Sam Denby (born March 17, 1998) is an American
YouTuber, best known for creating the
edutainment YouTube channels Wendover Productions, Half as Interesting, Extremities, and Jet Lag: The Game. Across all of Denby's channels, he has accumulated more than a billion views.
Career
Wendover Productions
Denby's YouTube channel Wendover Productions has over 3.7 million subscribers and more than 557 million total video views. His videos most commonly feature the topics of
logistics, most notably those of
aviation, as well as
geography and
economics. The Wendover Productions video about
tourism in Iceland
Tourism in Iceland has grown considerably in economic significance in the past 15 years. As of 2016, the tourism industry is estimated to contribute about 10 percent to the Icelandic GDP; the number of foreign visitors exceeded 2,000,000 for the f ...
received significant attention from
Iceland's national newspapers. Wendover Productions is based in
Aspen, Colorado.
Half as Interesting
In 2017, Denby created Half as Interesting, which as of January 20, 2022 has over 500 million total views. It's meant as a lighter,
satirical
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming or e ...
continuation of a Wendover Productions playlist series entitled ''That Wikipedia List'' (TWL) which drew inspiration from
unusual articles
Of the over six million articles in the English Wikipedia there are some articles that Wikipedians have identified as being somewhat unusual. These articles are verifiable, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are a bit odd, whims ...
.
''Extremities''
In June 2019, Denby created a scripted
podcast called ''Extremities'' about the logistics of living in the world's most isolated populated locations. The show's format has since been modified into short documentaries exclusive to the streaming service
Nebula
A nebula ('cloud' or 'fog' in Latin; pl. nebulae, nebulæ or nebulas) is a distinct luminescent part of interstellar medium, which can consist of ionized, neutral or molecular hydrogen and also cosmic dust. Nebulae are often star-forming regio ...
with the same concept.
''Jet Lag: The Game''
Denby's YouTube channel ''Jet Lag: The Game'' hosts
game shows created by Denby and Half as Interesting's writers, Ben Doyle and Adam Chase.
Inspired by ''
The Amazing Race
''The Amazing Race'' is an adventure reality game show franchise in which teams of two people race around the world in competition with other teams. The ''Race'' is split into legs, with teams tasked to deduce clues, navigate themselves in forei ...
'', the first game show hosted on the channel was a variant of
Connect Four—described by
''Wired'' as "what might be the world’s largest Connect Four game ever constructed" — where the aim is to create a vertical or horizontal line of four
American states.
''Jet Lag''
's second season, ''Circumnavigation'', was a race to
circumnavigate the world in 100 hours,
while the third, ''Tag EUR It'', is a game of
tag played across
Western Europe.
The fourth season'', Battle 4 America,'' premiered on December 7, 2022 and ended on January 4, 2023, with the goal to claim the most American states in four days. The fifth season, ''Race to the End of the World'', is set in
New Zealand and premiered on March 1, 2023. All travel on the show is offset by a factor of 10 via
Gold Standard carbon credits. As of January 11, 2023, the channel has over 405,000 subscribers and more than 18.69 million total video views.
Personal life
Denby was "born and raised" in Washington, D.C.
In 2018, Denby stated he had been living in
Edinburgh, Scotland for the past two years for university studies
he was studying
international business
International business refers to the trade of goods, services, technology, capital and/or knowledge across national borders and at a global or transnational scale.
It involves cross-border transactions of goods and services between two or more ...
.
Denby stated he has lived in
Colorado somewhere near
Aspen.
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Living people
YouTube channels launched in 2010
American expatriates in Scotland
People from Washington, D.C.
Educational and science YouTubers
1998 births
American YouTubers
English-language YouTube channels