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Not Just Bikes
Subscribers 1.4M
Videos 139
Views 198.3M

Channels Like Not Just Bikes

Not Just Bikes covers urban planning, city design, and sustainable transportation topics, with a focus on Dutch cities, cycling infrastructure, public transit, and urban experiences. The channel uses a mix of deep-dives and explanatory discussions, leveraging keywords like urban planning, mobility, and sustainable transportation, with frequent exploration of how city design affects daily life. It publishes 139 videos since joining in 2019, and averages around 4.2 million views per video across its library.

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Urban Planner Explained YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 50.7K
Videos 33
Views 4.4M
Appearances 20
SERP 100%
Similarity 80%
urban planning city design street design critique

They target the same urban planning queries (urban planning, city design, street design critique) with a high search overlap and closely aligned content focus, making them a direct topic-similar competitor despite a smaller audience.

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Subscribers 739K
Videos 200
Views 91.3M
Appearances 22
SERP 57%
Similarity 83%
urban planning city design suburban sprawl

Shares key queries (urban planning, city design, suburban sprawl) and has high content overlap in presenting city design concepts, though Not Just Bikes often emphasizes street-level accessibility and transportation policy.

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#3

65% relevance

Subscribers 27.2M
Videos 5.5K
Views 3.1B
Appearances 14
SERP 55%
Similarity 72%
urban planning walkability cities urban planning policies

Both cover urban planning themes like walkable cities and planning policy, with solid search overlap; TED broadens to a wide lecture-format audience, while Not Just Bikes maintains a more focused transportation-centric lens.

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Subscribers 401K
Videos 234
Views 45.9M
Appearances 13
SERP 35%
Similarity 85%
suburban sprawl car-centric cities walkability cities

Competes on topics like suburban sprawl and walkability and shares a similar audience interest, but CityNerd often leans more toward rapid-fire critiques of car-centric design and local policy than Not Just Bikes' longer-form, analysis-driven style.

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#5
Oh The Urbanity!

59% relevance

Subscribers 112K
Videos 195
Views 15.1M
Appearances 9
SERP 25%
Similarity 81%
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Targets bicycle infrastructure, density housing, and missing middle housing—high content overlap with Not Just Bikes' topics, though Oh The Urbanity! tends to explore these at a more design-technical level.

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#6

59% relevance

Subscribers 44.2M
Videos 255K
Views 8.8B
Appearances 20
SERP 45%
Similarity 68%
urban planning street design critique public transportation

Similar focus areas (urban planning, street design critique, public transportation) with notable search overlap; however, TEDx Talks features a variety of speakers and styles, reducing content alignment with Not Just Bikes' signature voice.

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Content Landscape

Top competitors by match strength are Urban Planner Explained (88% match) and City Beautiful (73% match). Both channels overlap with Not Just Bikes on queries such as urban planning, city design, and street design critique. TED (65% match) and Ray Delahanty | CityNerd (65% match) also compete on related topics like walkability, urban planning policies, and suburban sprawl. Oh The Urbanity! (59% match) adds overlap on bicycle infrastructure and density housing. Not Just Bikes has 1.4M subscribers, while Urban Planner Explained has about 50.7K and City Beautiful about 739K, with TED at 27.2M and CityNerd at 401K, indicating a wide range of audience sizes among competitors. The common queries among these competitors include urban planning, city design, walkability, and suburban/sprawl-related topics.

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Search Queries Used

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Not Just Bikes?

Urban Planner Explained — 88% match, 50.7K subscribers; City Beautiful — 73% match, 739K subscribers; TED — 65% match, 27.2M subscribers. All three produce informative, design/urban planning or policy-focused content that analyzes cities and transportation, aligning with Not Just Bikes' emphasis on urban planning, mobility, and sustainable transport.

What type of content does Not Just Bikes make?

Not Just Bikes creates discussion and analysis about urban planning, transportation, cycling, and sustainable cities, with video titles referencing suburbia, city design, Dutch bikes, and the problems with roads and trucks. Upload frequency and exact cadence aren’t specified, but recent videos average around 6–8 million views, and the channel has an average of about 4.2 million views per video across uploads.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Not Just Bikes?

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