Not Just Bikes covers urban planning, city design, bicycle infrastructure, and sustainable transportation topics, presenting stories of great urban planning and urban experiences. Content includes deep-dives, critiques, and explainers on how cities work, with a focus on Dutch cities, suburbs, and mobility, plus occasional discussions on policy and design. The channel publishes 139 videos and averages around 4.4 million views per video, with current overall metrics reflecting active engagement since joining April 12, 2019. Videos target topics like urban planning, walkability, and transit, and the channel encourages support through Nebula subscriptions.
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We found 42 YouTube channels similar to Not Just Bikes
High search overlap on urban planning and city design queries with Not Just Bikes, and similar content focus on critique of street design, though Urban Planner Explained presents a more instructional explainer style (88% match; search 100%, content 80%).
Shares a strong focus on urban planning and city design with a notable emphasis on suburban sprawl, aligning in audience and topic but differing in presentation style (73% match; search 57%, content 83%).
Targets broad urban planning topics like walkability and policy discussions, overlapping with Not Just Bikes on queries and policy-oriented content, though TED spans a wider audience with shorter talks (65% match; search 55%, content 72%).
Similar focus on car-centric cities, suburban sprawl, and walkability, but CityNerd often blends humor and concise explainers, leading to a strong audience match despite stylistic differences (65% match; search 35%, content 85%).
Covers density housing and missing middle housing like Not Just Bikes, appealing to the same urbanist audience but with a distinct, more playful creator voice (59% match; search 25%, content 81%).
Delivers urban planning ideas via short, idea-focused talks similar to Not Just Bikes’ policy and design discussions, yet individual speakers and formats vary widely (59% match; search 45%, content 68%).
Content Landscape
Discovered competitors include Urban Planner Explained (88% match) and City Beautiful (73% match) as top competitors by name. Both share overlapping queries with Not Just Bikes such as urban planning, city design, and street design critique (and City Beautiful also aligns with suburban sprawl). TED (65% match) and Ray Delahanty | CityNerd (65% match) also compete on adjacent queries like urban planning policies, walkability cities, and suburban sprawl, though with much larger subscriber bases (TED with 27.2M, CityNerd with ~401K). Oh The Urbanity! (59% match) connects on bicycle infrastructure and density/missing middle housing. Not Just Bikes has 1.4M subscribers, while competitors range from ~401K to 27.2M, indicating a broad competitive landscape across policy, design critiques, and urban living topics.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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 cover city planning, urban design, and transport topics, presenting analyses and explanations similar to Not Just Bikes' focus on sustainable transportation and urban planning.
What type of content does Not Just Bikes make?
Not Just Bikes creates content about urban planning, cycling, sustainable transportation, and city design, with videos like There's Something Wrong With Suburbia and Why Dutch Bikes are Better. It averages about 4.4M views per video, with multiple uploads per week.
How do we determine which channels are similar to Not Just Bikes?
We analyze Not Just Bikes'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.
