Sam Denby Bio

Sam Denby was born on March 17, 1997, in the United States. Not much is known about his parents or their professions. Similarly, he has never spoken about his other family members and his early years.

Sam currently lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. He studies international business at the 'University of Edinburgh.' Along with his fellow undergraduate Hollie Gallen and postgraduates Radu Marian, Jessica Xie, and Zhang Kai, Sam collaborated with five winners of a 'Virgin Trains' social-media competition to participate in a series of onboard workshops under the mentorship of renowned entrepreneurs Jamal Edwards, Levi Roots, and Maria Hatzistefanis.

Sam conceived the idea of Wendover Productions a few years before he turned it into a YouTube channel. What started as a mere hobby later became a passion, and he decided to share his idea with viewers. Hence, Sam set up the YouTube channel for 'Wendover Productions' on February 11, 2010. However, the first video was uploaded on August 31, 2015. Titled 'How Marketers Manipulate Us: Psychological Manipulation in Advertising,' the video was about the role of advertising in manipulating customers’ psychology for accelerating businesses.

The video titled 'How to Create a Country' was the one of the first videos on the channel to cross a million “views.” It has been viewed by more than two million people to date. With over six million "views," the video, 'The Economics of Airline Class' tops the list of the most-viewed videos on the channel.

Some of the videos on the channel that have earned "views" in millions are 'Space Law-What Laws are There in Space?,' 'TWL #7: This Number is Illegal,' 'How Budget Airlines Work,' 'Why Flying is So Expensive,' 'The Plane Highway in the Sky,' and 'Every State in the US.' The primary channel Wendover Productions has more than 4.8 million subscribers to date.

On August 26, 2017, Sam launched his second channel, Half as Interesting. Like the primary channel, this channel, too, hosts educational videos on various subjects. However, the second channel deals with lighter topics and does not create hard-core subject-related informative videos.

The video titled 'Why Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night are Illegal' has earned over eight million views, the highest on the channel. Sam’s second YouTube channel has attracted over2.9 million subscribers to date. The channel is a revised version of the series 'That Wikipedia List' (also known as TWL). The series consists of interesting topics chosen from 'Wikipedia: Unusual' articles.

Sam also owns a podcast titled 'Showmakers,' which he created in collaboration of Brian McManas, the creator of the 'YouTube' channel 'Real Engineering.’ Since its launch in April 2017, the podcast has been featuring successful online creators. It has released 15 episodes as of February 2019.

In May 2022, Sam Denby, launched the channel, Jet Lag: The Game. This channel has over 940,000 subscribers.