Udemy's top 10 nearest neighbors span technology brands, tech-focused media, and education platforms — with no single neighbor pulling significantly ahead of the rest.

Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition. The shape is flat: scores run from Dropbox at 0.90 down to Emirates Airline at 0.89, a band of just 0.01 across the entire top 10. No neighbor dominates; the cluster is dense and even.

By subcategory, the top 10 breaks down as follows: Technology brands (Dropbox at 0.90, Google Analytics at 0.90) and a Magazine (Engadget at 0.90) lead the set, alongside a News Publisher (CNET News at 0.90), a Social Media brand (LinkedIn at 0.90), a Website (Codecademy at 0.90), and a single Other-category brand (Glassdoor at 0.89). Two Education brands appear — Coursera at 0.90 and, at position 10, Emirates Airline at 0.89 is the lone Airlines entry. The cross-kind finding is notable: the majority of Udemy's nearest neighbors are technology brands and tech-oriented media, not other education platforms. Only Coursera shares Udemy's own Education subcategory in the top 10.

The one genuine outlier by kind is Emirates Airline at 0.89 — an Airlines brand whose audience nonetheless maps closely onto this otherwise tech-and-learning cluster, suggesting the shared audience skews toward globally mobile, professionally oriented users regardless of the entity type.

This flat, tech-heavy neighbor set points to an audience defined less by a learning identity than by a broader professional-digital profile.