Silas Mercer

Subscribers 30.2K

Videos 10

Views 1.3M

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Silas Mercer covers frontier survival, off-grid living, bushcraft, and primitive skills through tutorial-style videos. Content features how-to guides, survival myths debunked, and practical frontier techniques, with an emphasis on lifelong outdoors experience. The channel posts roughly 6.5 uploads per week, averaging around 144.4K views per video, and has accumulated 1.3M total views from 30.2K subscribers.

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83% relevance

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Views 25.9M

Appearances 11

SERP 100%

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80% relevance

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SERP 86%

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73% relevance

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SERP 70%

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72% relevance

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Appearances 9

SERP 54%

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68% relevance

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Appearances 3

SERP 52%

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Appearances 5

SERP 50%

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Top competitors include Outdoor Boys (80% match) and Robin Greenfield (83% match) who share overlapping queries such as frontier survival, primitive fire making, shelter building, and foraging basics. TA Outdoors (73% match) also competes on bushcraft skills and backcountry survival, while Wild America (72% match) and Woodsbound Outdoors (68% match) align on frontier survival and mountain man or preppers topics. Silas Mercer has about 30.2K subscribers, which is significantly smaller than Robin Greenfield (477K) and Outdoor Boys (19.3M), indicating a large gap in audience size despite overlapping content themes.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Silas Mercer?

Robin Greenfield (83% match, 477K subscribers) and Outdoor Boys (80% match, 19.3M subscribers) are Silas Mercer’s biggest competitors on YouTube. TA Outdoors (73% match, 2.5M subscribers) also ranks highly. They share a focus on outdoor living, survival, and frontier-era lifestyle topics similar to Silas Mercer.

What type of content does Silas Mercer make?

Silas Mercer makes outdoor, survival, and frontier-era themed content based on video titles such as ENDLESS Heat Without Electricity, The Hunting Myth That Killed More Frontier Men Than Bears Ever Did, 25 "Outlawed" Self-Defense Weapon Every Mountain Man Strapped to His Belt, The Camping Myth That Killed More Frontier Men Than Wolves Ever Did, and 25 Forgotten Safe-Room Tricks That Protected Families Before Police Could Arrive. He uploads frequently, with an average of 6.5 uploads per week, and his videos average about 144.4K views per video.

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