Not Just Bikes

Subscribers 1.4M

Videos 139

Views 198.3M

Channels Like Not Just Bikes

Not Just Bikes covers urban planning, city design, bicycle infrastructure, and sustainable transportation topics, leveraging videos that critique street design, discuss suburban sprawl, and advocate for walkable, transit-oriented cities. The channel uses a mix of deep-dives, essays, and commentary grounded in urban planning insights, with audience engagement through recurring themes like why Dutch bikes work and critiquing car-centric cities. It publishes content regularly, with an average of around 4.2 million views per video across 139 published uploads since joining in 2019.

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We found 42 YouTube channels similar to Not Just Bikes

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#1

Urban Planner Explained view on YouTube

88% relevance

Subscribers 50.7K

Videos 33

Views 4.4M

Appearances 20

SERP 100%

Similarity 80%

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Likens Not Just Bikes through shared focus on urban planning and street design critique, with high search overlap on urban planning, city design, and street design critique, though with a slightly different content style (88% match, 100% search, 80% content).

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#2

City Beautiful view on YouTube

73% relevance

Subscribers 739K

Videos 200

Views 91.3M

Appearances 22

SERP 57%

Similarity 83%

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Similar audience and topics around urban planning and city design, plus concerns about suburban sprawl, evidenced by strong search overlap (57%) and high content alignment (83%), giving 73% overall match.

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#3

TED view on YouTube

65% relevance

Subscribers 27.2M

Videos 5.5K

Views 3.1B

Appearances 14

SERP 55%

Similarity 72%

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Shares broad urban planning themes and walkability city policy topics that align in search queries and policy-oriented content, with notable but not perfect content alignment (65% match: 55% search, 72% content).

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#4

Ray Delahanty | CityNerd view on YouTube

65% relevance

Subscribers 401K

Videos 234

Views 45.9M

Appearances 13

SERP 35%

Similarity 85%

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Addresses suburban sprawl and car-centric cities with a walkability focus, showing solid search overlap but some stylistic divergence (65% match: 35% search, 85% content).

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#5

Oh The Urbanity!

59% relevance

Subscribers 112K

Videos 195

Views 15.1M

Appearances 9

SERP 25%

Similarity 81%

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Covers density housing and missing middle housing, aligning with Not Just Bikes on density topics though with different depth and style (59% match: 25% search, 81% content).

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#6

TEDx Talks view on YouTube

59% relevance

Subscribers 44.2M

Videos 255K

Views 8.8B

Appearances 20

SERP 45%

Similarity 68%

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Delivers urban planning and street design critique content similar to Not Just Bikes, with moderate search overlap and a slightly broader conference-style presentation (59% match: 45% search, 68% content).

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Discovered competitors include Urban Planner Explained (88% match) and City Beautiful (73% match) as top contenders, both overlapping on urban planning and city design topics. TED (65% match) also competes on walkability and urban planning policies, while Ray Delahanty | CityNerd (65% match) relates through suburban sprawl and walkability topics. Oh The Urbanity! (59% match) adds competition on bicycle infrastructure and missing middle housing. Not Just Bikes has 1.4M subscribers, which is smaller than City Beautiful (739K) and TED (27.2M) but larger than Oh The Urbanity! (112K); Urban Planner Explained sits at 50.7K subscribers. The common queries driving competition include urban planning, city design, street design critique, suburban sprawl, bicycle infrastructure, and walkability cities.

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#11	54%	Streetscapes	84%	10.9K	9%	3
#12	54%	Mind The Map	77%	46.8K	19%	9
#13	52%	Dover Kohl	79%	3.7K	12%	5
#14	52%	Streetcraft	81%	145K	9%	4
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#18	50%	Lincoln Institute of Land Policy	75%	10.5K	14%	2
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#20	50%	Adam Something	77%	1.3M	10%	3
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#23	49%	CNBC	69%	4.1M	19%	5
#24	49%	Moconomy	75%	1.3M	11%	1
#25	49%	Evan Edinger	72%	1.1M	14%	3
#26	48%	Propel	72%	77.9K	12%	2
#27	48%	GEN	74%	648K	8%	1
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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Not Just Bikes?

Urban Planner Explained — 88% match, 50.7K subscribers; City Beautiful — 73% match, 739K subscribers; TED — 65% match, 27.2M subscribers. All three channels discuss urban design, transportation, and city planning concepts similar to Not Just Bikes.

What type of content does Not Just Bikes make?

Not Just Bikes creates videos about urban planning, transportation, cycling, and sustainable cities, with topics like suburbs, street design, and Dutch bikes. The channel averages around 4.2M views per video and uploads roughly at a weekly cadence, based on the recent video views and the note about average views per video.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Not Just Bikes?

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