Explorist

Subscribers 270K

Videos 9

Views 9.2M

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Explorist produces in-depth documentaries and educational videos focused on wealth, corporate finance, tech industry dynamics, and big tech scandals. The channel emphasizes thorough, quality-driven content with keywords spanning documentary, technology, business, and heists, and averages around 28K views per video with a cadence implied by recent uploads, covering topics from financial fraud to corporate rise and collapse.

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87% relevance

Subscribers 10K

Videos 21

Views 779.5K

Appearances 9

SERP 100%

Similarity 79%

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Both target audiences interested in financial crime and economic wrongdoing, with high search overlap on queries like financial fraud cases and market manipulation, and a strong content alignment around case-based explainer videos (87% match with 79% content).

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72% relevance

Subscribers 215K

Videos 89

Views 33.0M

Appearances 7

SERP 60%

Similarity 81%

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Shares interest in crime, heists, and documentary-style breakdowns (queries like crime and heists documentary and crypto heists explained) with substantial content similarity to Explorist’s investigative documentary approach (72% match; 60% search, 81% content).

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69% relevance

Subscribers 5.2M

Videos 557

Views 555.7M

Appearances 15

SERP 60%

Similarity 75%

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Aligns on corporate fraud, tech industry cycles, and billionaire-related scandals through documentary storytelling and explainer formats that cover financial misconduct and industry rise/fall (69% match; 60% search, 75% content).

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69% relevance

Subscribers 2.2M

Videos 28

Views 92.3M

Appearances 6

SERP 49%

Similarity 82%

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Targets corporate fraud and billionaire scandals with in-depth finance-focused narratives, mirroring Explorist’s investigative style and high-interest financial wrongdoing topics (69% match; 49% search, 82% content).

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66% relevance

Subscribers 22.4M

Videos 2.3K

Views 4.5B

Appearances 5

SERP 60%

Similarity 69%

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Covers wealth inequality and ethics investigations that intersect with Explorist’s financial scrutiny, offering analytical themes with a comparable educational documentary angle (66% match; 60% search, 69% content).

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65% relevance

Subscribers 313K

Videos 574

Views 31.8M

Appearances 7

SERP 46%

Similarity 78%

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Delivers financial crime stories and market manipulation cases with a similar topical focus and documentary presentation, aligning on audience interest despite stylistic differences (65% match; 46% search, 78% content).

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Top competitors by match strength are ColdFusion (69% match) and James Jani (69% match), followed by TED-Ed (66% match). ColdFusion and James Jani share overlapping queries such as corporate fraud documentaries, tech industry rise and collapse, and billionaire scandals, aligning closely with Explorist’s focus on financial fraud cases and economic crime stories. ColdFusion has 5.2M subscribers and James Jani has 2.2M, both larger than Explorist’s 270K, highlighting a gap in audience size but similar content themes; Lume (72% match) also competes on crime and heists topics with 215K subscribers, reinforcing the overlap in crime/documentary narratives.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Explorist?

Explorist's biggest YouTube competitors are Unhinged Explainer (10K subscribers, 87% match) and Lume (215K subscribers, 72% match). ColdFusion (5.2M subscribers, 69% match) is also a close competitor. They share overlap in producing documentary-style explainer content focused on technology, business, and big tech topics.

What type of content does Explorist make?

Explorist creates documentary-style and educational content, including technology and business documentaries as well as video essays. Recent videos include titles like 'How the World’s Richest Woman Got Scammed' (251.6K views) and 'The Controversial Rise of Rockstar Games' (0 views). The channel averages about 28K views per video, with what appears to be irregular upload frequency and no explicit weekly schedule provided.

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