Top Dead Center

Subscribers 564K

Videos 198

Views 83.0M

Channels Like Top Dead Center

Top Dead Center covers relatable car content focused on building, buying, and driving enthusiast cars. The channel appears to feature tutorials, car builds, repairs, and project-style videos with a blend of challenge and restoration-style topics, uploading weekly and averaging about 0 min watch time per video with an average of roughly 450K views per video.

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#1

throtl

90% relevance

Subscribers 3.2M

Videos 1.4K

Views 489.0M

Appearances 20

SERP 100%

Similarity 83%

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Both target car modification builds and hot hatch projects, with a 90% search match showing strong overlap in queries like car modification builds, though Top Dead Center and throtl differ in tone and depth of build tutorials (83% content match).

#2

Donut view on YouTube ▶

87% relevance

Subscribers 9.3M

Videos 1.8K

Views 3.0B

Appearances 18

SERP 95%

Similarity 83%

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Shares a high overlap in car modification builds, hot hatch builds, and car restoration projects (87% match; search 95%), indicating similar audience and topics, but Donut’s style varies to a broader, entertainment-focused format (83% content match).

#3

Speeed view on YouTube ▶

84% relevance

Subscribers 2.1M

Videos 65

Views 87.0M

Appearances 10

SERP 91%

Similarity 79%

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Competes for audiences on car modification and restoration topics (84% match; search 91%), including budget upgrades, with content leaning toward concise, project-based videos (79% content match).

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ChrisFix view on YouTube ▶

73% relevance

Subscribers 11M

Videos 405

Views 1.9B

Appearances 12

SERP 64%

Similarity 78%

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Aligned on budget car upgrades and maintenance topics (73% match; search 64%, content 78%), but ChrisFix emphasizes hands-on repair tutorials, whereas Top Dead Center focuses more on builds and project narratives (78% content match).

#5

ReDriven

69% relevance

Subscribers 438K

Videos 786

Views 98.8M

Appearances 7

SERP 52%

Similarity 80%

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Overlaps on buying tips for affordable performance and rare/hot hatch topics (69% match; search 52%, content 80%), indicating a similar audience but ReDriven focuses more on buying and performance value, not full build diaries (80% content match).

#6

Cosmetic Up

66% relevance

Subscribers 755K

Videos 1K

Views 232.2M

Appearances 15

SERP 63%

Similarity 69%

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Shares a focus on restoration steps and cosmetic work (66% match; search 63%, content 69%), aligning on detailing aesthetics but with narrower scope than Top Dead Center’s broader build and project coverage (69% content match).

Content Landscape

The closest competitors are throtl (90% match) and Donut (87% match), both aligning on car modification builds, hot hatch builds, and car restoration projects. Speeed (84% match) also overlaps on car modification builds and restoration projects, with a budget car upgrades angle. ChrisFix (73% match) adds a focus on budget car upgrades and maintenance, while ReDriven (69% match) targets rare hot hatch buying tips and affordable performance cars. Top Dead Center has 564K subscribers, which is smaller than the major players like Donut and ChrisFix (in the millions), while channels like throtl and Speeed sit in the low-to-mid millions; all share overlapping queries around car modification, builds, and affordable performance/maintenance topics.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Top Dead Center?

Top Dead Center's biggest competitors are throtl (3.2M subscribers, 90% match), Donut (9.3M subscribers, 87% match), and Speeed (2.1M subscribers, 84% match). They share a focus on automotive content, car builds, restorations, and performance testing for car enthusiasts.

What type of content does Top Dead Center make?

Top Dead Center creates automotive content featuring modding, car challenges, repairs, and experiments, as seen in videos like We Fitted Expensive Mods To Our Sketchy M140i and £10,000 Hot Hatch Challenge. They upload about 1.4 times per week, with an average of roughly 450.5K views per video.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Top Dead Center?

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