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Lume
Subscribers 215K
Videos 89
Views 33.0M

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Lume covers original documentaries focused on financial crime, white-collar crime, cybercrime, and related investigations. Its content style leans toward deep-dives and explanatory stories that inform and surprise, released weekly with videos averaging about 24 minutes and approximately 318K views per video.

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Subscribers 3.4M
Videos 4.3K
Views 3.9B
Appearances 16
SERP 100%
Similarity 71%
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Both target audiences interested in financial integrity and corporate scrutiny, with high overlap in searches about financial audit failures (100% search alignment) and similar documentary-style investigation content (71% content similarity), signaling a shared focus on financial missteps.

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#2

77% relevance

Subscribers 9.5M
Videos 8K
Views 5.5B
Appearances 9
SERP 80%
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Share a strong audience overlap around financial crime and cybercrime topics (80% search similarity and 75% content similarity), positioning both as investigative, documentary-style channels that explore financial wrongdoing.

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Subscribers 3.4M
Videos 1.2K
Views 929.7M
Appearances 10
SERP 90%
Similarity 66%
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Similar investigative documentary approach on financial crime and banking fraud (90% search overlap) and related themes like prison surveillance, with moderate content alignment (66%), indicating parallel storytelling and subject matter.

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#4

73% relevance

Subscribers 12.8M
Videos 4.1K
Views 4.8B
Appearances 7
SERP 74%
Similarity 72%
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Accounts for technology-driven crime stories and data privacy scandals (74% search similarity and 72% content similarity), reflecting a shared interest in tech-enabled crime and systemic failures.

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Unhinged Explainer

71% relevance

Subscribers 10K
Videos 21
Views 779.5K
Appearances 6
SERP 59%
Similarity 79%
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#6
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71% relevance

Subscribers 4.0M
Videos 4.8K
Views 1.3B
Appearances 7
SERP 75%
Similarity 68%
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Aligns on financial and banking fraud documentary interest (75% search similarity) and related themes like prison surveillance, with fairly consistent content tone (68%), indicating a comparable investigative framework.

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Content Landscape

Top competitors include Insider (77% match) and FRONTLINE PBS | Official (76% match), both aligning with overlapping queries such as financial crime documentaries, banking fraud documentaries, and cybercrime investigations. WIRED (73% match) also competes on systems hacking and technology-related crime investigations. Lume has 215K subscribers, while Insider has 9.5M and FRONTLINE PBS has 3.4M, with WIRED at 12.8M, indicating a smaller channel size but targeting similar topics and search queries. The shared queries include financial crime documentaries, banking fraud documentaries, and cybercrime investigations, positioning these channels as direct competitors in the same informational, documentary-style space.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Lume?

Caleb Hammer — 83% match, 3M subscribers; Insider — 77% match, 9.5M subscribers; FRONTLINE PBS | Official — 76% match, 3.4M subscribers. They share a focus on investigative, documentary-style content that analyzes financial, criminal, or systemic topics similar to Lume.

What type of content does Lume make?

Lume creates investigative or analysis-style videos about financial, crime, and systemic issues, as shown by titles like 'The Most Genius Bank Robbery In History' and 'She Stole $98 Million From The IRS Using This One Crazy Loophole!' The channel uploads about 2.9 videos per week, with an average of 318K views per video.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Lume?

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