Great Big Story YouTube channel thumbnail
Great Big Story
Subscribers 6.3M
Videos 3.4K
Views 2.8B

Channels Like Great Big Story

Great Big Story covers a wide range of human-interest topics including food, travel, biography, science, arts, history, and exploration through documentary-style content. The channel features long-form and mini documentaries, stories, and guided explorations with a global storytelling approach, publishing a large library (3,400 videos) since joining in 2015, and accumulating about 2.8 billion total views with an average of roughly 179.2k views per video.

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TEDx Talks YouTube channel thumbnail
#1

81% relevance

Subscribers 44.2M
Videos 255K
Views 8.8B
Appearances 20
SERP 100%
Similarity 69%
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High search overlap on global food culture, art and society documentary, and animal conservation stories, aligning with Great Big Story's broad storytelling focus, though TEDx's content is more lecture-driven than GBS's visual short-form style (81% match: search 100%, content 69%).

Insider Food YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 5.2M
Videos 2.1K
Views 2.2B
Appearances 12
SERP 68%
Similarity 75%
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Direct alignment on food travel documentaries and world cuisines, sharing a target audience interested in global food culture, with similar documentary content but Insider Food focuses more on quick, shareable food stories (72% match: search 68%, content 75%).

Best Ever Food Review Show YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 11.9M
Videos 834
Views 3.1B
Appearances 12
SERP 65%
Similarity 73%
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Strong overlap in food travel documentaries and world cuisines, appealing to viewers of global food culture, though BBFRS emphasizes on-the-ground tasting and street-food style (70% match: search 65%, content 73%).

Business Insider YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 10.4M
Videos 7.7K
Views 6.5B
Appearances 6
SERP 54%
Similarity 73%
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Shares interest in world cuisines and heritage crafts around the world, attracting an audience for global culture narratives, though BI combines business and investigative angles more than GBS’s vignette storytelling (65% match: search 54%, content 73%).

Travel Channel YouTube channel thumbnail
#5
Travel Channel

61% relevance

Subscribers 855K
Videos 2.6K
Views 208.9M
Appearances 6
SERP 49%
Similarity 69%
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Similar focus on world cuisines and global street food scenes, targeting travel and food enthusiasts, while Travel Channel leans more toward episodic travel programming with branded formats (61% match: search 49%, content 69%).

More Best Ever Food Review Show YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 3.7M
Videos 487
Views 941.0M
Appearances 3
SERP 31%
Similarity 78%
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Similar emphasis on food travel and world cuisines, attracting the same foodie travel audience, though it’s a broader offshoot with slightly different content depth (59% match: search 31%, content 78%).

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Content Landscape

Top competitors by match strength are TEDx Talks (81% match) and Insider Food (72% match). Both share overlapping queries with Great Big Story such as global food culture, art and society documentary, and animal conservation stories (TEDx) or food travel documentaries and world cuisines documentary (Insider Food). Best Ever Food Review Show (70% match) also competes on food travel and global food culture topics. Business Insider (65% match) and Travel Channel (61% match) add overlap around world cuisines and heritage crafts. Great Big Story has 6.3M subscribers, while TEDx Talks leads with 44.2M subscribers, Insider Food with 5.2M, and Best Ever Food Review Show with 11.9M, indicating substantial but varying audience sizes among competitors.

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#11 55% Eat See TV 71% 135K 30% 5
#12 54% OTR Food & History 76% 312K 22% 5
#13 54% DW Documentary 67% 6.4M 35% 6
#14 53% Gittemary Johansen 74% 148K 20% 1
#15 52% Condé Nast Traveler 77% 506K 15% 4
#16 51% Going Green 74% 72.5K 17% 4
#17 51% TED 73% 27.2M 19% 2
#18 51% tuv 72% 2.4M 20% 1
#19 51% EcoInnovaTech 71% 2.6K 21% 3
#20 51% Financial Times 72% 1.4M 18% 3
#21 51% Colossal Cranium 74% 928K 16% 1
#22 50% My Creative Detour 70% 4.1K 20% 1
#23 50% David Peterson 70% 49K 20% 1
#24 50% Ethan 69% 1.8K 20% 1
#25 49% PBS 69% 1.7M 19% 2
#26 49% Just Learning 67% 4.2K 21% 3
#27 49% SLICE Travel 70% 96.7K 16% 1
#28 49% Desert Critters of Arizona 68% 15.8K 20% 1
#29 48% Street Food AF 70% 37.7K 16% 3
#30 48% T’s Storytime 69% 148K 17% 3
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#37 47% Next Generation Science 68% 251K 16% 1
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#39 47% TODAY 65% 5.0M 19% 2
#40 47% Documentary Film Academy 67% 10K 16% 1
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#43 43% Mr Pollard English 62% 1.4K 16% 1

Search Queries Used

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Great Big Story?

Great Big Story's biggest competitors on YouTube are TEDx Talks (44.2M subscribers) with an 81% match, Insider Food (5.2M subscribers) with a 72% match, and Best Ever Food Review Show (11.9M subscribers) with a 70% match. They share a focus on documentary-style, informative, and entertaining short-to-long-form videos that explore ideas, culture, travel, food, and science.

What type of content does Great Big Story make?

Great Big Story creates documentary-style, short to mid-length videos on topics like food, travel, art, science, history, and culture. Upload frequency is not explicitly stated, but the channel's recent videos range in views from 12.8K to 778.2K, averaging about 179.2K views per video.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Great Big Story?

We analyze Great Big Story's recent videos, generate topic-relevant search queries, check YouTube search results, and compare the meaning of each channel's content to measure similarity. The result is a ranked list sorted by SERP overlap, semantic similarity, and search appearances.

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