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TED-Ed
Subscribers 22.4M
Videos 2.3K
Views 4.5B

Channels Like TED-Ed

TED-Ed covers educational topics across science, history, literature, psychology, and more through award-winning animated shorts and supplementary materials, functioning as tutorials and explainers. The channel emphasizes bite-sized lessons, curious explorations, and animated explanations, with an average of about 194.4K views per video and an active publishing pace of roughly 3.0 uploads per week since joining on Mar 1, 2011, totaling 2,300 videos and 4.5B total views.

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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 25.1M
Videos 349
Views 3.6B
Appearances 14
SERP 99%
Similarity 72%
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High search overlap in educational animation and science explainer queries, and similar biology/history topics, with a strong content match through animated explainers (83% overall match; 99% search, 72% content).

Peekaboo Kidz YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 7.3M
Videos 1K
Views 2.7B
Appearances 25
SERP 100%
Similarity 71%
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Aligns with TED-Ed on science education and animated biology lessons, sharing searches for science education videos, with a solid content overlap through kid-friendly animated explainers (83% overall; 100% search, 71% content).

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74% relevance

Subscribers 16.9M
Videos 1.6K
Views 2.2B
Appearances 17
SERP 79%
Similarity 71%
biology explainer videos psychology science short history of humanity lessons

Competes for broad educational topics including biology and history via short explainers, mirroring TED-Ed’s instructional style and historical timelines (74% overall; 79% search, 71% content).

Neuroscientifically Challenged YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 685K
Videos 202
Views 64.5M
Appearances 12
SERP 42%
Similarity 72%
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Targets neuroscience animation and simplified brain science like TED-Ed, but diverges in depth and pacing, resulting in a decent content overlap yet lower search alignment (60% overall; 42% search, 72% content).

Extra History YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 4.5M
Videos 1.2K
Views 1.6B
Appearances 8
SERP 35%
Similarity 71%
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Covers history explained with timeline animation similar to TED-Ed’s history lessons, though with different pacing and format, yielding moderate overlap in searches and strong content similarity (57% overall; 35% search, 71% content).

Insider Science YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 3.1M
Videos 649
Views 903.0M
Appearances 4
SERP 26%
Similarity 77%
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Appeals to TED-Ed’s science-minded audience with myth-busting science content, showing high content similarity but lower overall search alignment (56% overall; 26% search, 77% content).

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Content Landscape

Top competitors by match strength are Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell (83% match) and Peekaboo Kidz (83% match). Both align with TED-Ed on educational animation channels, biology explainer videos, and history of humanity lessons, while Kurzgesagt also covers extensive science explainers and biology topics. CrashCourse is also a strong competitor (74% match), sharing overlaps in biology explainer videos, psychology science short, and history lessons. Compared to TED-Ed (22.4M subscribers), Kurzgesagt holds 25.1M and CrashCourse 16.9M, with Peekaboo Kidz at 7.3M, indicating larger or comparable audiences for the top matches. All identified competitors compete for similar search queries around educational animations, science education, and history-focused shorts.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to TED-Ed?

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell — 83% match, 25.1M subscribers; Peekaboo Kidz — 83% match, 7.3M subscribers; CrashCourse — 74% match, 16.9M subscribers. All three channels are education-focused YouTube creators producing short to mid-length explainer videos across science, history, and broader educational topics, similar to TED-Ed.

What type of content does TED-Ed make?

TED-Ed creates educational explainer videos across topics like science, history, math, literature, psychology, and philosophy, using animation and concise lessons. The channel uploads about 3.0 videos per week with average views around 194.4K per video.

How do we determine which channels are similar to TED-Ed?

We analyze TED-Ed'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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