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Eater
Subscribers 4.0M
Videos 2.4K
Views 1.4B

Channels Like Eater

Eater covers food, restaurant culture, and dining topics through a mix of expert-led features, chef interviews, restaurant profiles, and culture-driven food storytelling. The channel leverages long-form and short-form formats, including deep-dives and curated lists, with a recent video catalog showing diverse topics like NYC dining, meat and seafood, and street food. It publishes content from a global culinary perspective, with an average of about 0.397 million views per video across 2,400+ published works and a broad, frequent posting cadence since joining in April 2006.

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#1

88% relevance

Subscribers 2.1M
Videos 917
Views 1.0B
Appearances 12
SERP 100%
Similarity 80%
food and dining culinary education culinary inspiration

Shares queries around food and dining with Eater and matches 100% on search but 80% on content, indicating overlapping audience with similar culinary education and inspiration themes but a slightly different presentation style.

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Subscribers 7.3M
Videos 1.8K
Views 2.1B
Appearances 18
SERP 73%
Similarity 85%
food and dining NYC food scene chef interviews

Aligns with Eater on food and dining and NYC food scene and interviews, scoring 73% in search and 85% in content, suggesting strong audience overlap with comparable chef and culture content but a distinct editorial voice.

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#3
Alexander The Guest

64% relevance

Subscribers 576K
Videos 134
Views 64.8M
Appearances 11
SERP 38%
Similarity 81%
food and dining fine dining restaurant reviews

Targets food and dining and fine dining with restaurant reviews, having 38% search overlap but 81% content overlap, meaning a similar high quality review/content style but less generic search presence.

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#4
James Andrews

59% relevance

Subscribers 107K
Videos 381
Views 23.5M
Appearances 3
SERP 23%
Similarity 83%
fine dining restaurant reviews

Covers fine dining and restaurant reviews with limited search overlap (23%) but high content overlap (83%), indicating a close content style match but a narrower query footprint.

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#5

58% relevance

Subscribers 27.2M
Videos 5.5K
Views 3.1B
Appearances 4
SERP 40%
Similarity 70%
restaurant culture restaurant industry local food movements

Addresses restaurant culture, industry, and local food movements with moderate search overlap (40%) and strong content alignment (70%), reflecting broad cultural interest but different topical emphasis.

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#6
YesChef

57% relevance

Subscribers 41.5K
Videos 233
Views 10.9M
Appearances 3
SERP 28%
Similarity 76%
chef profiles and stories

Focuses on chef profiles and stories with modest search overlap (28%) but substantial content overlap (76%), showing similar biographical culinary storytelling but less frequent matching queries.

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Content Landscape

Discovered competitors include Fallow (88% match, 2.1M subscribers) and Bon Appétit (80% match, 7.3M subscribers) as the top two by match. Both share overlapping queries with Eater around food and dining, culinary education, and culinary inspiration (Fallow) or NYC food scene and chef interviews (Bon Appétit). Alexander The Guest (64% match, 576K subscribers) and James Andrews (59% match, 107K subscribers) are smaller players in the fine dining and restaurant reviews space, further signaling a common emphasis on restaurant culture and dining experiences. TED (58% match, 27.2M subscribers) also shows overlap in restaurant culture and local food movements. Eater has 4M subscribers, which is smaller than Bon Appétit and TED but larger than Alexander The Guest and James Andrews, with competitors differing in audience size but converging on similar search queries around food culture, fine dining, and dining trends.

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#12 54% Gary Eats 73% 440K 25% 4
#13 54% Sorted Food ▶ 78% 2.9M 18% 2
#14 54% Best Ever Food Review Show ▶ 73% 11.9M 25% 4
#15 54% Nick DiGiovanni ▶ 79% 34.4M 16% 4
#16 53% KarissaEats ▶ 77% 4.8M 17% 1
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#18 52% Planet Eat 78% 1.3K 14% 1
#19 52% Donald Burns 74% 3.0K 18% 2
#20 52% Edvasian ▶ 71% 1.1M 23% 2
#21 51% TEDx Talks ▶ 65% 44.2M 31% 9
#22 51% Two Loves Studio 69% 12.5K 25% 2
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#25 50% Jacob Burton 74% 207K 15% 2
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#27 49% The New York Times ▶ 71% 5.1M 16% 3
#28 49% CNBC International ▶ 72% 1.4M 14% 1
#29 49% Skyler Burt 71% 271K 15% 3
#30 48% Darryl Kinson 71% 43K 14% 1
#31 48% Learn English by Pocket Passport 69% 197K 16% 2
#32 48% Startup CPG 70% 6.5K 14% 1
#33 48% Travel Channel ▶ 70% 855K 14% 1
#34 47% WholeFoodsMarket 70% 96.3K 14% 1
#35 47% Visual Education 65% 607K 20% 4
#36 47% Global Restaurant Investment Forum 69% 2.4K 14% 1
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#39 46% The Atlantic 68% 912K 14% 1
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#42 45% Through My Lens ▶ 64% 448K 17% 1
#43 45% Just Learning 63% 4.2K 17% 1
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#45 43% Social Samy Walks 63% 9.1K 14% 1
#46 43% SARE Outreach 62% 17.8K 14% 1

Search Queries Used

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to Eater?

Fallow — 88% match, 2.1M subscribers; Bon Appétit — 80% match, 7.3M subscribers; Alexander The Guest — 64% match, 576K subscribers. The top competitors share a focus on food culture, cooking techniques, and restaurant/chef-focused content similar to Eater’s topics such as chefs, restaurants, and food trends.

What type of content does Eater make?

Eater creates short- and long-form food-related videos featuring chefs, restaurant profiles, and culinary topics (e.g., burger experts, fish & chips, rare mollusks, roast chicken). Upload frequency is roughly several videos per week, with an average of about 397.4K views per video.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Eater?

We analyze Eater'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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