Reece Batts

Subscribers 170K

Videos 30

Views 125.6M

Channels Like Reece Batts

Reece Batts focuses on history explained in an engaging, unboring style, covering topics from the history of measurement and language to geopolitical scenarios and curiosity-driven history stories. The channel leans into educational history videos and short explainers, with a publication cadence of roughly 0.1 uploads per week and an average view count around 1.5M per video (based on recent uploads).

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#1

CrashCourse view on YouTube ▶

80% relevance

Subscribers 16.9M

Videos 1.6K

Views 2.2B

Appearances 36

SERP 100%

Similarity 67%

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Shares a strong audience in world history and science history topics with high search overlap (world history basics, science history videos) and similar educational intent, though their delivery is more course-like than Reece Batts' style (80% match, content 67%).

#2

TED-Ed view on YouTube ▶

69% relevance

Subscribers 22.4M

Videos 2.3K

Views 4.5B

Appearances 21

SERP 66%

Similarity 72%

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Attains solid overlap on queries about educational history and historical events explained, indicating a comparable audience seeking concise, explainer-style history and science history content (69% match, search 66%, content 72%).

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#3

The Paint Explainer view on YouTube ▶

68% relevance

Subscribers 1.8M

Videos 141

Views 260.9M

Appearances 16

SERP 58%

Similarity 75%

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Catches viewers seeking history explained and world history basics, with a similarly explainer-driven approach and slightly higher content focus on why things happened in history (68% match, content 75%).

#4

Beginning To Now

58% relevance

Subscribers 296K

Videos 11

Views 28.8M

Appearances 9

SERP 43%

Similarity 69%

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Targets world history basics and educational history videos across ancient to modern periods, aligning with Reece Batts’ breadth of historical topics despite differing production style (58% match, content 69%).

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#5

Jaydone History view on YouTube ▶

56% relevance

Subscribers 193K

Videos 157

Views 33.0M

Appearances 14

SERP 31%

Similarity 72%

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Provides history explained and world history basics, attracting a similar educational-history audience, though with a stronger emphasis on concise explainers (56% match, content 72%).

#6

List 25 view on YouTube ▶

55% relevance

Subscribers 2.8M

Videos 3.2K

Views 804.1M

Appearances 7

SERP 27%

Similarity 74%

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Covers why things happened in history and important historical events, overlapping on topic interests and historical event explainers with a slightly different listicle approach (55% match, content 74%).

Content Landscape

Top competitors by match strength are CrashCourse (80% match) and TED-Ed (69% match). Both share overlapping queries with Reece Batts such as history explained, world history basics, educational history videos, and science/history topics. The Paint Explainer (68% match) also overlaps on history explained and why things happened in history. Beginning To Now (58% match) and Jaydone History (56% match) are smaller contenders with similar query overlap. Reece Batts has 170K subscribers, notably smaller than CrashCourse (16.9M) and TED-Ed (22.4M), while closer in scale to The Paint Explainer (1.8M), Beginning To Now (296K), and Jaydone History (193K).

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Reece Batts?

CrashCourse — 80% match, 16.9M subscribers; TED-Ed — 69% match, 22.4M subscribers; The Paint Explainer — 68% match, 1.8M subscribers. All three channels are education-focused and produce explainer-style videos or educational content similar to Reece Batts.

What type of content does Reece Batts make?

Reece Batts creates educational and explainer-style videos, suggested by titles like How the Beaver made America, The history of the Metric System in 7 minutes, The egg war explained In 6 minutes, The forgotten language of Easter Island, and Will Your City Survive Nuclear War? Uploads occur at ~0.1 per week, with an average of about 1.5M views per video.

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