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neo
Subscribers 3.0M
Videos 80
Views 393.9M

Channels Like neo

Neo produces educational short documentaries covering topics such as politics, geography, media, society, and more, with a focus on film, music, art, animation, essay, analysis, and filmmaking. The channel uses a deep-dive educational style (tutorial/essay-like content) and publishes videos that average about 5M views each, with 80 videos published since joining Feb 17, 2016, totaling 393.9M views across 3M subscribers.

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#1

83% relevance

Subscribers 581K
Videos 1.5K
Views 303.7M
Appearances 14
SERP 100%
Similarity 72%
naval engineering history naval engineering milestones

Both appeal to naval engineering history and milestones, evidenced by a high search alignment (100% for Drachinifel on naval engineering history/milestones) and a strong content overlap (72%), signaling similar subject focus with Drachinifel delivering narrower, history-first naval topics.

National Geographic YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 25.9M
Videos 11K
Views 6.9B
Appearances 14
SERP 94%
Similarity 70%
world history documentaries exploration and archaeology rescue and survival stories

Shares broader world history, exploration, archaeology, and survival storytelling queries (high search; 94%), with a sizable but less specialized content match (70%), indicating similar audience interest in grand, exploratory, and historical narratives without identical presentation style.

Urban Planner Explained YouTube channel thumbnail
Subscribers 50.7K
Videos 33
Views 4.4M
Appearances 12
SERP 57%
Similarity 74%
urban planning failures

Uses urban planning failure topics that align with neo’s analytical, systems-oriented approach; notable content overlap (74%) but lower search alignment (57%), suggesting a similar analytical audience yet more domain-specific focus on urban design rather than maritime history.

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#4
Expedition Bible

60% relevance

Subscribers 1.1M
Videos 52
Views 85.4M
Appearances 7
SERP 42%
Similarity 73%
exploration and archaeology archaeology and exploration

Targets exploration and archaeology queries (strong search interest at 42%), with a high content overlap (73%), indicating a shared curiosity about discovery and historical contexts, though Expedition Bible centers more on biblical archaeology than neo’s engineering history.

MegaBuilds YouTube channel thumbnail
#5

58% relevance

Subscribers 1.6M
Videos 301
Views 414.7M
Appearances 5
SERP 32%
Similarity 76%
infrastructure megaprojects

Focuses on infrastructure megaprojects (low search alignment for this topic at 32%) but high content similarity (76%), implying neo and MegaBuilds appeal to similar audiences around large-scale engineering, though MegaBuilds emphasizes project-scale content over naval history.

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#6

58% relevance

Subscribers 6.6M
Videos 731
Views 1.9B
Appearances 2
SERP 33%
Similarity 75%
disaster analysis reports disaster analysis case

Disaster analysis and case-style content align with neo’s interest in failure, hazard, and engineering contexts; search overlap is modest (33%) but content overlap is high (75%), indicating overlapping thematic territory with different presentation emphasis.

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Content Landscape

Top competitors by match strength are National Geographic (79% match) and Drachinifel (83% match). Both share overlapping queries with neo such as world history documentaries, exploration and archaeology, and rescue and survival stories. Drachinifel (581K subscribers) aligns most closely on naval engineering history and milestones, while National Geographic (25.9M subscribers) leads in broader world history and exploration content. Neo has a substantially smaller audience than these giants, with 3M subscribers, far behind National Geographic and Drachinifel, highlighting a niche focus within a broader educational landscape. Other overlapping competitors include Expedition Bible (60% match) and MegaBuilds (58% match), who touch on archaeology/exploration and infrastructure megaprojects respectively.

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#8 58% Science Channel 71% 5.3M 38% 3
#9 56% TED-Ed 70% 22.4M 35% 10
#10 56% Blueprint 77% 177K 24% 3
#11 54% WatchMojo.com 74% 25.9M 23% 4
#12 54% Economics Explained 73% 2.8M 24% 5
#13 54% The Great Courses 71% 652K 28% 4
#14 53% Free Documentary - Engineering 75% 522K 21% 5
#15 53% The B1M 78% 4.0M 17% 2
#16 53% Ominous History 72% 1.5K 25% 2
#17 53% The People Profiles 72% 1.6M 24% 2
#18 53% Scary Interesting 76% 1.9M 18% 1
#19 52% WIRED 72% 12.8M 21% 3
#20 51% Biography 67% 1.1M 28% 9
#21 51% Lucasfilm 70% 299K 24% 2
#22 51% Get.factual 73% 818K 18% 1
#23 51% Jaydone History 73% 193K 18% 2
#24 51% Origin Decoder 67% 32.4K 26% 3
#25 51% Timeline - World History Documentaries 66% 5.8M 27% 6
#26 50% Inter-American Development Bank 62% 18.7K 33% 2
#27 50% Safety Memos 66% 42.9K 26% 3
#28 50% Simplilearn 67% 6.1M 25% 2
#29 50% Chief MAKOi 70% 434K 20% 4
#30 50% Adam's Axiom 72% 37.8K 17% 3
#31 50% TREY the Explainer 73% 1.1M 15% 2
#32 50% On The Move 67% 160K 24% 2
#33 49% The New York Times 72% 5.1M 15% 3
#34 49% JeffHK 72% 503K 16% 3
#35 49% Frontier Rescue Stories 68% 10.1K 21% 2
#36 49% TLDR News Global 72% 1.1M 15% 1
#37 49% TEDx Talks 66% 44.2M 22% 2
#38 48% The Art of Being Human 65% 17.9K 22% 2
#39 48% Dr. Smiti Nathan 71% 24.2K 15% 1
#40 47% Science Sauce 64% 120K 22% 2
#41 47% Digital Transformation with Eric Kimberling 63% 549K 24% 3
#42 47% UsefulCharts 68% 2.0M 15% 1
#43 46% Made In History 66% 219K 15% 3
#44 44% HSE Crew 63% 80.1K 15% 1
#45 43% HSE STUDY GUIDE 62% 369K 14% 2

Search Queries Used

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to neo?

neo's biggest YouTube competitors are Drachinifel (83% match, 581K subscribers), National Geographic (79% match, 25.9M subscribers), and Urban Planner Explained (67% match, 50.7K subscribers). They share a focus on informative, analysis-driven content that covers history, geography, and design concepts, often with documentary or explanatory styles.

What type of content does neo make?

neo creates documentary-style and essay-like content covering film, music, art, animation, and analysis of filmmaking. The channel averages around 5M views per video and has about 3M subscribers; uploads occur at a pace described as roughly ~? uploads per week, with recent videos including 'How the World Trade Center Was Rebuilt' (11M views), 'The Impossible Landing' (1.1M), and other topics.

How do we determine which channels are similar to neo?

We analyze neo'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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