Todd Koch

Subscribers 12.6K

Videos 55

Views 785.3K

Channels Like Todd Koch

Todd Koch focuses on blacksmithing and bladesmithing, featuring tutorials, project videos, tool reviews, and beginner guidance. Content titles emphasize forging from scrap, learning forging, and practical projects like knives, axes, tongs, and tool-making, with keywords highlighting beginner-friendly topics. The channel appears to post a steady stream of videos with an average of around 40.6K views per video, reflecting ongoing educational and project-driven content since joining in 2022.

Results last updated 3 months ago.

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#1

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93% relevance

Subscribers 391K

Videos 1K

Views 49.9M

Appearances 30

SERP 100%

Similarity 88%

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Both target beginners in blacksmithing with high-search overlap on 'blacksmithing basics' and 'beginners blacksmithing', and share strong content focus on bladesmithing tutorials, resulting in a 93% match driven by similar beginner-friendly tutorial content.

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#2

Black Bear Forge II view on YouTube ▶

87% relevance

Subscribers 290K

Videos 250

Views 139.5M

Appearances 18

SERP 84%

Similarity 88%

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Similar to Todd Koch in appealing to beginners with queries like 'blacksmithing basics' and 'beginners blacksmithing' and producing bladesmithing tutorials, giving an 87% match due to overlapping beginner-oriented content and tutorials.

#3

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78% relevance

Subscribers 3M

Videos 1.1K

Views 622.9M

Appearances 30

SERP 75%

Similarity 81%

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Alec Steele shares the same entry points for beginners with 'blacksmithing basics' and 'bladesmithing tutorials' searches, and his longer-form blade and forging projects align content-wise, yielding a 78% match.

#4

Mystic Mountain Forge

75% relevance

Subscribers 50.4K

Videos 463

Views 10.4M

Appearances 17

SERP 54%

Similarity 89%

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Overlaps with Todd Koch on bladesmithing tutorials and knife making for beginners, but emphasizes rebar tool forging and more varied project style, resulting in a 75% match with high content alignment but lower search alignment for Todd’s specific queries.

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72% relevance

Subscribers 402K

Videos 678

Views 54.7M

Appearances 18

SERP 55%

Similarity 83%

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Both channels target beginners in knife making and feature project-focused forging content, but Sorrells also emphasizes tool reviews (belt grinder, anvil), producing a 72% match due to overlapping audience yet broader gear emphasis.

#6

Knives Project

69% relevance

Subscribers 473K

Videos 271

Views 222.2M

Appearances 16

SERP 46%

Similarity 85%

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Similar emphasis on beginners blacksmithing and knife-making from scrap, with overlapping searches for 'beginners blacksmithing' and 'forging knife from scrap', plus a content focus on scrap-based knife making, giving a 69% match.

Content Landscape

Discovered competitors include Black Bear Forge (93% match) and Black Bear Forge II (87% match), as well as Alec Steele (78% match). These channels share overlapping queries such as blacksmithing basics, beginners blacksmithing, and bladesmithing tutorials. Todd Koch has 12.6K subscribers, while Black Bear Forge and Black Bear Forge II have 391K and 290K subscribers respectively, and Alec Steele has about 3M subscribers, illustrating a wide gap in audience size. The top competitors are connected to Todd Koch through similar topics like beginner forging, knife making, and tool forging, indicating competition in the same informational and project-based search space.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Todd Koch?

Black Bear Forge — 93% match, 391K subscribers; Black Bear Forge II — 87% match, 290K subscribers; Alec Steele — 78% match, 3M subscribers. All three channels create blade and metalworking content focused on blacksmithing, bladesmithing, and forging projects.

What type of content does Todd Koch make?

Todd Koch creates blacksmithing and bladesmithing content, with videos like forging knives from scrap, how to start forging, and forging tools. Uploads appear to be multiple per week, with recent videos ranging from 23.1K to 240.8K views and an average around 40.6K views per video.

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