented content, similar to Insider in scope and format.

What type of content does Insider make?

Insider creates information-driven content including news, business, and entertainment topics. Video titles show investigative or explanatory formats (e.g., How FBI Undercover Agents Actually Work, How Hit Men Actually Work, How Gay Conversion Therapy Camps Actually Work) with average views around 994.9K per video and about 1.4 uploads per week.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Insider?

We analyze Insider'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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