Samuel Donner

Subscribers 1.2M

Videos 167

Views 664.2M

Channels Like Samuel Donner

Samuel Donner's channel centers on cooking-for-me-themed content, featuring strangers cooking for the host across various locations (Australia, Mexico, China, NYC) and paid-for meals, with a focus on social dining experiments and open kitchen challenges. The videos suggest a mix of social experiment style and collaborative cooking, likely long-form vlogs with each episode around 20–32 minutes and recent titles highlighting interactions with strangers and paid cooking arrangements. The channel has 1.2M subscribers and 664.2M total views, publishes 167 videos, and averages around 59.1K views per video, indicating a steady posting cadence since joining in January 2025.

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Danny Kim view on YouTube ▶

88% relevance

Subscribers 3.0M

Videos 474

Views 1.6B

Appearances 37

SERP 100%

Similarity 80%

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High search overlap on 'cooking with strangers' and related phrases (100% search, 88% overall match), indicating they attract a similar audience around paid or organized cooking with strangers, though Donner and Kim differ in content execution (80% content match).

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Nick DiGiovanni view on YouTube ▶

78% relevance

Subscribers 34.4M

Videos 478

Views 16.6B

Appearances 13

SERP 84%

Similarity 74%

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Strong alignment on 'cooking with strangers' queries and related ideas (84% search, 78% match overall), suggesting shared interest in social cooking concepts, with similar but distinct video formats (74% content match).

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What Would You Do? view on YouTube ▶

66% relevance

Subscribers 6.3M

Videos 426

Views 2.1B

Appearances 19

SERP 62%

Similarity 69%

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Overlap on 'food social experiment' and 'shared meal experiences' queries (62% search, 66% match), indicating a comparable interest in social dining concepts, but different content style (69% content match).

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Discover Connection view on YouTube ▶

64% relevance

Subscribers 1.6M

Videos 88

Views 137.6M

Appearances 17

SERP 38%

Similarity 82%

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Shares audience interest in 'cooking with strangers' and 'strangers cooking/meal prep' topics (38% search vs 64% match), implying similar audience reach but slightly divergent content emphasis (82% content match).

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Joshua Weissman view on YouTube ▶

56% relevance

Subscribers 10.5M

Videos 799

Views 2.4B

Appearances 5

SERP 29%

Similarity 74%

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Some overlap through 'cook for me' search intent and complementary cooking topics (29% search, 56% match), reflecting a shared broader cooking audience though Donner’s content centers more on social/collaborative formats (74% content match).

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Andy Cooks view on YouTube ▶

54% relevance

Subscribers 6.1M

Videos 1.4K

Views 3.5B

Appearances 6

SERP 23%

Similarity 75%

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Moderate overlap on 'cook for me' and home cooking ideas (23% search, 54% match), indicating overlapping audience with Donner but different focus areas, evidenced by high content similarity (75%).

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Top competitors by match strength are Danny Kim (88% match) and Nick DiGiovanni (78% match), both overlapping on queries like 'cooking with strangers', 'ask strangers to cook', and 'pay strangers to cook'. What Would You Do? (66% match) also overlaps on 'food social experiment' and 'shared meal experiences'. Joshua Weissman (56% match) appears as a competitor due to related 'cook for me' concepts. Samuel Donner has 1.2M subscribers, while Danny Kim and Nick DiGiovanni have substantially larger audiences (3M and 34.4M subscribers, respectively), indicating a broader reach for those rivals. The common thread among these channels is hosting or enacting cooking experiences with non-professionals, strangers, or crowds and exploring the social aspects of shared meals.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Samuel Donner?

Danny Kim — 88% match, 3M subscribers; Nick DiGiovanni — 78% match, 34.4M subscribers; What Would You Do? — 66% match, 6.3M subscribers. All three channels are similar in that they create expressive, challenge-style videos involving people and social experiments or interactions around everyday activities, similar to Samuel Donner's format of engaging strangers in cooking-related challenges.

What type of content does Samuel Donner make?

Samuel Donner makes social-experiment style cooking videos, such as asking strangers to cook for him and paying strangers to cook in various locations (Australia). His content centers on interactions with strangers around cooking, with titles like 'What It’s Really Like Asking Strangers to Cook for Me' and 'Asking Mexican/Chinese STRANGERS to Cook Until Someone Does…'. He averages about 59.1K views per video, and the channel has 1.2M subscribers, with uploads occurring regularly (average uploads per week not precisely stated but implied frequent).

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