Sam Denby
Samuel Robert Denby is an American YouTuber who created the edutainment YouTube channels Wendover Productions and Half as Interesting, and the travel competition show Jet Lag: The Game, alongside other projects. Across all of Denby's channels, he has accumulated more than 1 billion views and 7.8 million subscribers. He is the chief content officer of streaming service Nebula.
Career
Wendover Productions
Created in 2010, Denby's primary channel is Wendover Productions. that channel has over 4.87 million subscribers, 262 published videos, and more than 781 million total video views. His videos most commonly feature the topics of logistics, most notably those of aviation, as well as geography, economics, and the military. The Wendover Productions video about tourism in Iceland received significant attention from Iceland's national newspapers. Wendover Productions is based in Aspen, Colorado.''Half as Interesting''
Launched on August 26, 2017, Denby's second YouTube channel, Half as Interesting, publishes weekly releases on an unrestricted range of curious topics delivered in a witty style. The videos are often in the 5–10 minute range, and are dedicated to a single little-known topic. According to the launch announcement, the channel continues the well-liked coverage of topics from Wikipedia's "Unusual articles" list, referred to as "That Wikipedia List" or TWL, which was previously published on the Wendover Productions channel, but is not restricted solely to that end. the channel has over 2.93 million subscribers, 547 published videos and more than 780 million views.''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. 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''
Denby's YouTube channel Jet Lag: The Game hosts a travel competition show created by Denby and Half as Interesting's writers, Ben Doyle and Adam Chase. Inspired by The Amazing Race, the season usually consists of three or four players.The show was nominated for Best Editing at the 13th Streamy Awards.
All air travel on the show is carbon-offset by a multiple of 10 via Gold Standard carbon credits. the channel has over 975 thousand subscribers, 103 videos, and more than 125 million total video views. The episodes are released on Nebula one week earlier than YouTube, which has caused large spikes to Nebula's usage traffic in the past.
Nebula
In August 2023, Nebula announced that they had appointed Denby as their chief content officer.On April 8, 2024, Denby's production company, Wendover Productions, announced production on The Getaway, a reality game show which premiered exclusively on Nebula on July 10, 2024. The game involves six content creators competing on a road trip through the American West. The contestants are led to believe that they are competing in a social deduction game, in which one of the group has become a secret saboteur among them, with the rest of them working collaboratively in challenges they are tasked to complete during their trip. In actuality, all six contestants are told that they are the saboteur. Denby, Wiskus, and Trenton Waterson executive produced the project. Denby also directed, with Doyle and Chase involved in production.