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Subscribers 16.9K

Videos 55

Views 2.5M

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World View - Documentary covers history, global conflicts, economy, and geopolitics through long-form documentaries and immersive analyses. The channel emphasizes in-depth, world-focused content such as geopolitical and historical explorations, with a documentary-style approach and frequent uploads since joining in May 2025; videos typically garner hundreds of thousands of views (average ~158K per video).

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83% relevance

Subscribers 5.8M

Videos 1.3K

Views 1.0B

Appearances 20

SERP 100%

Similarity 72%

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Similar audience and topics (world history, Middle East conflicts, ancient Egypt) with high search overlap (world history documentaries, Middle East conflicts documentary) and strong content alignment (83% match overall; 72% content) indicating substantive historical storytelling like World View - Documentary.

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69% relevance

Subscribers 5.7M

Videos 964

Views 1.3B

Appearances 10

SERP 57%

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Shares interest in documentary storytelling with a focus on society and global issues (e.g., prison system documentaries) and notable search/content alignment (69% match; search 57%, content 77%), suggesting an audience overlap despite differing subject granularity.

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65% relevance

Subscribers 6.4M

Videos 1.5K

Views 923.4M

Appearances 12

SERP 44%

Similarity 80%

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Converges on economic and international relations themes (economic history, Middle East conflicts) with solid content alignment (80% content) and broad search overlap (44% search), mirroring World View - Documentary's geopolitical documentary niche.

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63% relevance

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Videos 59

Views 123.7M

Appearances 8

SERP 45%

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Targets global conflicts history and international relations analysis with good content similarity (75% content) and meaningful search overlap (45%), aligning with World View - Documentary's geopolitical documentary approach.

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63% relevance

Subscribers 16.9M

Videos 1.6K

Views 2.2B

Appearances 14

SERP 58%

Similarity 67%

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60% relevance

Subscribers 1.9M

Videos 2.7K

Views 308.3M

Appearances 3

SERP 25%

Similarity 83%

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Delivers global conflicts, nuclear politics, and Middle East politics content, showing strong content similarity (83% content) and notable search overlap (25%), indicating a shared geopolitical documentary interest with World View - Documentary.

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Discovered competitors include Timeline - World History Documentaries (83% match) and Free Documentary (69% match) as the top two by match strength. Timeline focuses on world history and Middle East conflicts, overlapping with World View in queries about world history documentaries and ancient Egypt, and has 5.8M subscribers compared to World View’s smaller base. Free Documentary overlaps on prison system documentaries, aligning with queries around global conflicts and economic history; it has 5.7M subscribers. DW Documentary (65% match) also competes, sharing overlaps in economic history and international relations. All competitors attract large audiences (millions of subscribers) and rely on similar search terms related to geopolitics, history, and international affairs, creating competition for viewers seeking deep-dive world analysis.

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#25	54%	HISTORY ▶	73%	15.2M	26%	9
#26	54%	Al Jazeera English	74%	17.5M	22%	5
#27	54%	Odyssey - Ancient History Documentaries	79%	1.0M	16%	4
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Which YouTube channels are most similar to World View - Documentary?

Timeline - World History Documentaries (83% match, 5.8M subscribers), Free Documentary (69% match, 5.7M subscribers), DW Documentary (65% match, 6.4M subscribers). All three channels produce documentary-focused content across history, geopolitics, and world events, similar to World View - Documentary.

What type of content does World View - Documentary make?

World View - Documentary creates documentary-style videos such as geopolitical analysis, historical investigations, and world histories (e.g., Iran vs Israel & USA, The Kims' Nuclear Trap, WWII financial deals, Putin’s Global Plan, ancient Egypt hieroglyphs). It averages about 158K views per video and posts with a similar frequent cadence as implied by the 'Average: 158K views/video, ~? uploads/week' note.

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