People Make Games

Subscribers 578K

Videos 62

Views 41.9M

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People Make Games analyzes video game industry stories and labor issues through deep-dives and investigations, drawing on keywords like games, video games, and PMG to explore who makes games and how they’re treated. The channel presents long-form journalism-style videos and investigations (e.g., court cases, industry unions, worker rights) with occasional narrative-focused pieces, averaging around 41 minutes per video and roughly 355.8K views per upload, with a total of 62 videos published since joining Oct 5, 2011. Content is showcased by a UK-based team and emphasizes storytelling about people behind games.

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82% relevance

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Both target audiences interested in the video game industry with high overlap on queries about video game industry stories and workers' rights, and both show a strong content presence on industry labor issues (82% match with high search alignment, 71% content; similar investigative focus to PMG).

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Shares interest in game development culture and studio workforce alongside PMG, with similar content style around production stories (43% search, 76% content), indicating a closely related audience even if storytelling approach differs.

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Top competitors by match strength are How Money Works (82% match) and Akshon (81% match). Both align with People Make Games on overlapping queries such as video game industry stories, game industry labor issues, and video game workers rights, indicating a shared focus on industry labor and governance. Bellular News (71% match) also competes in the same space with similar queries. In terms of audience size, How Money Works has 1.7M subscribers and Akshon 368K, both larger or comparable in scale to People Make Games (578K), while Bellular News has 523K. The overlap centers on labor, governance, and industry investigations related to the gaming world.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to People Make Games?

How Money Works (82% match, 1.7M subscribers), Akshon (81% match, 368K subscribers), and Bellular News (71% match, 523K subscribers) are People Make Games' biggest YouTube competitors. They share a focus on gaming topics and gaming industry insights, with similar audience interests in video game news and analysis.

What type of content does People Make Games make?

People Make Games creates investigative/analytical gaming content, as suggested by video titles about unions, labor stories, and industry practices (e.g., Why We're Boycotting Xbox; The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 31 Union Members; Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence). The channel averages about 355.8K views per video, with recent uploads including titles like If Rockstar Meant to Kill This Union, It Didn't Work; He Won’t Stop Building a Map to an Imaginary Place; and Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence. Upload frequency is not explicitly stated, but the mention of an average video view count implies regular uploads with a typical weekly cadence implied by the note ~? uploads/week.

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