Skill Up

Subscribers 1.1M

Videos 1.1K

Views 327.9M

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Skill Up covers gaming news, industry analysis, and in-depth game reviews, with a focus on open-world, action-adventure, RPG and handheld trends. The channel features long-form reviews, impressions, and discussion formats (e.g., 'This Week in Videogames', 'Friends Per Second') and emphasizes gameplay guides, impressions, and analysis. Uploads occur regularly (approximately 2.9 uploads per week) with an average of about 188.8K views per video.

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Top competitors by match strength are gameranx (88% match) and IGN (69% match). They share overlapping queries such as gaming news weekly, videogame industry analysis, game industry trends (gameranx) and videogame industry analysis, new game announcements, action adventure games (IGN). Skill Up has a smaller subscriber base (1.1M) compared with gameranx (8.6M) and IGN (19.8M), indicating a difference in scale but similar topic focus. The third competitor, gamewise (61% match), overlaps on open world games, action adventure games, and RPG/LRP mechanics analysis, contributing to competitors around niche genre analysis. Shared queries among competitors include immersive sims, platformer design, RPG mechanics, and game announcements.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Skill Up?

Skill Up's biggest competitors on YouTube are gameranx (8.6M subscribers, 88% match), IGN (19.8M subscribers, 69% match), and gamewise (82.4K subscribers, 61% match). They share a focus on video game content, including reviews, impressions, and gameplay discussions.

What type of content does Skill Up make?

Skill Up creates video essays and impressions on video games, including reviews and hands-on impressions. The channel uploads about 2.9 videos per week, with an average of 188.8K views per video.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Skill Up?

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