Steven Schapiro

Subscribers 3.6M

Videos 1.4K

Views 1.7B

Channels Like Steven Schapiro

Steven Schapiro covers food-related content with a focus on prompts around dining experiences, tipping generosity, paying for others, and restaurant outreach ideas. The channel appears to blend vlogs and engagement-based concepts (e.g., visiting empty restaurants, tipping large sums, buying out businesses) with a community-oriented feel. Uploads are frequent, and the channel averages about 2.3M views per video across 1400 published videos since joining in 2016.

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#1

mike bausch

65% relevance

Subscribers 6.3K

Videos 1K

Views 847.9K

Appearances 9

SERP 45%

Similarity 79%

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Both target local restaurant outreach and promotion via videos, sharing a high content similarity (79%) on direct restaurant promotion ideas and similar search interests (45%); they appeal to small local business audiences with similar formats.

#2

BigDawsTv

63% relevance

Subscribers 10.6M

Videos 545

Views 2.9B

Appearances 4

SERP 36%

Similarity 80%

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Shares audience interest in generosity and tipping videos (queries like tip generosity ideas) with Steven Schapiro, and has strong content alignment (80%), though Steven’s approach may be more focused on philanthropy-themed dining experiences.

#3

Learn with Owner.com

62% relevance

Subscribers 39.9K

Videos 613

Views 12.1M

Appearances 7

SERP 37%

Similarity 79%

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Both emphasize promoting and supporting local eateries (queries: restaurant outreach ideas, promote/local eateries) with high content overlap (79%), indicating similar how-to and promotional content for local businesses.

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55% relevance

Subscribers 3.0M

Videos 474

Views 1.6B

Appearances 4

SERP 25%

Similarity 76%

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Similar focus on restaurant-related promotions and experiences (customers for restaurants, promote local eateries) with substantial content overlap (76%), though Danny Kim also leans into giveaways, aligning with Steven’s local-eatery engagement.

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TED view on YouTube ▶

54% relevance

Subscribers 27.2M

Videos 5.5K

Views 3.1B

Appearances 6

SERP 38%

Similarity 65%

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Shares philanthropic dining themes (philanthropy dining, charitable tipping) and similar search intent, yielding moderate content overlap (65%), reflecting a comparable interest in charity through dining.

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Beast Philanthropy view on YouTube ▶

53% relevance

Subscribers 29.2M

Videos 70

Views 1.3B

Appearances 4

SERP 26%

Similarity 71%

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Presents philanthropy in dining and charitable tipping with content closely aligned (71%), matching Steven Schapiro on charity-focused restaurant philanthropy and tipping ideas.

Content Landscape

Top competitors by match strength are BigDawsTv (63% match) and mike bausch (65% match). They share overlapping queries with Steven Schapiro such as tip generosity videos, paying strangers tips, restaurant outreach ideas, and promoting local eateries. Learn with Owner.com (62% match) and Danny Kim (55% match) also align on restaurant outreach and promoting local eateries, while TED (54% match) aligns on philanthropy and charitable tipping. Steven Schapiro has 3.6M subscribers, which is smaller than BigDawsTv (10.6M) and TED (27.2M) but larger than mike bausch (6.3K) and Learn with Owner.com (39.9K). The common thread among competitors is content around philanthropy, tipping, and supporting local dining or charitable acts.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Steven Schapiro?

Biggest competitors are BigDawsTv (63% match, 10.6M subscribers), mike bausch (65% match, 6.3K subscribers), and Learn with Owner.com (62% match, 39.9K subscribers). They share a focus on social experiments and generous or provocative philanthropy-style videos, similar to Steven Schapiro's approach of surprising or helping people with purchases and actions.

What type of content does Steven Schapiro make?

Steven Schapiro creates social experiment/charity-style videos where he interacts with empty or underutilized spaces, pays or augments for services, and documents the outcomes. Videos include titles like Finding Empty Restaurants, Then Bringing 100/200 Customers; I Made This Empty Food Stand FREE Today; Ordering/Paying 100x for Homemade Food; Buying from Artists who Undercharge, Then Paying 100x. He averages about 2.3M views per video, with recent uploads featuring 8.5M, 4.4M, 1.1M, 1.1M, and 518.9K views respectively, and appears to upload multiple times per week.

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