Ryan Peterman

Subscribers 103K

Videos 412

Views 13.0M

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Ryan Peterman covers transparent career stories of technical people, focusing on career growth, leadership, and engineering management. The channel features long-form interviews and discussions with industry leaders, highlighting promotions, PIPs, and workplace experiences, often hosted by an ex-Staff engineer at Instagram. With 412 videos published since Nov 2, 2011, content typically runs long (average around 76 minutes) and targets topics like career paths in tech, leadership in tech, and engineering management progression, accruing an average of about 258K views per video. Upload frequency appears steady over time, and viewers can find him across major social platforms as @ryanlpeterman.

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82% relevance

Subscribers 44.2M

Videos 255K

Views 8.8B

Appearances 23

SERP 100%

Similarity 70%

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High overlap in search queries like 'career stories engineering' and 'leadership in tech' aligns with Ryan Peterman's focus on tech leadership and career progression, though TEDx Talks' content is broader and more talk-format, resulting in a strong search match (100%) but a comparatively lower content similarity (70%).

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74% relevance

Subscribers 196K

Videos 222

Views 9.9M

Appearances 20

SERP 63%

Similarity 81%

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Shared emphasis on technical career growth and software/tech leadership drives solid search alignment (63%) and strong content similarity (81%), indicating a similar audience and topics despite differing presentation style.

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70% relevance

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Videos 139

Views 10.2M

Appearances 16

SERP 74%

Similarity 67%

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Both channels target engineering career trajectories and stakes, giving a strong search overlap (74%) and moderate content similarity (67%), meaning similar topics with distinct delivery.

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69% relevance

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Appearances 13

SERP 66%

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Focus on technical career growth and tech industry career paths yields substantial search overlap (66%) and good content alignment (72%), signaling parallel subject matter with a different stylistic approach.

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GOTO Conferences

68% relevance

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Videos 3.4K

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Appearances 13

SERP 58%

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63% relevance

Subscribers 438K

Videos 635

Views 66.7M

Appearances 7

SERP 50%

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Technical career growth and tech industry career paths overlap, producing notable search alignment (50%) and strong content match (71%), though content may focus more on post-layoff scenarios.

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Top competitors by match strength are: 1) TEDx Talks (82% match) and 2) A Life Engineered (74% match). Both share overlapping queries with Ryan Peterman such as career stories engineering, technical career growth, leadership in tech, and software engineering leadership. Additional contenders include Engineering Gone Wild (70% match) and GOTO Conferences (68% match), which also target technical career trajectories and leadership topics. Notable size differences: Ryan Peterman has 103K subscribers, while TEDx Talks has 44.2M and GOTO Conferences 1.1M, indicating a substantial scale gap with the top competitors. The common themes revolve around career development in tech, leadership, and engineering management, aligning closely with Ryan Peterman's search queries.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Ryan Peterman?

TEDx Talks (82% match, 44.2M subscribers) and A Life Engineered (74% match, 196K subscribers) and Engineering Gone Wild (70% match, 174K subscribers) are Ryan Peterman's biggest competitors. They share a focus on in-depth interviews and expert discussions with high-profile guests, similar to Ryan's interview-style content.

What type of content does Ryan Peterman make?

Ryan Peterman produces interview-style videos featuring prominent tech leaders and executives, such as Boris Cherny, Ethan Evans, Philip Su, and Mike Stonebraker. He uploads multiple long-form interviews with peak views often ranging from around 328K to 577K per video; the average views per recent video are 258.2K. The channel has about 103K subscribers.

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