Sam Denby

Sam Denby is an American YouTube personality and podcaster, best known for creating the YouTube channels Wendover Productions and Half as Interesting.

Sam Denby
Personal information
BornSam Denby
(1997-03-18) 18 March 1997
Washington D.C., U.S.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationContent producer
Websitewendoverproductions.com
YouTube information
Channels
GenreEducational entertainment
Subscribers
  • 2.59 million (Wendover Productions)
  • 1.51 million (Half as Interesting)
  • 48,700 (Sam from Wendover)
Total views
  • 326.3 million (Wendover Productions)
  • 213.5 million (Half as Interesting)
  • 512,300 (Sam from Wendover)
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers 2016
1,000,000 subscribers 2018
Updated 14 June 2020

Career

Wendover Productions

Denby created the YouTube channel Wendover Productions on 11 February 2010. He uploaded his first video about the psychology of advertising on 31 August 2015. Denby has since uploaded hundreds of other videos. As of June 2020, he has over 2.6 million subscribers and more than 341 million total views.[1] His videos are most commonly about logistics, most notably those of aviation, as well as geography and economics.[2] His video on Tourism in Iceland received significant attention.[3]

Half as Interesting

On 31 August 2017, Denby announced the creation of a second channel called Half as Interesting.[4] The channel was launched to be a continuation of a series called "That Wikipedia List" or TWL, which had covered topics Denby chose from Wikipedia:Unusual articles, but the new channel would not be limited to that list.[4] Videos are released 3 times every 2 weeks, every Thursday and every other Tuesday at 10:30 am Eastern Time,[5] and cover various assorted topics.[6]

As of August 2020, the channel has over 1.5 million subscribers and over 236 million channel views.[6]

Other works

In March 2018, he was invited to film with scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson on his show StarTalk, where Denby, Tyson and Chuck Nice talked about the possibilities of interstellar travel.[7] This coincided with the launch of his third channel, Sam from Wendover.[8]

On June 2019, Denby created a podcast called Extremities about the logistics of living in the world's most isolated populated locations.[9][10] The first season was about Pitcairn Island, consisting of six episodes. Season 2 started on 25 September 2019 and is about Svalbard. Season 3 started on 27 November 2019 and is about Saint Helena.[11] Also, on 31 December 2019, Wendover Productions released on YouTube the documentary The World's Most Useful Airport, which documents the origins of the airport of St. Helena, the troubles with being certified for operational use, etc. alongside a segment that talks about the airport's medevac value with a testament from the mother of a patient.[12]

He was one of the original founders of the Standard creator community along with Dave Wiskus, CGP Grey, Philipp Dettmer and many other creators. Through Standard, he has released most of his content on the Nebula streaming video service, as well as one Nebula Exclusive The Final Years of Majuro[13]

Personal life

While Denby was born in Washington, D.C., he explained during the launch of his third channel that he has lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, for at least two years.[8] As of April 2018, he studies international business.[14]

References
  1. "Wendover Productions". YouTube. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  2. Dudley, David (19 August 2020). "Bad Trains, Explained". City Lab. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  3. Hafstað, Vala (7 June 2019). "Iceland's Tourism Explosion Explained". Iceland Monitor. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  4. Denby, Sam (27 March 2018). TWL is back! (But not here...) (Video). Wendover Productions. Retrieved 20 December 2019 – via YouTube.
  5. "Half as Interesting". YouTube. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  6. Patkar, Mihir (21 September 2019). "5 Fascinating and Educational YouTube Channels to Keep You Engrossed". MakeUseOf. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  7. deGrasse Tyson, Neil; Nice, Chuck; Denby, Sam (27 March 2018). Interstellar Travel with Wendover and Neil Tyson (Video). StarTalk. Retrieved 20 December 2019 – via YouTube.
  8. Denby, Sam (27 March 2018). A Moderately Successful Face Reveal (Video). Sam from Wendover. Event occurs at 1:25. Retrieved 6 April 2018 – via YouTube.
  9. Scott, Richard (5 July 2019). "'Extremities': taking you to the world's most isolated places" (Audio). Radio New Zealand. The Podcast Hour. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  10. Denby, Sam (12 June 2019). Announcing a New Podcast That Nobody Asked For (Video). Half as Interesting. Event occurs at 1:00. Retrieved 13 June 2019 – via YouTube.
  11. Denby, Sam [@wendoverpro] (28 November 2019). "Extremities season three has now started!" (Tweet). Retrieved 11 June 2020 – via Twitter.
  12. "The World's Most Useful Airport [Documentary]". Wendover Productions. 31 December 2019 – via YouTube.
  13. Hale, James (10 June 2019). "Creators Can't Always Take Risks With Their Content. That's Why YouTuber Community Standard Built Nebula — A Platform For Its Creators To Experiment". TubeFilter. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  14. Denby, Sam. "Economics has too much math. I study International Business". Reddit. Retrieved 6 April 2018.

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