Shortary

Subscribers 95.1K

Videos 8

Views 6.4M

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Shortary covers dark truths, crime histories, heists, hacks, and investigative storytelling in 3D-style presentations. The channel emphasizes deep-dives and explanatory storytelling around bank heists, prison escapes, online fraud, and hacking history, with a mix of long-form analyses and documentary-style content. Uploads occur with a low frequency (average ~0.1 uploads per week) and videos consistently attract high engagement, averaging about 794.4K views per video across 8 published works.

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82% relevance

Subscribers 12.8M

Videos 4.1K

Views 4.8B

Appearances 11

SERP 100%

Similarity 70%

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Both appeal to audiences curious about security incidents and hacking history, with high search overlap (100%) on similar queries, yet WIRED's content style (70% content similarity) differs from Shortary's concise explainers.

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80% relevance

Subscribers 4.7M

Videos 112

Views 460.5M

Appearances 16

SERP 89%

Similarity 74%

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Shares an interest in bank heists and hacking history, aligning on 89% search overlap, but fern’s focus on sensationalized crime and prison escapes leads to lower content alignment (74%) with Shortary.

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76% relevance

Subscribers 9.5M

Videos 8K

Views 5.5B

Appearances 11

SERP 82%

Similarity 73%

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Both cover bank heists and online fraud investigations, resulting in strong search overlap (82%), though Insider’s investigative reporting style diverges from Shortary’s shorter explainers (content similarity 73%).

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70% relevance

Subscribers 856K

Videos 2.3K

Views 91.1M

Appearances 14

SERP 75%

Similarity 67%

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Targets hacking history and digital security breaches similar to Shortary, with solid search alignment (75%), but Cybernews tends to deeper cybersecurity explainers, yielding lower content overlap (67%).

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70% relevance

Subscribers 215K

Videos 89

Views 33.0M

Appearances 6

SERP 50%

Similarity 83%

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Collows bank robbery and heist topics, attracting related search queries (50% search), yet their robbery documentary format creates higher content divergence (83%) compared to Shortary.

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Robbers IQ view on YouTube ▶

69% relevance

Subscribers 203K

Videos 155

Views 33.1M

Appearances 8

SERP 49%

Similarity 82%

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Covers prison escapes and bank robberies like Shortary, leading to substantial search overlap (49%), but their focus on unsolved heists and analysis differs in style, boosting content similarity (82%).

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Top competitors include WIRED (82% match) and Insider (76% match) as the closest matches, with Fern (80% match) close behind. They share overlapping queries such as hacking history, major hacks explained, bank heists explained, prison escape stories, and online fraud investigations. WIRED has 12.8M subscribers and Insider has 9.5M, both vastly larger than Shortary’s 95.1K subscribers, while Fern has 4.7M. All three channels compete in the same space of crime, technology, and security explanations, focusing on explainers and investigative narratives.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Shortary?

WIRED — 12.8M subscribers, match 82%; fern — 4.7M subscribers, match 80%; Insider — 9.5M subscribers, match 76%. All three are established media/insight platforms with a focus on documentary-style or investigative reporting, aligning with Shortary's documentary and exposé topics.

What type of content does Shortary make?

Shortary creates documentary-style content about heists, hacks, scams, prison escapes, and financial intrigues, based on video titles such as The Darkest & Most Cruel Hack in History, The UFC Fighter Who Pulled Off The Biggest Robbery in UK, How a Sandwich Ruined an Incredible $100 Million Robbery, The CRAZIEST Prison Escape Ever, and The Most Genius Bank Heist EVER. The channel averages about 0.1 uploads per week and roughly 794.4K views per video.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Shortary?

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