Channels Like Sprouts

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Sprouts
Subscribers 1.9M
Videos 226
Views 163.2M

Sprouts creates educational cartoons that explain complex ideas in simple language, covering unschooing, homeschooling, parenting, psychology, economics, neuroscience, and related learning topics. The channel produces tutorials and explanatory videos that blend educational storytelling, with a steady output of videos (226 published since 2014) and average views around 18.3K per video, typically around 4 minutes long.

Content Landscape

Top competitors include TEDx Talks (84% match, 44.2M subscribers) and Psych2Go (70% match, 13M subscribers). They share overlapping queries with Sprouts such as toxic relationships, depression experience, cycle of abuse phases, and how ideas spread. TED (58% match, 27.2M subscribers) and Dr. Tracey Marks (58% match, 2.3M subscribers) also compete on related topics like mental health education and relationship dynamics. CrashCourse (57% match, 16.9M subscribers) connects via economics and psychology-related queries. Sprouts, with 1.9M subscribers, is smaller than these competitors but targets similar educational niches and audience interests.

Similar Channels

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#1 TEDx Talks

84% relevance

Subscribers 44.2M
Videos 255K
Views 8.8B
Appearances 46
SERP 100%
Similarity 73%
toxic relationships depression experience fetal alcohol spectrum

Both target broad-interest audiences with educational, idea-focused content and share substantial search overlap on topics like toxic relationships and mental health, though TEDx Talks differs in presentation style (talks-based vs Sprouts’ wellness psychology format).

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#2 Psych2Go

70% relevance

Subscribers 13M
Videos 3.9K
Views 2.1B
Appearances 34
SERP 56%
Similarity 79%
toxic relationships cycle of abuse phases depression experience

Both cover psychology and mental health topics with strong alignment on queries such as toxic relationships and depression experiences, and have a similar content emphasis on psychological education and self-help concepts.

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#3 TED

58% relevance

Subscribers 27.2M
Videos 5.5K
Views 3.1B
Appearances 10
SERP 34%
Similarity 74%
how ideas spread paradox of choice mental health education

Both aim at disseminating ideas and mental health education to a wide audience; they share significant search overlap on mental-health-related queries, though TED’s content is broader in idea-spread and philosophy rather than focused psychology.

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#4 Dr. Tracey Marks

58% relevance

Subscribers 2.3M
Videos 1.3K
Views 183.4M
Appearances 16
SERP 32%
Similarity 75%
toxic relationships depression experience relationship boundaries

Both address relationship boundaries and mental-health concepts with high content overlap on depression experiences and boundaries, reflecting clinician-informed psychology education similar to Sprouts.

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#5 CrashCourse

57% relevance

Subscribers 16.9M
Videos 1.6K
Views 2.2B
Appearances 12
SERP 34%
Similarity 72%
prices and economics economic principles for beginners psychology of influence

Both attract broad educational audiences and intersect on psychology-related queries like influence and economic-psychology intersections, with Sprouts sharing mental-health angles in a more applied wellness context.

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#6 Therapy in a Nutshell

57% relevance

Subscribers 2.4M
Videos 594
Views 172.3M
Appearances 15
SERP 32%
Similarity 73%
relationship boundaries emotional resilience self worth growth

Both focus on practical mental-health guidance, with strong overlap on relationship boundaries and emotional resilience, indicating similar self-help psychology content.

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#13 50% Kati Morton 77% 1.5M 10% 4
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#16 49% Tips from a Therapist 76% 7.8K 7% 3
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#18 48% Medical Centric Podcast 74% 697K 8% 3
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#20 47% Dr. David Hawkins 72% 127K 10% 3
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#24 47% One Percent Better 72% 714K 9% 2
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#26 46% Jacob Clifford 68% 1.1M 14% 7
#27 46% Teal Swan 74% 2M 6% 2
#28 46% Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 70% 706K 10% 3
#29 46% Jimmy on Relationships 71% 1.4M 9% 6
#30 46% Aram Taghavi 72% 65.2K 8% 1
#31 46% Child Mind Institute 73% 56.9K 6% 1
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#34 46% Doc Snipes 72% 1M 7% 5
#35 45% Professor Dave Explains 72% 4.2M 6% 2
#36 45% Nordic Business Forum 72% 123K 5% 1
#37 45% Health 72% 239K 5% 1
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#40 45% Psych Boost 69% 96.2K 8% 4
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Search Queries Used

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Sprouts?

TEDx Talks (44.2M subscribers, 84% match) and TED (27.2M subscribers, 58% match) are Sprouts' biggest competitors. Psych2Go (13M subscribers, 70% match) is also a major competitor. They all share a focus on educational, psychology-related, and science-informed content that aims to explain complex ideas in accessible formats.

What type of content does Sprouts make?

Sprouts creates educational and psychology/science-oriented videos, demonstrated by titles like The Cycle of Abuse: 4 Phases of a Toxic Relationship, 5 Developmental Windows That Shape Your Life Forever, What Depression Feels Like, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders [FASD], and How New Ideas Spread. The channel uploads about 0.3 videos per week, with an average of ~18.3K views per video.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Sprouts?

We analyze Sprouts's recent videos, generate topic-relevant search queries, check YouTube search results, and compare the meaning of each channel's content to measure similarity. The result is a ranked list sorted by SERP overlap, semantic similarity, and search appearances.

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