samyam

Subscribers 123K

Videos 220

Views 15.0M

Channels Like samyam

samyam focuses on game development content, including tutorials, devlogs, and design/process videos that explore making indie games and platformers, often featuring specific tools like Unity and Godot. The channel appears to publish a mix of tutorial-style videos, devlogs, and challenge content, with an average view count around 68.6K per video and a catalog of 220 published videos since joining in 2020.

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#1

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90% relevance

Subscribers 435K

Videos 737

Views 33.9M

Appearances 24

SERP 100%

Similarity 83%

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83% relevance

Subscribers 1.7M

Videos 230

Views 213.1M

Appearances 21

SERP 87%

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Juniper Dev

79% relevance

Subscribers 348K

Videos 73

Views 15.5M

Appearances 16

SERP 68%

Similarity 86%

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77% relevance

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Videos 160

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Appearances 18

SERP 73%

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66% relevance

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Videos 37

Views 4.8M

Appearances 7

SERP 33%

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Videos 340

Views 2.0M

Appearances 13

SERP 50%

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Content Landscape

Discovered competitors include Thomas Brush (90% match) and Game Maker's Toolkit (83% match) as top rivals. Both overlap with samyam on indie game development, game dev tutorials, platformer game development, and game design processes. Juniper Dev (79% match) also shares overlapping queries like game dev tutorials and platformer game development. In terms of audience size, samyam has 123K subscribers, while Thomas Brush and Game Maker's Toolkit boast substantially larger audiences (435K and 1.7M subscribers, respectively). These competitors compete on similar search queries such as indie game development, platformer game development, and game design processes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to samyam?

samyam's biggest competitors on YouTube are Thomas Brush (435K subscribers, 90% match) and Game Maker's Toolkit (1.7M subscribers, 83% match) and Juniper Dev (348K subscribers, 79% match). All three channels share a focus on game development, design, and tutorials for indie developers, similar to samyam's emphasis on game creation and development knowledge.

What type of content does samyam make?

samyam creates content about game development and indiedev topics, as indicated by video titles such as 'every step to actually make your dream game (then sell it)', 'making my dream platformer game in 30 days | BUMBI devlog', 'this tiny bug almost RUINED my precision platformer | BUMBI devlog', 'I made a game in Godot with No Experience', and 'I Made a Game, but every Spin adds a New Challenge!'. The channel averages about 68.6K views per video, with an implied multiple uploads per week (exact weekly uploads not specified).

How do we determine which channels are similar to samyam?

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