Stef YouTube channel thumbnail
Stef
Subscribers 19.2K
Videos 89
Views 1.2M

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Stef focuses on city travel, street food, and real-life experiences around the world, with a emphasis on Asia and expat life. The channel appears to blend vlogs, travel guides, and educational content related to budgeting, how to travel the world, and digital nomad life, with recent videos centered on Bangkok, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Thailand. Uploads are frequent enough to imply regular content, and the channel lists a growing library of 89 videos with a total of 1.2M views across 19.2K subscribers, indicating variable viewing per video but ongoing output from a United States-based creator who joined in May 2022.

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#1
Creative Travel Guide

83% relevance

Subscribers 84.7K
Videos 690
Views 16.8M
Appearances 19
SERP 100%
Similarity 71%
city travel Asia budget travel asia popular travel destinations asia

High overall match (83%); both target city and budget travel in Asia, sharing searches like 'city travel Asia' and 'budget travel asia,' though Stef's content style is more focused on guides while Creative Travel Guide leans broader and more list-focused (71% content similarity).

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#2

74% relevance

Subscribers 6.7M
Videos 1.2K
Views 1.4B
Appearances 21
SERP 68%
Similarity 77%
city travel Asia local life travel budget travel asia

Strong audience overlap on Asia city travel and budget travel motifs (search 68%, content 77%), indicating both attract travelers seeking immersive local experiences, with Stef differing in presentation tone but covering similar insider travel themes.

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More Best Ever Food Review Show YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 3.7M
Videos 487
Views 941.0M
Appearances 13
SERP 68%
Similarity 77%
street food travel street food guides food market tours

Significant alignment in street food and market exploration (queries 'street food travel', 'food market tours'), reflecting shared interest in Asia culinary travel, though Stef emphasizes broader destinations while the competitor centers on food experiences (search 68%, content 77%).

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#4

72% relevance

Subscribers 1.7M
Videos 137
Views 279.7M
Appearances 17
SERP 76%
Similarity 69%
city travel Asia popular travel destinations asia insider travel asia

Shared focus on city travel and popular Asia destinations (queries 'city travel Asia', 'popular travel destinations asia'), indicating overlapping destination coverage, with Stef's style differing in narrative approach (search 76%, content 69%).

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#5
Paddy Doyle

72% relevance

Subscribers 323K
Videos 702
Views 59.0M
Appearances 7
SERP 58%
Similarity 81%
city travel Asia budget travel asia insider travel asia

Converges on city and budget Asia travel plus insider travel angles (search 58%, content 81%), suggesting similar audience interested in practical travel tips and hidden-inside-scoop content, though delivered with different host personality.

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#6

70% relevance

Subscribers 11.6M
Videos 1.5K
Views 3.2B
Appearances 20
SERP 60%
Similarity 77%
street food travel local markets travel food markets travel

Overlap around street food and local markets in Asia (queries 'street food travel', 'local markets travel'), with Stef sharing audience interest in food-centered travel while Mark emphasizes global street cuisine (search 60%, content 77%).

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Content Landscape

Top competitors by match strength are Creative Travel Guide (83% match) and Drew Binsky (74% match). Creative Travel Guide shares overlapping queries such as city travel Asia, budget travel asia, and popular travel destinations asia, while Drew Binsky aligns with city travel Asia, local life travel, and budget travel asia. More Best Ever Food Review Show (73% match) and touropia (72% match) also compete on street food travel and insider travel asia-related queries. Stef has 19.2K subscribers, which is substantially smaller than the listed competitors (Creative Travel Guide 84.7K, Drew Binsky 6.7M, More Best Ever Food Review Show 3.7M, touropia 1.7M, Paddy Doyle 323K). The competition centers on city travel in Asia, street food, local life, and insider travel topics, with the top two names (Creative Travel Guide and Drew Binsky) sharing the strongest overlap in Stef’s target search queries.

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Search Queries Used

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Stef?

Creative Travel Guide — 83% match, 84.7K subscribers; Drew Binsky — 74% match, 6.7M subscribers; More Best Ever Food Review Show — 73% match, 3.7M subscribers. All three are travel-focused channels that share content about destinations, travel tips, and global exploration, similar to Stef's travel and expat themes.

What type of content does Stef make?

Stef makes travel and expat-related content, as evidenced by titles like 'FIRST TIME in Sri Lanka, COLOMBO Left Me SPEECHLESS…', 'COLOMBO is CRAZY… I Tried Living Like a Local', and 'I Found Thailand’s Most Beautiful Island?'. Uploads appear to be frequent but currently show 0 views per recent video, with an average of 0 views per video and an unclear uploads-per-week rate.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Stef?

We analyze Stef'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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