Joe Meling

Subscribers 52.8K

Videos 269

Views 4.0M

Channels Like Joe Meling

Joe Meling focuses on leathercraft and tooling leather, offering tutorials and guidance to shorten the learning curve in leatherworking. The channel blends instructional content, business advice, and entrepreneurship topics, with videos like Beginner Leather Tooling Tutorial and From Apprentice to Entrepreneur, and covers marketing, side hustles, and career pivots within leatherworking. The channel uploads about 1.4 videos per week, with an average of around 1.5K views per video.

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Similar Channels

We found 47 YouTube channels similar to Joe Meling

#1

Black Flag Leather Goods

87% relevance

Subscribers 36.3K

Videos 114

Views 1.6M

Appearances 24

SERP 100%

Similarity 79%

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Very high search overlap on leathercraft tooling and leather business/education queries (100% and 79% content similarity) indicating the audience and topics converge with Joe Meling, who also covers tooling and business guidance.

#2

Pured Leather

81% relevance

Subscribers 5.1K

Videos 148

Views 450.9K

Appearances 20

SERP 79%

Similarity 82%

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Strong alignment on leathercraft tooling and beginner tooling queries with substantial content similarity, suggesting they attract a similar beginner-to-intermediate audience as Joe Meling while sharing business advice content.

#3

Castillo Heritage Crafts

78% relevance

Subscribers 18.1K

Videos 30

Views 909.2K

Appearances 22

SERP 74%

Similarity 80%

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Shared emphasis on leathercraft tooling and beginner tooling with notable content overlap, plus a common interest in leathercraft patterns, aligning closely with Joe Meling's instructional focus.

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#4

Corter Leather view on YouTube ▶

76% relevance

Subscribers 713K

Videos 407

Views 72.9M

Appearances 25

SERP 71%

Similarity 79%

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Broad overlap on leathercraft patterns and courses plus business guidance, indicating a similar mix of instructional content and entrepreneurship topics as Joe Meling.

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#5

Tanner Leatherstein view on YouTube ▶

70% relevance

Subscribers 569K

Videos 474

Views 106.3M

Appearances 25

SERP 66%

Similarity 73%

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Audience and content overlap centered on leather business advice and marketing for leatherworkers, reflecting Joe Meling’s dual focus on technique and entrepreneurship, albeit with a slightly different stylistic approach.

#6

Parker Lichfield

70% relevance

Subscribers 210K

Videos 238

Views 17.6M

Appearances 13

SERP 53%

Similarity 81%

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Matches Joe Meling on leather business advice and marketing for leatherworkers; content slightly diverges in style but targets the same entrepreneurial leathercraft audience.

Content Landscape

Top competitors by match strength are Black Flag Leather Goods (87% match) and Pured Leather (81% match). Castillo Heritage Crafts (78% match) also closely aligns. These channels compete on overlapping queries such as leathercraft tooling, leather tooling tutorials, leather business advice, and beginner leather tooling. Joe Meling has 52.8K subscribers, while Black Flag Leather Goods has 36K subscribers, Pured Leather has 5.1K, and Castillo Heritage Crafts has 17.5K, indicating that Joe Meling sits between mid-sized and larger peers in this niche. The shared queries include leathercraft tooling, leatherworking course, leather business advice, and beginner leather tooling, signaling direct competition in tutorial and entrepreneurship-focused leatherworking content.

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Rank	Relevance	Channel	Similarity	Subscribers	SERP	Appearances
#7	69%	Girty Leather Co.	83%	25.2K	48%	19
#8	69%	Weaver Leather Supply ▶	77%	358K	57%	21
#9	60%	Hemlock and Hyde	78%	47.3K	32%	8
#10	58%	74 Creative Designs	78%	6K	29%	8
#11	57%	Sharp's Workshop	79%	2.6K	25%	9
#12	57%	Skill Tree	74%	231K	32%	13
#13	57%	James Graves	78%	12.9K	25%	4
#14	56%	Leather Beast	85%	2.9K	13%	5
#15	56%	Sailrite Workbench ▶	76%	302K	25%	10
#16	55%	Bruce Cheaney	80%	84.5K	18%	6
#17	55%	Big Stacks Small Workshop	82%	12.3K	14%	7
#18	55%	Dark Horse Workshop	76%	199K	22%	7
#19	54%	Little King Goods	76%	566K	21%	6
#20	54%	Soulcraft Goods	76%	66.5K	20%	12
#21	54%	J.H.Leather ▶	82%	156K	12%	7
#22	53%	Champagne Leatherwork	80%	4.2K	14%	5
#23	53%	Dad Hands	83%	2.8K	8%	3
#24	53%	Claridge Leather	78%	86.3K	15%	8
#25	53%	Leathercraft Masterclass- Online Video Courses	77%	34.4K	15%	5
#26	52%	STR Handmade	78%	77.4K	13%	3
#27	51%	Ethan Carter Designs	77%	19.5K	13%	4
#28	51%	Wildflower Leather Co.	75%	3.1K	15%	4
#29	51%	DanielReachCreations	78%	12.5K	11%	5
#30	51%	International Leather Club	77%	11K	12%	6
#31	50%	Open Sea Leather Co.	80%	24.5K	7%	3
#32	50%	Cxizent	77%	2.2K	9%	1
#33	50%	The Leathercraft Academy	77%	84.6K	9%	4
#34	49%	Rose Anvil ▶	71%	1.1M	16%	6
#35	49%	Tandy Leather	75%	187K	9%	5
#36	48%	Teran Atelier	76%	22.8K	7%	2
#37	48%	A Great Alternative	75%	23.3K	6%	2
#38	47%	New Business Ideas ▶	70%	267K	11%	4
#39	46%	Artfully Crafted by Aliénor Cros	72%	4.7K	6%	2
#40	45%	Fashion Elitist	70%	141K	9%	1
#41	45%	Alden's School of Leather Trades	70%	23.2K	7%	2
#42	44%	Tale of Knives	69%	134K	7%	4
#43	44%	BizMove	69%	205K	7%	2
#44	43%	Dale Brisby	63%	775K	15%	2
#45	43%	Conjured Stories	66%	2.9K	7%	1
#46	43%	Beastmaster Rodeo	67%	9.7K	6%	2
#47	40%	Rodeo Live	62%	53.3K	7%	3

Search Queries Used

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Joe Meling?

Black Flag Leather Goods — 87% match, 36K subscribers; Pured Leather — 81% match, 5.1K subscribers; Castillo Heritage Crafts — 78% match, 17.5K subscribers. All three appear to focus on leather craft, leather goods creation, and entrepreneurship in craft businesses, similar to Joe Meling's emphasis on building a leather-based venture.

What type of content does Joe Meling make?

Joe Meling creates content about leather crafting, entrepreneurship, and turning crafting into business ventures. Based on video titles, topics include turning a side hustle into a retirement job, leather tooling tutorials, marketing for crafters, growing a leather business, and building reputation. He uploads roughly 1.4 videos per week, with average views around 1.5K per video.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Joe Meling?

We analyze Joe Meling'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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