Ordinary Things

Subscribers 1.1M

Videos 70

Views 108.5M

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Ordinary Things covers topics at the intersection of history, culture, and current affairs through explainer-style content. Its videos appear to blend education with documentary and trivia elements, likely presented as long-form deep-dives rather than shorts, and the channel posts consistently since April 2019. With 1.1M subscribers, 108.5M total views across 70 videos, the channel averages about 1.2M views per video.

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#1

TED-Ed view on YouTube ▶

83% relevance

Subscribers 22.4M

Videos 2.3K

Views 4.5B

Appearances 15

SERP 100%

Similarity 71%

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Both target viewers interested in big ideas like ethics, power structures, and post-capitalist critiques, with high search overlap on digital surveillance ethics and global power structures, mirroring Ordinary Things' thematic focus, though TED-Ed’s content style is more pedagogy-driven (71% content match) and primarily animated lessons.

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76% relevance

Subscribers 27.2M

Videos 5.5K

Views 3.1B

Appearances 13

SERP 77%

Similarity 74%

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Shares audiences around global power structures, AI/internet futures, and world order analyses; high search overlap (77%) aligns with Ordinary Things' topics, while TED's format is longer, lecture-style talks resulting in a solid 74% content match.

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65% relevance

Subscribers 44.2M

Videos 255K

Views 8.8B

Appearances 13

SERP 55%

Similarity 71%

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Catches audiences for digital surveillance ethics and AI/internet futures similar to Ordinary Things; search overlap is strong (55%), and content overlap is high (71%), though TEDx Talks vary more in speaker style and production.

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65% relevance

Subscribers 1.9M

Videos 417

Views 206.6M

Appearances 4

SERP 39%

Similarity 82%

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Targets post-capitalist critique and climate-politics intersections, yielding solid search overlap (39%) and strong content alignment (82%), indicating a like-minded but more opinionated format.

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62% relevance

Subscribers 1.5M

Videos 1.5K

Views 218.9M

Appearances 5

SERP 40%

Similarity 76%

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Focuses on wealth and economic inequality, matching Ordinary Things on wealth-gap consequences and inequality critique; search overlap is moderate (40%), with a high content alignment (76%) given similar analytical themes.

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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell view on YouTube ▶

62% relevance

Subscribers 25.1M

Videos 349

Views 3.6B

Appearances 5

SERP 44%

Similarity 74%

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Covers societal decline, AI/internet futures, and climate/politics themes with thematic resonance to Ordinary Things; searches overlap (44%) and content similarity is solid (74%), though Kurzgesagt uses concise animated explainers.

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Discovered competitors include TED (83% match) and TED-Ed (76% match), both tying to overlapping queries such as digital surveillance ethics, global power structures, AI and internet future, and post capitalism critique. TEDx Talks (65% match) also aligns with similar themes. In terms of size, Ordinary Things has 1.1M subscribers, while TED (27.2M) and TED-Ed (22.4M) vastly exceed it, with Second Thought (1.9M) and Robert Reich (1.5M) closer in scale. The channels share queries related to societal decline analysis, political economy critique, and media or information governance, indicating a competitive space around education-driven analyses of power, technology, and culture.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Ordinary Things?

Ordinary Things' biggest competitors on YouTube are TED-Ed (83% match, 22.4M subscribers), TED (76% match, 27.2M subscribers), and TEDx Talks (65% match, 44.2M subscribers). They share a focus on educational, explanatory, and factual content presented in concise videos.

What type of content does Ordinary Things make?

Ordinary Things creates educational explainer videos about history, facts, and everyday topics, with titles such as The Year Reality Ended, Everything is Gambling Now, Doordash Decadence is Killing Me, Will A.I. Slop Kill the Internet?, and MUSSOLINI: How Fascists Win & Lose. The channel averages about 1.2M views per video and posts with an irregular frequency described as ~? uploads per week.

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