The Proper People

Subscribers 1.6M

Videos 309

Views 181.4M

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The Proper People explores and documents abandoned buildings, industrial ruins, mansions, asylums, and other historic sites around the world, presenting deep-dives and explorations through documentary-style videos. Their content comprises long-form explorations and time-capsule style investigations, with a focus on urban exploration, architecture, and haunting atmospheres. They publish content regularly, averaging around 0 min per video in view duration but about 899.9K views per video, across 309 published videos since joining in 2014.

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89% relevance

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Videos 950

Views 607.5M

Appearances 20

SERP 100%

Similarity 82%

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Both channels target urban exploration audiences and rank highly for asylum-related and Kirkbride-type explorations (asylum and kirkbride asylum queries) with a strong overlap in content focusing on abandoned places, yielding an 89% match overall and a high search overlap (100%) though content similarity is slightly lower (82%).

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TP Urbex view on YouTube ▶

74% relevance

Subscribers 752K

Videos 1.6K

Views 473.3M

Appearances 12

SERP 54%

Similarity 87%

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Shares a broad urban exploration remit centered on abandoned buildings and asylums, aligning on key searches like abandoned buildings and asylums exploration, and demonstrates strong content overlap (87%) despite a moderate overall match (74%).

#3

BigBankz

73% relevance

Subscribers 748K

Videos 393

Views 135.5M

Appearances 12

SERP 58%

Similarity 83%

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72% relevance

Subscribers 1.3M

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Appearances 8

SERP 48%

Similarity 88%

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Appearances 16

SERP 48%

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Videos 1.8K

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Appearances 10

SERP 46%

Similarity 86%

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Targets abandoned and historic corporate/industrial sites, overlapping with The Proper People on mansion and defunct corporate headquarters queries, yielding an 86% content match and a 70% overall similarity via shared audience interests.

Content Landscape

Top competitors by match strength are Exploring With Josh (89% match) and TP Urbex (74% match). They share overlapping queries such as asylums exploration, kirkbride asylum exploration, and abandoned buildings, aligning with The Proper People’s focus on abandoned places and urban exploration. Other close competitors include BigBankz (73% match) and 2swag (72% match), who also cover mansion abandoned exploration, historic estates exploration, and power plant topics. The Proper People have 1.6M subscribers, while Exploring With Josh has 4.8M and TP Urbex has 752K, indicating larger reach for the top competitor but similar content themes and search interests across all channels.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to The Proper People?

The Proper People's biggest competitors on YouTube are Exploring With Josh (89% match, 4.8M subscribers) and TP Urbex (74% match, 752K subscribers). BigBankz (73% match, 748K subscribers) is also a competitor. They all focus on urban exploration and abandoned places, similar to The Proper People’s niche.

What type of content does The Proper People make?

The Proper People create urbex and abandoned places exploration content, as indicated by video titles like Inside a Defunct 1980's World HQ Building - TRW Lyndhurst, Exploring LA's Abandoned General Hospital, and Exploring an Abandoned Nuclear Waste Facility. They average about 899.9K views per video. Upload frequency is described as roughly a weekly cadence, with ~uploads per week.

How do we determine which channels are similar to The Proper People?

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