YESTERDAY

Subscribers 86K

Videos 18

Views 7.7M

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YESTERDAY covers historical and mystery topics through in-depth explorations of events, wars, conspiracies, and survival stories. The channel presents long-form, narrative videos that dive into things viewers may have heard of but not fully understood, with an emphasis on memorable storytelling and analysis. Uploads occur about once per week, with videos averaging around 38 minutes and roughly 611.8K views per video.

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#1

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83% relevance

Subscribers 15.2M

Videos 11K

Views 5.0B

Appearances 16

SERP 100%

Similarity 72%

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Similar to YESTERDAY in covering history and mysteries, with very high search overlap on queries like unsolved mysteries history and myths and legends history, though YESTERDAY’s content style is more narrative/modern history storytelling (83% match in search, 72% content).

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76% relevance

Subscribers 1.8M

Videos 141

Views 260.9M

Appearances 9

SERP 68%

Similarity 82%

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Shares historical focus and theme of military history and ancient wars, with high alignment on queries such as ancient wars explained and military history analysis, but YESTERDAY differs in visual presentation and explainer style (68% search, 82% content).

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Extreme Survival Stories view on YouTube ▶

74% relevance

Subscribers 23.5K

Videos 66

Views 3.9M

Appearances 15

SERP 72%

Similarity 75%

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Overlaps strongly on survival storytelling themes and extreme survival stories, reflecting similar audience interests as YESTERDAY’s thrill/hacts, though YESTERDAY centers more on historical events (72% search, 75% content).

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72% relevance

Subscribers 256K

Videos 66

Views 30.4M

Appearances 10

SERP 68%

Similarity 75%

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Connects through unsolved mysteries and extreme survival topics, sharing audience with YESTERDAY via queries like unsolved mysteries history, but its focus includes naval depth/treasure angles that differ in content approach (68% search, 75% content).

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Scary Interesting view on YouTube ▶

70% relevance

Subscribers 1.9M

Videos 264

Views 311.5M

Appearances 12

SERP 58%

Similarity 78%

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Targets similar interest in terrifying survival stories and extreme events, aligning on survival and horror-related queries, while YESTERDAY has a broader historical emphasis (58% search, 78% content).

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WatchMojo.com view on YouTube ▶

70% relevance

Subscribers 25.9M

Videos 32K

Views 17.9B

Appearances 9

SERP 62%

Similarity 75%

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Competes on myths, legends, and military campaigns overview, attracting similar search queries, yet YESTERDAY’s narrative style is more documentary/history-forward (62% search, 75% content).

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Top competitors by match strength are HISTORY (83%), The Paint Explainer (76%), and Scary Interesting (70%). They share overlapping queries such as unsolved mysteries history, world war overview, myths and legends history, terrifying historical events, and military history analysis. History has the largest audience with 15.2M subscribers, followed by The Paint Explainer with 1.8M and Scary Interesting with 1.9M; YESTERDAY has 86K subscribers, placing it well behind these leaders. The common ground is narrative history and analysis of wars, mysteries, and historical events.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to YESTERDAY?

HISTORY — 83% match, 15.2M subscribers; The Paint Explainer — 76% match, 1.8M subscribers; Extreme Survival Stories — 74% match, 23.5K subscribers. All three share a focus on historical, survival, and mystery topics with a narrative-driven explainer style similar to YESTERDAY.

What type of content does YESTERDAY make?

YESTERDAY creates history-, mystery-, and survival-themed explainer videos, as evidenced by titles like Why the Mariana Trench Still Terrifies Scientists (1.4M views) and How Bin Laden Planned 9/11 (1.3M views), with an average of 611.8K views per video and about 1.0 upload per week.

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