@kylebanks Competitors: 5 Channels Compared by Size and Cadence

@kylebanks runs a UK-based indie game dev channel at 35,900 subs across 97 videos, anchored around Farewell North, his award-winning game shipping on Steam, Xbox, Switch and PS5. The five channels surfaced as competitors here all sit in the same 21K-47K sub band, which is the algorithmic match — but it's a size match, not a niche match. None of them make indie game dev content. So if you're scouting actual competition for kyle's viewers, this isn't your list. What it IS useful for: comparing how creators in the same audience-size bracket operate across totally different niches — upload cadence, video count, geographic concentration. That comparison is genuinely interesting.

@ToolsLog (47,200 subs, 787 videos, US) is a power tools and DIY hardware channel. The thing worth noticing is the video count. They've published 787 videos to reach 47K subs — about 8x kyle's output of 97 for 36K. That's a fundamentally different production model. Kyle's pulling roughly 370 subs per video; ToolsLog is pulling roughly 60. Neither is wrong, but it tells you the channels are running on opposite philosophies. Kyle's playing the higher-craft, lower-volume game where each video has to carry more weight. ToolsLog is playing the search-and-stack game where the catalog itself is the asset. Only follow them if you're researching the high-volume DIY product review format.

@Shehzadi_003 (29,700 subs, 248 videos, India) is short-form aesthetic content — Instagram, Snapchat and WhatsApp story ideas. Pure mobile-first short video. Almost no audience overlap with a game dev channel except in the broadest 'people who use phones' sense. What's worth flagging: the 248 videos to 29K subs ratio works out to about 120 subs per video, more aligned with kyle's per-video pull than ToolsLog's. That's actually a tell about short-form — it's compounding views but not always compounding subs at the rate you'd expect. Skip unless you're studying the Indian short-form aesthetic story-template market specifically.

@msquaretech.official (46,100 subs, 85 videos, India) is the closest size-and-cadence parallel to kyle in this set. 85 videos vs kyle's 97. 46K subs vs 36K. That works out to ~540 subs per video, the highest rate in the group. Different niche (smartphone and gadget reviews vs indie game dev), different country, different language audience, but a very similar production rhythm — small catalog, high per-video pull. Worth a glance for any creator wondering 'what does the 35-50K, sub-100-video shape look like in another niche?' The answer is: it looks like you're picking topics that hit, and the catalog isn't doing the heavy lifting. The next upload is.

@RacevaClass10 (21,400 subs, 833 videos, India) is a Class 10 education channel. 833 videos to 21K subs is about 26 subs per video — the lowest rate in the group by a wide margin. That's the educational long-tail pattern: huge catalog of search-targeted videos, modest sub conversion per upload because the audience is transactional (they want the answer to today's math problem, not a relationship with the creator). Nothing in kyle's content shares this pattern. Useful as a reference for what the search-heavy education model looks like at scale, but as a competitor for indie game dev viewers, completely irrelevant.

@Harshit18Cric (36,400 subs, 6 videos, India) is the outlier and honestly the most interesting data point on this list. 36K subs from 6 videos. That's around 6,000 subs per video, roughly 16x kyle's rate. Channel is cricket. Either one or two of those six videos went genuinely viral, or the sub base accumulated through some other surface (Shorts, cross-platform, off-YouTube). For kyle specifically there's no actionable parallel — indie gamedev doesn't ride breakout-cricket-moment economics. But it's a useful reminder that sub counts at the 30-40K tier can come from radically different acquisition curves, and a public-facing sub number tells you almost nothing about how the channel got there.

If you actually watch @kylebanks for what he does, the channels to watch alongside him aren't on this list. You'd want indie dev devlog creators, game design analysis channels, solo gamedev journey content — Thomas Brush, Game Makers Toolkit, the broader Unity and Godot devlog subculture. The scraped peer set above tells you about size cohorts; it doesn't tell you about audience overlap. Worth keeping those two things straight when reading any algorithmically generated competitor list. Real audience overlap is a different signal than 'channels of similar size,' and most tools conflate the two.