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.
Similar Channels
We found 48 YouTube channels similar to PBS America
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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%).
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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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Frequently Asked Questions
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.
