Serious History

Subscribers 692K

Videos 52

Views 69.4M

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Serious History covers history topics with a focus on serious, semi-entertaining, and questionably educational videos delivered through animated history and edutainment. The channel emphasizes themes like revenge, survival, anti-heroes, peasant rebellions, and great battles, with content style that blends tutorials and deep-dives represented by video titles and keywords. It publishes videos regularly (newest to oldest) and averages about 1.4 million views per video, with an upload rate around 0.4 videos per week.

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85% relevance

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Videos 750

Views 316.9M

Appearances 17

SERP 100%

Similarity 75%

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Both target audiences interested in history documentaries and medieval topics, evidenced by high search overlap (history documentaries, medieval history) and a strong content alignment (75%), making them similar in topic focus and presentation style.

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Appearances 13

SERP 94%

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82% relevance

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Appearances 9

SERP 91%

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Top competitors include History Hit (85% match) and Kings and Generals (84% match). History Hit overlaps on history documentaries, medieval history, and peasant rebellions, while Kings and Generals aligns with military history, ancient warfare, and medieval history. Also relevant are SandRhoman History (82% match) and Chronicle - Medieval History Documentaries (82% match), which share queries around ancient warfare, medieval sieges, and historical legends. Epic History (81% match) also competes on military history, greatest battles, and epic comebacks history. Serious History has 692K subscribers, while competitors range from about 511K (SandRhoman History) to 4.1M (Kings and Generals) and 3M (Epic History), indicating a smaller, niche audience relative to the larger players but strong overlap in core topics and search queries.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Serious History?

History Hit (85% match, 1.9M subscribers), Kings and Generals (84% match, 4.1M subscribers), and SandRhoman History (82% match, 511K subscribers). They share a focus on history topics and educational/history documentary-style content similar to Serious History.

What type of content does Serious History make?

Serious History creates history-focused animated edutainment content, as suggested by video titles such as Extreme Vigilante Justice in History, People who Refused to Die in History, Most Epic Comebacks in History, Real Life Anti-Heroes in History, and Most Epic Revenge Stories in History. The channel averages about 1.4M views per video and uploads roughly 0.4 times per week.

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