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Vsauce
Subscribers 24.7M
Videos 637
Views 6.5B

Channels Like Vsauce

Vsauce covers science, questions, education, and learning topics, exploring curiosity-driven ideas through deep-dives and thought-provoking explanations. The channel features long-form explorations on perception, time, reasoning, psychology, and reality, with a focus on epistemology and science-based mysteries. Uploads appear irregular but recent videos show high-view counts, averaging about 11.7 million views per video, with a total of 637 videos published since joining in 2007.

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#1

83% relevance

Subscribers 44.2M
Videos 255K
Views 8.8B
Appearances 19
SERP 100%
Similarity 71%
science of perception human psychology explained brain and mind science

They overlap with Vsauce in exploring brain and mind science and perception topics through talks that audiences search for as 'science of perception' and 'human psychology explained', reflected by high search (100%) and strong content alignment (71%).

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#2

72% relevance

Subscribers 22.4M
Videos 2.3K
Views 4.5B
Appearances 16
SERP 69%
Similarity 75%
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Similar to Vsauce in covering critical thinking and philosophy of mind via explained concepts like perception science, driven by strong content alignment (75%) and solid search overlap (69%).

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#3

63% relevance

Subscribers 16.9M
Videos 1.6K
Views 2.2B
Appearances 10
SERP 52%
Similarity 71%
science of perception human psychology explained reasoning and logic

Shares Vsauce’s focus on the science of perception and reasoning/logic, with substantial search interest and strong content alignment (71%), indicating similar educational aims at explaining complex ideas clearly.

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#4

62% relevance

Subscribers 8.6M
Videos 9.9K
Views 1.0B
Appearances 10
SERP 35%
Similarity 79%
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Both address big questions about time, reality, and existence, with high content overlap (79%) and notable search interest, aligning on philosophy of reality though differing in presentation style.

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Center for Inquiry

58% relevance

Subscribers 85.8K
Videos 721
Views 15.2M
Appearances 6
SERP 21%
Similarity 83%
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Connects with Vsauce through skeptical inquiry methods and seeking evidence-based explanations, evidenced by a solid content match (83%) and relevant search interest.

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World Science Festival

56% relevance

Subscribers 1.4M
Videos 1.3K
Views 243.9M
Appearances 4
SERP 24%
Similarity 77%
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Similar to Vsauce in curating brain/mind science and curiosity-driven science content, showing strong content alignment (77%) and meaningful search overlap on perception topics.

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Content Landscape

Top competitors are TEDx Talks (83% match) and TED-Ed (72% match), followed by CrashCourse (63% match). These channels overlap with Vsauce on queries like science of perception, human psychology explained, and reasoning and logic. Vsauce has 24.7M subscribers, while TEDx Talks has 44.2M and TED-Ed has 22.4M, indicating larger subscriber bases for the competitors. The overlaps also include perception science explained and philosophy of mind, aligning with the broader curiosity and critical-thinking focus that Vsauce shares with these channels.

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#7 56% TED 75% 27.2M 26% 7
#8 55% Psych Explained
68% 118K 34% 8
#9 54% Closer To Truth 75% 665K 21% 5
#10 54% Aperture 77% 2.5M 18% 9
#11 53% Institute of Human Anatomy 71% 8.7M 28% 4
#12 52% Neuroscientifically Challenged 73% 685K 21% 6
#13 52% Easily Explained
71% 72K 23% 2
#14 52% Pursuit of Wonder 73% 3.4M 19% 7
#15 51% NOVA PBS Official
76% 1.4M 15% 6
#16 51% History of the Universe 73% 1.1M 19% 4
#17 51% Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
77% 231K 12% 4
#18 51% Philosophy Overdose
73% 217K 17% 5
#19 50% Dr. Mayim Bialik 77% 2.1M 10% 1
#20 50% Professor Dave Explains 76% 4.2M 11% 4
#21 50% Science Channel 72% 5.3M 17% 3
#22 49% Space Matters
71% 322K 17% 5
#23 49% Andrew Huberman 72% 7.4M 15% 7
#24 49% The Diary Of A CEO 74% 15.1M 12% 3
#25 49% List 25 75% 2.8M 10% 4
#26 49% EverythingProfessor 75% 350K 9% 2
#27 49% Stanford 72% 2.1M 13% 5
#28 48% MIT OpenCourseWare 72% 6.2M 12% 6
#29 48% Untapped Learning
71% 11K 13% 2
#30 48% Robert Greene
69% 2.2M 15% 2
#31 47% The Cognitive Psychologist
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#32 47% Psych2Go 71% 13M 12% 3
#33 47% LSAT Lab
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#34 47% Happy Hour Podcast
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#35 47% The Mindset Mentor Podcast 71% 819K 11% 3
#36 47% Sounds True
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#37 47% Thynksee
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#38 46% Biola University
66% 156K 17% 2
#39 46% National Geographic 69% 25.9M 13% 3
#40 46% LawNeuro.org
70% 9.3K 9% 3
#41 45% Philosophy Vibe
64% 131K 16% 2
#42 44% Kaiser Permanente
65% 64.9K 13% 1
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#44 43% LSAT Demon
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#45 42% Hua Chenyu English Subs
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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Vsauce?

Vsauce's biggest competitors on YouTube are TEDx Talks (83% match, 44.2M subscribers), TED-Ed (72% match, 22.4M subscribers), and CrashCourse (63% match, 16.9M subscribers). All three channels publish educational, science-based content aimed at explaining concepts and ideas to a broad audience, similar to Vsauce's educational questions and learning focus.

What type of content does Vsauce make?

Vsauce creates science and education content, often exploring questions and curious topics as evidenced by video titles like 'Did People Used To Look Older?', 'Do Chairs Exist?', and 'All The Ghosts You Will Be'. The channel averages about 11.7M views per video and has 0.0 uploads per week, with recent videos ranging from 3.6M to 20.2M views.

How do we determine which channels are similar to Vsauce?

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