Not Just Bikes

Subscribers 1.4M

Videos 139

Views 198.3M

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Not Just Bikes covers stories of urban planning and urban experiences, focusing on topics like cycling, sustainable transportation, trains, and city design in the Netherlands. The channel blends deep-dives and commentary on how cities function, often critiquing car-centric development and suburban sprawl, with vlogs and analysis that appeal to viewers interested in urban planning, mobility, and walkable cities. It publishes a mix of long-form discussions and topical videos, and has an audience size of 1.4M subscribers and 198.3M total views across 139 videos, with an average of around 4.2M views per video.

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Urban Planner Explained view on YouTube ▶

88% relevance

Subscribers 50.7K

Videos 33

Views 4.4M

Appearances 20

SERP 100%

Similarity 80%

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Both target urban planning audiences and share queries like urban planning, city design, and street design critique; they align on content about city design but differ in style, suggesting about an 88% match driven by search overlap yet only 80% content alignment.

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#2

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73% relevance

Subscribers 739K

Videos 200

Views 91.3M

Appearances 22

SERP 57%

Similarity 83%

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They both focus on urban planning and city design with additional emphasis on suburban sprawl, yielding a 73% match driven by searches for urban planning and city design, with strong content alignment around design-focused critique.

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#3

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65% relevance

Subscribers 27.2M

Videos 5.5K

Views 3.1B

Appearances 14

SERP 55%

Similarity 72%

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TED aligns with Not Just Bikes on urban planning topics like walkability and planning policies, giving a 65% match from shared search queries and broad but varied content style in public talk formats.

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#4

Ray Delahanty | CityNerd view on YouTube ▶

65% relevance

Subscribers 401K

Videos 234

Views 45.9M

Appearances 13

SERP 35%

Similarity 85%

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Shares interest in suburban sprawl and car-centric city critiques and walkability discussions; high content similarity but lower search overlap (35%), resulting in audience overlap with similar topics but niche discovery patterns.

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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, matching Not Just Bikes on density and missing middle topics; search overlap is modest (25%) but content aligns well (81%), signaling topic interest with a distinct stylistic approach.

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#6

TEDx Talks view on YouTube ▶

59% relevance

Subscribers 44.2M

Videos 255K

Views 8.8B

Appearances 20

SERP 45%

Similarity 68%

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Similar to Not Just Bikes in covering urban planning topics and street design critique within a public speaking format, with a 59% overall match driven by shared searches and moderately aligned content style.

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Top competitors by match strength are Urban Planner Explained (88% match) and City Beautiful (73% match). Both overlap with Not Just Bikes on queries about urban planning, city design, and street design critique, with City Beautiful also touching on suburban sprawl. TED (65% match) and Ray Delahanty | CityNerd (65% match) further connect via walkability cities and suburban sprawl, while Oh The Urbanity! (59% match) aligns on bicycle infrastructure and housing topics. Not Just Bikes has 1.4M subscribers; Urban Planner Explained has 50.7K, City Beautiful has 739K, TED has 27.2M, Ray Delahanty | CityNerd has 401K, and Oh The Urbanity! has 112K, highlighting substantial size differences especially with TED. Shared queries include urban planning, city design, street design critique, and walkability cities, signaling a competitive landscape around municipal design and sustainable mobility.

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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 channels cover urban design, planning, and transportation topics, aligning with Not Just Bikes' focus on urban planning, cycling, and sustainable transport.

What type of content does Not Just Bikes make?

Not Just Bikes creates content about urban planning, cycling, and sustainable transportation, with video titles like There’s Something Wrong With Suburbia, Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous, These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us, Why City Design is Important, and Why Dutch Bikes are Better. The channel averages about 4.2M views per video and posts with a similar frequency to recent uploads (roughly multiple videos per week).

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

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