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Subscribers 4.9M

Videos 275

Views 808.2M

Channels Like Wendover Productions

Wendover Productions explains how the world works through educational videos that cover travel, economics, geography, aviation, and related topics. The channel uses tutorial/explainer style content with in-depth looks at systems like logistics, transportation infrastructure, and global trade, and releases new videos every other Tuesday, averaging around 808.2M total views across 275 videos with about 4.9M subscribers.

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Views 4.4M

Appearances 10

SERP 100%

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Both target audiences interested in transportation infrastructure and urban geography, with high search overlap (100%) and strong content alignment (74%), making them similar in topic focus though Urban Planner Explains is narrower in style.

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Views 130.6K

Appearances 9

SERP 81%

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70% relevance

Subscribers 4.1M

Videos 15K

Views 2.0B

Appearances 10

SERP 67%

Similarity 73%

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70% relevance

Subscribers 16.9M

Videos 1.6K

Views 2.2B

Appearances 9

SERP 75%

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Subscribers 6.6M

Videos 28K

Views 2.5B

Appearances 8

SERP 48%

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Videos 746

Views 199.9M

Appearances 5

SERP 48%

Similarity 73%

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Top competitors by match strength are CNBC (70% match) and CrashCourse (70% match). CNBC aligns with overlapping queries such as air travel economics, transportation infrastructure, and global shipping networks, while CrashCourse covers economic geography and urban planning/geography topics that overlap Wendover’s geography and infrastructure focus. The Wall Street Journal (64% match) also competes on air travel economics, transportation infrastructure, and global trade routes. Wendover has 4.9M subscribers, compared with CNBC’s 4.1M, CrashCourse’s 16.9M, and The Wall Street Journal’s 6.6M, illustrating that while Wendover competes with several established channels, it sits between large, general-interest outlets and niche educational creators.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Wendover Productions?

Urban Planner Explained — 84% match, 50.7K subscribers; The Logistics Brief — 77% match, 1.5K subscribers; CNBC — 70% match, 4.1M subscribers. All three channels produce educational, explanatory content related to planning, logistics, and broader world topics, similar to Wendover Productions.

What type of content does Wendover Productions make?

Wendover Productions creates educational, animated videos about aviation, geography, economics, and logistics, with topics like jet lag, how aircraft carriers work, and the economics of airline class. They average about 10.1M views per video, and their upload frequency is described as ~? uploads/week.

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