Sam Denby

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 and nearly 7 million subscribers.

Sam Denby
Personal information
Born (1998-03-17) March 17, 1998[‡ 1][‡ 2]
Washington, D.C., U.S.
NationalityAmerican
YouTube information
Channels
Years active2015–present
GenreEducational entertainment
Subscribers
    • 4.05 million (Wendover Productions)
    • 2.43 million (Half as Interesting)
    • 446 thousand (Jet Lag: The Game)
    • 56 thousand (Sam from Wendover)
Total views
    • 603 million (Wendover Productions)
    • 538 million (Half as Interesting)
    • 25 million (Jet Lag: The Game)
    • 716 thousand (Sam from Wendover)
Website
100,000 subscribers2016
1,000,000 subscribers2018
Last updated: March 26, 2023

Career

Wendover Productions

Created in 2010, Denby's primary channel is Wendover Productions. As of May 14, 2023, that channel has over 4.05 million subscribers and more than 603 million total video views.[1] His videos most commonly feature the topics of logistics, most notably those of aviation, as well as geography, economics,[2] and military. The Wendover Productions video about tourism in Iceland received significant attention from Iceland's national newspapers.[3] Wendover Productions is based in Aspen, Colorado.[4]

Extremities

In June 2019, Denby created a scripted podcast called Extremities about the logistics of living in the world's most isolated and populated locations.[5] 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."[6]

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.[6] 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.[6] Jet Lag's second season, Circumnavigation, was a race to circumnavigate the world in 100 hours,[6] while the third, Tag EUR It, is a game of tag played across Western Europe.[‡ 3] The fourth season, Battle 4 America, had the goal to claim the most American states in four days. The fifth season, Race to the End of the World, is a board game-like race set in New Zealand, and premiered on March 1, 2023. In April 2023, Denby revealed that the sixth season, set in Japan, would be called Jet Lag: Japan.[7]

All travel on the show is offset by a factor of 10 via Gold Standard carbon credits.[8] As of May 14, 2023, the channel has over 446,000 subscribers and more than 25 million total video views.[‡ 4]

Personal life

Denby was "born and raised" in Washington, D.C..[‡ 5] In 2018, Denby stated he had been living in Edinburgh, Scotland for the past two years for university studies [‡ 6]: 1:32  As of April 2018, he was studying international business.[‡ 7] Denby stated he has lived in Colorado as of 2020, somewhere near Aspen.[‡ 8][‡ 9]

References

Citations
  1. "Wendover Productions - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved May 14, 2023.
  2. Dudley, David (August 19, 2020). "Bad Trains, Explained". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
  3. Hafstað, Vala (June 7, 2019). "Iceland's Tourism Explosion Explained". Iceland Monitor. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
  4. Reynolds, Jacqueline. "Film takes a deep dive into river issues". Aspen Daily News. Retrieved September 21, 2022.
  5. 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.
  6. Anderson, Pearse. "This Travel Game Takes Connect Four to the Extreme". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
  7. "Tweet from Sam Denby on April 23, 2023". Twitter. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
  8. 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.

Primary sources

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

  1. >"We have no idea why he's using the ruler - 1. The chase begins". Nebula TV. February 16, 2022. for DOB, see timestamp 1:00
  2. >"Crime Spree: The World's Most Illegal Game Show". Nebula TV. Half as Interesting.
  3. "We Played a 72 Hour Game of Tag Across Europe". Jet Lag: The Game. YouTube. Retrieved September 21, 2022.
  4. >"Jet Lag: The Game - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved May 14, 2023.
  5. "We Raced To Visit The Most US States In 100 Hours". YouTube. Retrieved December 17, 2022.
  6. 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.
  7. Denby, Sam (March 27, 2018). "Economics has too much math. I study International Business". Reddit. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
  8. "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.
  9. "In case you didn't know, I'm a #influencer". TikTok. Retrieved February 23, 2023.

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