Mind The Map

Subscribers 46.8K

Videos 66

Views 15.8M

Channels Like Mind The Map

Mind The Map delivers video essays on urban planning, cities, and geography, evidenced by titles about transit, metro history, and urban design. The channel blends deep-dives and explainers with occasional historical or speculative scenarios, utilizing keywords like urban planning, urban design, and city geography. Content is published regularly (as of the data) with an average view per video around 480.6K and a catalog of 66 videos since joining in 2017.

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Similar Channels

We found 46 YouTube channels similar to Mind The Map

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#1

Urban Planner Explained view on YouTube ▶

86% relevance

Subscribers 50.7K

Videos 33

Views 4.4M

Appearances 35

SERP 100%

Similarity 76%

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Strong search overlap on urban planning and city geography queries (100% and 76% content alignment) suggests they attract a similar audience; Mind The Map and Urban Planner Explained both explore how cities are laid out and planned, though their presentation styles differ.

#2

RMTransit view on YouTube ▶

71% relevance

Subscribers 346K

Videos 782

Views 62.4M

Appearances 31

SERP 58%

Similarity 79%

metro history public transit planning historic transit routes

High content similarity (79%) around public transit planning and historic routes aligns with Mind The Map's focus, and the search overlap (58%) indicates a shared audience interested in metro history and planning.

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#3

City Beautiful view on YouTube ▶

61% relevance

Subscribers 739K

Videos 200

Views 91.3M

Appearances 16

SERP 37%

Similarity 77%

urban planning city geography transport planning

Similarly targets urban planning and transport concepts with a strong content match (77%), and substantial search overlap for city geography and planning topics, indicating audiences and topics converge closely.

#4

imperatur

52% relevance

Subscribers 334K

Videos 827

Views 124.7M

Appearances 9

SERP 10%

Similarity 79%

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Although search overlap is low (10%), imperatur covers city geography and city infrastructure with high content similarity (79%), suggesting they attract a related audience but differ in topic emphasis or presentation style.

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#5

Not Just Bikes view on YouTube ▶

52% relevance

Subscribers 1.4M

Videos 139

Views 198.3M

Appearances 9

SERP 14%

Similarity 77%

urban planning public transit planning urban design

Shares key topics (urban planning and public transit planning) with a solid content similarity (77%), and a notable search overlap (14%), indicating a related but distinct approach to urban design and transportation.

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#6

Real Civil Engineer view on YouTube ▶

50% relevance

Subscribers 2.8M

Videos 1.9K

Views 1.1B

Appearances 13

SERP 25%

Similarity 67%

civil engineering cities

Moderate search overlap (25%) paired with substantial content overlap (67%) shows a shared audience around civil engineering cities, though the channel emphasizes engineering methodology more than Mind The Map.

Content Landscape

Top competitors include Urban Planner Explained (86% match) and RMTransit (71% match). Both share overlapping queries with Mind The Map such as urban planning, city geography, transport planning, and metro history. Not Just Bikes (52% match) and City Beautiful (61% match) also compete on similar queries like urban planning and public transit planning, with City Beautiful being notably larger (739K subscribers) than Mind The Map, while RMTransit (346K) and Urban Planner Explained (50.7K) vary in size. The common thread is analysis and explainers around city infrastructure, transit systems, and urban design.

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#7	50%	OBF	78%	630K	8%	4
#8	50%	Bright Trip	77%	144K	9%	4
#9	50%	DW Planet A ▶	72%	765K	17%	4
#10	49%	The Transportation Channel	78%	1.2K	6%	2
#11	48%	Streetscapes ▶	76%	10.9K	8%	3
#12	48%	WIRED ▶	70%	12.8M	16%	5
#13	48%	Planetizen ▶	71%	28.2K	14%	7
#14	48%	The B1M ▶	74%	4.0M	7%	6
#15	47%	TEDx Talks ▶	63%	44.2M	23%	14
#16	47%	Transport Chronicles	70%	37.7K	11%	4
#17	46%	Radical Planning	69%	22.7K	12%	8
#18	46%	Wendover Productions ▶	71%	4.9M	10%	3
#19	46%	Arkive	73%	61.1K	7%	4
#20	46%	Practical Engineering ▶	71%	4.7M	8%	2
#21	46%	Urban Futures	72%	2.8K	6%	3
#22	45%	The Wall Street Journal ▶	71%	6.6M	8%	4
#23	45%	TED ▶	68%	27.2M	12%	7
#24	45%	Vox ▶	69%	12.7M	10%	4
#25	45%	WiseFish	70%	224K	7%	3
#26	44%	Boundless Building	70%	4.0K	6%	1
#27	44%	Byron Tang	69%	4.3K	7%	1
#28	43%	Geo History	68%	1.0M	7%	1
#29	43%	Metrolinx	66%	10.1K	8%	2
#30	43%	CrashCourse ▶	62%	16.9M	14%	5
#31	43%	EIT Urban Mobility	66%	3.1K	7%	4
#32	42%	Grim Dream	67%	10.9K	6%	1
#33	42%	Cheddar	66%	1.1M	5%	2
#34	42%	TED-Ed ▶	66%	22.4M	5%	3
#35	42%	TheGeoecologist	63%	165K	9%	4
#36	41%	CityofVancouverUS	64%	3.5K	7%	1
#37	41%	Gingy	63%	512K	8%	2
#38	41%	Sahari	63%	29.9K	7%	5
#39	41%	Garrison Hayes	64%	180K	6%	1
#40	41%	Urban Institute	64%	5.4K	6%	1
#41	40%	Arup	63%	14K	7%	3
#42	40%	NYC Department of City Planning	62%	4.3K	7%	3
#43	39%	Smart City Expo World Congress	62%	8.1K	6%	1
#44	39%	City of Raleigh	61%	7.2K	6%	3
#45	39%	City of Melbourne	61%	5.3K	6%	3
#46	36%	Ask Literature	55%	10.4K	7%	1

Search Queries Used

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Mind The Map?

Urban Planner Explained (50.7K subscribers, ~86% match) and RMTransit (346K subscribers, ~71% match) are Mind The Map's biggest competitors. City Beautiful (739K subscribers, ~61% match) also competes closely. All three channels focus on urban planning, transit, and city design topics, similar to Mind The Map's emphasis on cities, urban planning, and geography.

What type of content does Mind The Map make?

Mind The Map creates content about urban planning, city design, and geographic-focused transit topics, as indicated by video titles like Why Germany has 11 FAKE Bus Stops, The Riskiest Route to West-Berlin: Transit through the Soviet Sector, Explained, and East Berlin's RISKIEST Escape Route: Cold War Ghost Stations Explained. The channel averages about 480.6K views per video, with recent uploads aligning to high-views in the hundreds of thousands. Upload frequency is described as ~? uploads/week, based on the provided data.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Mind The Map?

We analyze Mind The Map'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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