Sam Denby

Sam Denby 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.

Sam Denby
Personal information
Born (1998-03-17) March 17, 1998[1]
Washington, D.C., U.S.
NationalityAmerican
YouTube information
Channels
Website
Years active2015–present
GenreEducational entertainment
Subscribers
  • 3.74 million (Wendover Productions)
  • 2.34 million (Half as Interesting)
  • 402 thousand (Jet Lag: The Game)
  • 162 thousand (Extremities)
  • 56 thousand (Sam from Wendover)
  • 14.6 thousand (Showmakers)
Total views
  • 576 million (Wendover Productions)
  • 508 million (Half as Interesting)
  • 18.44 million (Jet Lag: The Game)
  • 1.34 million (Extremities)
  • 703 thousand (Sam from Wendover)
  • 157 thousand (Showmakers)
100,000 subscribers 2016
1,000,000 subscribers 2018
Last updated: January 7, 2023

Career

Wendover Productions

As of December 12, 2022, Denby's YouTube channel Wendover Productions has over 3.7 million subscribers and more than 557 million total video views.[2] His videos most commonly feature the topics of logistics, most notably those of aviation, as well as geography and economics.[3] The Wendover Productions video about tourism in Iceland received significant attention from Iceland's national newspapers.[4] Wendover Productions is based in Aspen, Colorado.[5]

Half as Interesting

In 2017, Denby created Half as Interesting, a lighter and satirical continuation of a Wendover Productions series titled That Wikipedia List, which now has over 500 million total views.[6]

Extremities

In June 2019, Denby created a scripted podcast called Extremities about the logistics of living in the world's most isolated populated locations.[7] The show's format has since been modified into short documentaries exclusive to the streaming service Nebula with the same concept.

Jet Lag: The Game

"It is a brutally exhausting show to film. Imagine a bad travel day where you end up waiting between flights on connections and going in and out of airports all day."[8]

Sam Denby

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.[8] Inspired by The Amazing Race, 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.[8] Jet Lag's second season, Circumnavigation, was a race to circumnavigate the world in 100 hours,[8] while the third, Tag EUR It, is a game of tag played across Western Europe.[‡ 1] 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. All travel on the show is offset by a factor of 10 via Gold Standard carbon credits.[9] As of January 11, 2023, the channel has over 405,000 subscribers and more than 18.69 million total video views.[10]

Personal life

Denby was "born and raised" in Washington, D.C.[‡ 2] In 2018, Denby stated he had been living in Edinburgh, Scotland for the past two years for university studies [‡ 3]: 1:32  As of April 2018, he was studying international business.[‡ 4] Denby stated he has lived in Colorado as of 2020, somewhere in the mountains outside Denver.[‡ 5][‡ 6]

References

Citations
  1. In https://nebula.tv/videos/hai-we-have-no-idea-why-hes-using-the-ruler at timestamp 1:00, it says
  2. "Wendover Productions - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  3. Dudley, David (August 19, 2020). "Bad Trains, Explained". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
  4. Hafstað, Vala (June 7, 2019). "Iceland's Tourism Explosion Explained". Iceland Monitor. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
  5. Reynolds, Jacqueline. "Film takes a deep dive into river issues". Aspen Daily News. Retrieved September 21, 2022.
  6. "Half as Interesting - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved January 20, 2023.
  7. Scott, Richard (July 5, 2019). "'Extremities': taking you to the world's most isolated places" (Audio). Radio New Zealand. The Podcast Hour. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
  8. Anderson, Pearse. "This Travel Game Takes Connect Four to the Extreme". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
  9. Griffiths, James (September 16, 2022). "Are travel-centric reality shows like The Amazing Race worth their carbon footprint?". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
  10. "Jet Lag: The Game - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved December 22, 2022.

Primary sources

In the text these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):

  1. "We Played a 72 Hour Game of Tag Across Europe". Jet Lag: The Game. YouTube. Retrieved September 21, 2022.
  2. "We Raced To Visit The Most US States In 100 Hours". YouTube. Retrieved December 17, 2022.
  3. Denby, Sam (March 27, 2018). A Moderately Successful Face Reveal (Video). Sam from Wendover. Event occurs at 1:25. Retrieved April 6, 2018 – via YouTube.
  4. Denby, Sam (March 27, 2018). "Economics has too much math. I study International Business". Reddit. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
  5. "Life update: I've moved to Colorado Pictured: Skiing, a week ago". Instagram. Archived from the original on December 24, 2021. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  6. "I don't live in Denver—I live up in the mountains". Reddit. April 19, 2022. Retrieved June 11, 2022.

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