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Road Guy Rob
Subscribers 222K
Videos 502
Views 63.4M

Channels Like Road Guy Rob

Road Guy Rob covers road infrastructure, transportation engineering, and urban planning topics through in-depth explorations and explainer-style videos. The channel uses a tutorials/ deep-dive style with occasional list-like or investigative content, and uploads about 0.3 videos per week, averaging roughly 301K views per video across 502 published works.

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Subscribers 4.7M
Videos 237
Views 524.7M
Appearances 16
SERP 100%
Similarity 76%
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Both target audiences interested in road infrastructure and highway design history; share high search overlap on road infrastructure and traffic engineering basics, while Practical Engineering’s content style is more data/engineering explanation oriented (85% match overall, 100% search, 76% content).

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Not Just Bikes YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 1.4M
Videos 139
Views 198.3M
Appearances 9
SERP 47%
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Both discuss road infrastructure and urban street design with a strong emphasis on bicycle infrastructure planning, yielding high audience overlap (67% match) and a mismatch between search (47%) and content focus (80%).

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Subscribers 203K
Videos 176
Views 21.5M
Appearances 4
SERP 34%
Similarity 72%
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Both cover road infrastructure and municipal projects like freeway construction, attracting similar topics though Civil Mentors leans more toward civil-technical tutorials (57% match; 34% search, 72% content).

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Videos 20
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Appearances 5
SERP 21%
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Shared emphasis on urban street design and bicycle infrastructure planning; audiences overlap despite Streetscapes’ niche and higher content similarity (55% match; 21% search, 78% content).

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Videos 275
Views 808.2M
Appearances 4
SERP 32%
Similarity 69%
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Both examine broad road infrastructure and highway design history for a general audience, resulting in substantial topic overlap though Wendover’s style is documentary-driven (54% match; 32% search, 69% content).

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SERP 22%
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Overlap in urban street design and street redesign topics with public transit integration, yielding similar audience interests and moderately high content alignment (54% match; 22% search, 75% content).

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Content Landscape

Top competitors include Practical Engineering (85% match) and Wendover Productions (54-85% match range), with Not Just Bikes (67% match) also closely aligned. These channels share overlapping queries such as road infrastructure, highway design history, and traffic engineering basics, as well as urban street design and freeway construction topics. Road Guy Rob has 222K subscribers, while Practical Engineering and Wendover Productions have substantially larger audiences at 4.7M and 4.9M respectively, with Not Just Bikes at 1.4M subscribers. The shared queries indicate competition around educational explainers and policy-focused transportation content.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Road Guy Rob?

Practical Engineering — 85% match, 4.7M subscribers; Not Just Bikes — 67% match, 1.4M subscribers; Civil Mentors — 57% match, 203K subscribers. They share a focus on infrastructure, transportation systems, and urban planning topics similar to Road Guy Rob.

What type of content does Road Guy Rob make?

Road Guy Rob creates content about roads, transportation, civil engineering, urban planning, and related topics, with an average of about 301.3K views per video and ~0.3 uploads per week. Recent videos include titles like 'Why Texas Builds a Freeway Next to Every Freeway' (439K views) and 'Turns out Route 66 is OLDER... than Route 66?' (213K views), indicating a focus on infrastructure history, policy, and planning.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Road Guy Rob?

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