PBS America

Subscribers 344K

Videos 496

Views 51.0M

Channels Like PBS America

PBS America is a UK-based channel offering documentary content focused on American history, current affairs, and science, with keywords including PBS, documentary, History, and FRONTLINE, NOVA, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Videos appear as full-length documentaries and features, highlighting topics like history, technology, civil rights, and science. The channel uploads regularly since 2011, with an average video view count around 609.5K per video.

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We found 48 YouTube channels similar to PBS America

#1

CrashCourse view on YouTube ▶

80% relevance

Subscribers 16.9M

Videos 1.6K

Views 2.2B

Appearances 17

SERP 100%

Similarity 66%

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They target historical and technology-themed queries similar to PBS America (e.g., history of technology, ancient and medieval history) and, like PBS, produce educational content, resulting in an 80% match with high search overlap but comparatively lower content similarity (66%).

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#2

DW Documentary view on YouTube ▶

78% relevance

Subscribers 6.4M

Videos 1.5K

Views 923.4M

Appearances 10

SERP 80%

Similarity 76%

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DW Documentary shares PBS America's focus on science/history-friendly documentaries and religion and society topics, with strong content overlap (76%) and solid search overlap (80%), indicating a similar audience and documentary style.

#3

Beginning To Now

75% relevance

Subscribers 296K

Videos 11

Views 28.8M

Appearances 12

SERP 73%

Similarity 76%

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Beginning To Now covers American, world, and technology history in a documentary format, aligning with PBS America's historical documentary niche as reflected by a 75% match and substantial search (73%) and content (76%) alignment.

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#4

Timeline - World History Documentaries view on YouTube ▶

68% relevance

Subscribers 5.8M

Videos 1.3K

Views 1.0B

Appearances 10

SERP 65%

Similarity 69%

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Timeline mirrors PBS America's world history and religion/society documentary angles, showing a 68% overall match with moderate-high search (65%) and content (69%) alignment.

#5

HISTORY view on YouTube ▶

64% relevance

Subscribers 15.2M

Videos 11K

Views 5.0B

Appearances 10

SERP 51%

Similarity 73%

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HISTORY shares PBS America's focus on world civilizations and medieval history as well as civil rights topics, evidenced by a 64% match driven by broad content overlap (73%) despite more varied search signals (51%).

#6

History Time

63% relevance

Subscribers 1.3M

Videos 165

Views 202.0M

Appearances 9

SERP 44%

Similarity 76%

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History Time covers world history and cultural/world civilizations topics, aligning with PBS America’s educational history content, yielding a 63% match with notable content similarity (76%) and moderate search alignment (44%).

Content Landscape

Discovered competitors include CrashCourse (80% match) and DW Documentary (78% match) as the top two by match strength. They share overlapping queries with PBS America such as history of technology, science documentaries, and religion and society documentaries. CrashCourse has 16.9M subscribers and DW Documentary has 6.4M; PBS America has 344K subscribers, showing a size difference but similar focus on educational documentaries. These competitors align on topics like american history, global history, and science-related content, indicating competition in search queries around history, technology, and current affairs.

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Rank	Relevance	Channel	Similarity	Subscribers	SERP	Appearances
#7	62%	Made In History	74%	219K	44%	8
#8	58%	National Geographic ▶	71%	25.9M	37%	5
#9	57%	Ominous History	76%	1.5K	29%	2
#10	57%	Daily Dose Documentary ▶	76%	37.5K	29%	3
#11	57%	NOVA PBS Official	81%	1.4M	21%	7
#12	57%	Get.factual ▶	79%	818K	22%	5
#13	56%	Past Uncovered	73%	38K	32%	3
#14	56%	Wicked Histories	75%	117K	29%	2
#15	55%	Professor Graeme Yorston	75%	183K	26%	4
#16	55%	Doc of the Day	76%	45.2K	23%	3
#17	54%	Aperture	72%	2.5M	27%	3
#18	54%	Best Documentary	77%	8.0M	19%	3
#19	53%	The Entire History	76%	34.1K	19%	4
#20	53%	Lucasfilm	75%	299K	21%	6
#21	53%	Xplore	78%	6.8K	15%	1
#22	52%	The American Story - US History Documentaries ▶	74%	111K	19%	3
#23	52%	History investigation	73%	2.9K	21%	2
#24	51%	Hikma History	73%	190K	19%	1
#25	51%	Fall of Civilizations	69%	1.5M	25%	5
#26	51%	Spark ▶	72%	2.0M	20%	6
#27	51%	BBC Earth Science	73%	1.8M	18%	5
#28	51%	China - Insight	70%	396K	22%	2
#29	51%	Vox ▶	69%	12.7M	24%	5
#30	51%	Real History	71%	507K	21%	3
#31	50%	60 Minutes	72%	4.0M	18%	2
#32	50%	Moconomy ▶	71%	1.3M	18%	5
#33	50%	UsefulCharts	70%	2.0M	19%	2
#34	49%	A. J. Merrick	68%	93K	20%	2
#35	49%	Classic Aerospace History ▶	68%	41.3K	20%	5
#36	48%	Biography	70%	1.1M	16%	4
#37	48%	Chronicle - Medieval History Documentaries	69%	860K	17%	2
#38	48%	Black Journals	65%	756K	22%	2
#39	48%	Wild America	68%	101K	16%	2
#40	47%	History at Night	69%	68.8K	16%	2
#41	47%	Heimler's History	66%	1.2M	19%	6
#42	47%	New Scientist	66%	453K	19%	1
#43	47%	Jaydone History ▶	67%	193K	17%	4
#44	47%	A Current Affair	67%	802K	17%	3
#45	47%	MCQ MASTERY	65%	228K	19%	1
#46	46%	Real Science	64%	2.1M	18%	2
#47	45%	BayStateHistory	65%	9.4K	15%	1
#48	43%	Vajiram and Ravi Official	61%	665K	16%	2

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to PBS America?

CrashCourse — 16.9M subscribers, match 80%; DW Documentary — 6.4M subscribers, match 78%; Beginning To Now — 296K subscribers, match 75%. They share a focus on educational, documentary-style content and history/science topics aligned with PBS America’s programming.

What type of content does PBS America make?

PBS America produces full-length documentaries and historical/current affairs programs (titles include The Siege of Mecca, Second Genesis, Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands, Italy's Mystery Mountains, Letters to Eloisa). Upload frequency is not precisely stated, but the channel lists multiple documentary uploads with recent titles such as The Siege of Mecca (2018) and Letters to Eloisa (2021). The videos average about 609.5K views per video.

How do we determine which channels are similar to PBS America?

We analyze PBS America'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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