@whatastory Competitors: 5 Similar YouTube Channels Analyzed (2026)
@whatastory (20,700 subs, 729 videos) is a B2B explainer-video studio channel, and the closest creators by size — @indexsy (23,800), @AswathyUshus (25,300), and @Gouri1991 (41,300) — work in completely different niches. The shared trait here is audience scale and upload tempo, not subject matter.
Channel data · captured May 16, 2026
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so the honest framing first: @whatastory's description tells you they make explainer and product demo videos for SaaS, tech, and AI companies — 1,100+ videos for 650+ clients. that's a B2B service business that uses YouTube as a portfolio and lead-gen surface, not a creator who lives or dies by their own subscriber growth. when you pull the nearest channels by subscriber count, you mostly get personal brands and lifestyle creators, because the YouTube algorithm doesn't really cluster B2B agency channels with anything. so this competitor set is a similar-audience-size cluster, not a same-niche cluster. worth keeping in mind as you read.
@indexsy out of Canada is probably the closest spiritual neighbor on this list — 23,800 subs, but the wild stat is 3,300 videos. that's a 7:1 subs-per-video ratio versus @whatastory's roughly 28:1. high-volume short-form, business and capitalism commentary based on the channel's own description, which puts them in the same broad business-YouTube lane even if the format couldn't be more different from a polished SaaS explainer. follow @indexsy if you want a sense of what the high-output entrepreneurial commentary side looks like — it's basically the inverse strategy to @whatastory's lower-volume, agency-grade production approach.
@AswathyUshus from India is bigger at 25,300 subs across just 248 videos — a 102 subs-per-video ratio, by far the most efficient on this list. her positioning is 'the elder sister you wish you had,' which translates to a personal-brand lifestyle channel built around running her own business and self-development. zero overlap on what she actually films versus @whatastory, but there's a faint thematic adjacency — she's also speaking to people trying to build something. if you're in @whatastory's audience because you're a SaaS founder, she's not in your feed. if you watch her because she runs a business, you wouldn't randomly land on a B2B explainer reel either.
@Gouri1991, also India, is the biggest channel here at 41,300 subs across 1,600 videos. school teacher, art and craft with children, yoga. so basically: not in the same internet as @whatastory. she's in this set because of subscriber proximity, and the lesson is mostly about how YouTube's similar-channel signals can stretch surprisingly far when the source channel — like @whatastory — doesn't fit a clean creator-economy mold. her audience is parents and kids; @whatastory's audience is B2B buyers. don't read this comparison as competitive, they're just both at a similar size.
@alicekoval sits at 14,900 subs and 288 videos with a beacons.ai link in the description, which is the universal sign of a personal-brand creator monetizing across platforms. country flag is unknown in the scraped data. there's a slightly tighter case for @alicekoval as adjacent than for some of the others — personal-brand creators in the productivity and business-adjacent space sometimes share an audience with anyone teaching online business growth. but again, very different format and intent from @whatastory's polished agency portfolio.
@World_is_Karagar is the smallest on this list at 12,200 subs and just 135 videos — a 90:1 subs-per-video efficiency that suggests a content strategy built on a few high-performing pieces rather than volume. the channel description is essentially empty in the scraped data, which makes it the hardest one to read from the outside. India-based. without more signal, this looks more like a similar-audience-size match than a meaningful content peer, and I wouldn't put much weight on the comparison.
if you watch @whatastory because you're scouting B2B video production approaches, honestly none of these channels will scratch the same itch — you'd be better off looking at other explainer-video studios' YouTube presences directly, since those don't get clustered algorithmically with @whatastory. if you're @whatastory the channel and you're trying to grow, the takeaway from this size cluster is that 20,700 subs across 729 uploads is a respectable but slow trajectory, and the higher-efficiency channels here (@AswathyUshus, @World_is_Karagar) got to similar or larger sizes with one-fifth the video count.
Common questions
Who are @whatastory's biggest competitors on YouTube?
Honestly, this is the trickiest question for this channel. @whatastory is a B2B video production agency, and YouTube doesn't really cluster agency channels with each other — the algorithm pairs them by audience size instead. By that measure, @Gouri1991 (41,300 subs), @AswathyUshus (25,300), and @indexsy (23,800) are the nearest neighbors. But none of them make explainer videos for SaaS companies. The realer competitive set for @whatastory's actual business is other production studios' YouTube channels, which don't show up in similar-channel scrapes because they're not algorithmically grouped.
How does @whatastory compare to @World_is_Karagar?
Both channels are in a similar size range — @whatastory at 20,700 subs versus @World_is_Karagar at 12,200 — but their content strategies are nearly opposite. @whatastory has 729 videos, suggesting steady, portfolio-style output over time. @World_is_Karagar has only 135 videos for those 12,200 subs, which is roughly 90 subscribers per upload. That's the kind of ratio you see when a channel has a few breakout pieces rather than volume. The channel description on @World_is_Karagar is essentially empty in the scraped data, so it's hard to say more about angle or audience from the outside.
What channels should I watch alongside @whatastory?
Depends what you're watching @whatastory for. If you're a SaaS founder using their videos to study explainer-video craft, watching other channels in this competitor set won't help much — try other production studios' showcase channels directly. If you're interested in business-adjacent YouTube creators around the 20K-subscriber mark, @indexsy (23,800 subs, Canada-based, 3,300 videos of capitalism commentary) is the closest fit in spirit. @AswathyUshus is worth a look if you want personal-brand business content rather than agency work.
Is @whatastory the biggest channel in their niche?
Within this competitor set, no — @Gouri1991 is bigger at 41,300 subs, and @AswathyUshus at 25,300 also edges them out. But size comparisons here are misleading. @Gouri1991 is a school teacher making art and craft content; @AswathyUshus is a lifestyle and personal-brand creator. Neither is in the B2B explainer video space at all. Within their actual niche of SaaS and tech explainer video production, @whatastory's 20,700 subscribers and stated 1,100+ videos for 650+ clients put them in a credible mid-tier studio range.
What's the difference between @whatastory and similar creators?
The biggest gap is that @whatastory isn't really a creator in the YouTube sense — it's an agency using YouTube as a portfolio. Compare upload patterns: @whatastory has 729 videos across the channel's lifetime; @indexsy has 3,300 in the same subscriber range. That kind of volume difference signals fundamentally different strategies. The similar-size creators in this set (@alicekoval, @AswathyUshus, @Gouri1991) all build personal-brand relationships with viewers. @whatastory builds a body of client work. Different goals, different content shapes, different definitions of what success on the channel even means.
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