Kraut YouTube channel thumbnail
Kraut
Subscribers 604K
Videos 62
Views 57.5M

Channels Like Kraut

Kraut covers history, geography, culture, and related social topics with a focus on analysis and documentary-style content. The channel emphasizes researched, long-form exploration of European history, politics, institutions, and societal development, often framed as educational or documentary content. Uploads appear to occur regularly, with an average of roughly 243.6K views per video across 62 published pieces.

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CrashCourse YouTube channel thumbnail
#1

81% relevance

Subscribers 16.9M
Videos 1.6K
Views 2.2B
Appearances 29
SERP 100%
Similarity 68%
political history europe bureaucracy and state central europe history

High overlap in political and European history queries (political history europe, central europe history) with strong content similarity to Kraut's educational history format, yielding an 81% match driven by content (68%) and search (100%) alignment.

European Parliament YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 705K
Videos 4.6K
Views 264.6M
Appearances 7
SERP 32%
Similarity 72%
political history europe european diplomacy history european political history

Shares substantial focus on European political history and diplomacy (queries like political history europe, european diplomacy history), resulting in a 56% match as audience and topics align but content depth and presentation differ from Kraut (content 72% but search 32%).

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#3
KaiserBauch

55% relevance

Subscribers 61.6K
Videos 58
Views 6.1M
Appearances 4
SERP 26%
Similarity 74%
central europe history history of central europe baltic states history

Converges on central European history and Baltic states history (queries: central europe history, history of central europe, baltic states history) with a similar academic bent, giving a 55% match despite a distinct channel style (search 26%, content 74%).

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#4
This Is History

54% relevance

Subscribers 275K
Videos 34
Views 28.3M
Appearances 6
SERP 37%
Similarity 66%
political history europe central europe history german politics history

Competes on political history of Europe and Central Europe with German politics history, leading to a 54% match as content aligns (66%) but search signals are moderate (37%), indicating a shared but not identical audience.

Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) YouTube channel thumbnail
#5
Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)

52% relevance

Subscribers 62.3K
Videos 317
Views 7.2M
Appearances 3
SERP 12%
Similarity 79%
central europe history history of central europe baltic states history

Targets central Europe history and Baltic states history; strong content overlap (79%) supports a 52% match, though its audience signals via search are weaker (12%).

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#6
DW Food

52% relevance

Subscribers 240K
Videos 532
Views 58.8M
Appearances 7
SERP 26%
Similarity 69%
gastronomy and culture europe

Despite a different core topic, overlaps with European gastronomy and culture queries create a shared audience niche (queries: gastronomy and culture europe) that yields a 52% match, with content similarity (69%) lower than Kraut’s history focus.

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Content Landscape

Discovered competitors include CrashCourse (81% match) with 16.9M subscribers and overlap on political history Europe, bureaucracy and state, and central Europe history; This Is History (54% match) with 275K subscribers sharing queries around political history Europe, central Europe history, and German politics history; Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) (52% match) with 62.3K subscribers overlapping on central Europe history, history of central Europe, and Baltic states history. Kraut is smaller than CrashCourse but shares core topics in European political history and institutional analysis, and it competes with OSW and This Is History on niche, academically oriented history content. The top two competitors by match strength are CrashCourse (81% match) and This Is History (54% match).

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Rank Relevance Channel Similarity Subscribers SERP Appearances
#7 51% Geo Perspective 79% 30.7K 9% 2
#8 51% European Commission 70% 450K 23% 6
#9 51% Harry's History 71% 1.4K 20% 2
#10 51% YaleCourses 74% 1.7M 16% 6
#11 50% Noah Zerbe 76% 25.9K 11% 2
#12 50% Decoding Geopolitics Podcast with Dominik Presl 77% 114K 10% 2
#13 50% Living Ironically in Europe 76% 501K 10% 4
#14 49% Into Europe 75% 167K 11% 2
#15 49% euronews 75% 2.5M 9% 1
#16 48% History Mapped Out 70% 160K 16% 6
#17 48% SLICE History 71% 275K 13% 5
#18 47% Europa Historia 71% 2.8K 11% 1
#19 47% Kinkella Teaches Archaeology 65% 7.6K 20% 2
#20 47% TEDx Talks 65% 44.2M 20% 6
#21 47% How Countries Work 70% 1.1K 11% 1
#22 46% DW News 72% 6.2M 8% 5
#23 46% CEPR & VideoVox Economics 70% 10.1K 10% 2
#24 46% European Motherland 71% 2.0K 9% 1
#25 46% Epic History 68% 3.0M 14% 2
#26 46% European Committee of the Regions (CoR) 71% 4.4K 9% 1
#27 46% TLDR News Global 69% 1.1M 12% 3
#28 45% Top Fives 67% 3.1M 13% 2
#29 45% Daily Mail World 68% 5.0M 11% 1
#30 45% Forceman Big World 67% 833K 11% 1
#31 45% History of Communism 67% 1.4K 11% 1
#32 44% History Matters 66% 1.9M 11% 5
#33 44% The Great War 67% 1.9M 10% 2
#34 44% Cottereau 67% 287K 8% 4
#35 44% GHCHistory 66% 3.4K 9% 3
#36 43% Freethink 65% 1.4M 11% 1
#37 43% Alivia Brown 65% 29.7K 11% 5
#38 43% Historia Civilis 66% 1.1M 9% 1
#39 43% Helpful Professor Explains! 63% 40K 13% 3
#40 43% Polina's Pages 64% 12.8K 11% 1
#41 42% Dr. Rob's Archaeofilms 61% 4.1K 12% 2
#42 42% Words and Meanings Explained 62% 227K 11% 1

Search Queries Used

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Kraut?

CrashCourse — 16.9M subscribers (match 81%). European Parliament — 705K subscribers (match 56%). KaiserBauch — 61.6K subscribers (match 55%). All three channels create educational, documentary-style content focused on history, culture, and politics, similar to Kraut's emphasis on history, economics, sociology, and institutional topics.

What type of content does Kraut make?

Kraut creates documentary-style educational videos on history, culture, politics, economics, and social science topics. Recent videos include titles like Nuclear Weapons in the Trump/Putin Era (296.8K views) and A History of Hungary - From Nomads to Kings (181.9K views). Upload frequency is implied to be multiple videos per week, with an average of about 243.6K views per video.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Kraut?

We analyze Kraut'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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