SciShow

SciShow

SciShow logo
Presentation
Hosted by Hank Green
Genre Education
Language English
Publication
Debut January 2, 2012
Provider YouTube
Website https://youtube.com/scishow

SciShow is a series of science-related videos on YouTube. The program is hosted by Hank Green of the VlogBrothers.[1] SciShow was launched as an original channel.[2]

Hosting and Production

Hank Green, host of SciShow

Though Green hosts the majority of episodes, he is occasionally filled-in for by Michael Aranda and Lindsey Doe, the latter of whom hosts Sexplanations, another channel launched by Green. Prior to her move to Chicago, Emily Graslie of The Brain Scoop, also occasionally hosted on the channel. SciShow has grown since its 2012 launch; since then it has employed a full editorial, production, and operations staff.[3]

SciShow Space has three rotating hosts: Hank Green, Reid Reimers, and Caitlin Hofmeister.

SciShow Kids is primarily hosted by Jessi Knudsen Castañeda.

Promotion and Funding

The channel was launched as an "original channel", which meant that YouTube funded the channel.[4][5] The show's initial grant was projected to expire in 2014, and in response, on September 12, 2013 SciShow joined the viewer-funding site Subbable, created in part by Green.[6][7]

In 2014, the channel landed a national advertisement deal with YouTube. The educational program was featured on platforms such as billboards and television commercials, as a result.[8] Green details that the advertisements had a positive effect on SciShow, stating, "My Twitter exploded, our followers and subscribers exploded."[3]

Content

Several different scientific fields are covered by SciShow, including chemistry, physics, biology, zoology, entomology, botany, meteorology, astronomy, medicine, psychology, anthropology, and computer science.[9] The videos on SciShow have a vast variety of different topics, such as nutrition,[10] and "science superlatives".[11]

A spin-off channel, SciShow Space, launched in April 2014 to specialize in space topics.[12] A second spin-off, SciShow Kids, launched in March 2015 to specialize in delivering science topics to children.[13]

List of Segments

Show Debut
Dose January 2, 2012
Infusion January 8, 2012
Breaking February 8, 2012
News February 10, 2012
Great Minds February 23, 2012
I Don't Think It Means What You Think It Means May 8, 2012
Talk Show January 27, 2013
Quick Questions January 23, 2014
Quiz Show March 27, 2014
World's Most Asked Questions October 15, 2014

Reception

As SciShow has amassed a large following, the channel has been featured on several media outlets.[14][15][16][17]

As for the channel's success on YouTube, it was documented that by October 2014, the channel amassed over 2 million subscribers and earned over 210 million video views.[3] As of April 2015, the channel has just over 2.5 million subscribers and has 278.5 million views.

References

  1. ↑ Leib, Bart (March 23, 2012). "Scishow & Crash Course: Why Isn’t School This Cool?". Geekdad. Wired. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  2. ↑ Eördögh, Fruzsina (January 3, 2012). "Watch the premiere of Hank Green's SciShow". Daily Dot. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Stone, Madeline (October 15, 2014). "Meet The Science Nerd Whose Face Is About To Be Plastered On YouTube Ads Everywhere". Business Insider. Retrieved October 25, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Vlogbrother Hank Green Launches Science Channel as One of YouTube's Much-Publicized Original Programming Channels". Market Wired. January 3, 2012. Retrieved October 25, 2014.
  5. ↑ Hale, Mike (April 25, 2012). "Genres Stretch, for Better and Worse, as YouTube Takes On TV". New York Times. Retrieved October 25, 2014.
  6. ↑ Green, Hank (September 12, 2013). "SciShow Needs You!". SciShow. YouTube. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
  7. ↑ Eifler, Emily (August 20, 2013). "Crowdfunding Matures with a Lesson from Public Broadcasting". KQED. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
  8. ↑ DeSimone, Evan (October 16, 2014). "Hank Green Will Soon Be Stalking You With Science". New Media Rockstars. Retrieved October 25, 2014.
  9. ↑ "SciShow: Chemistry". Watch Documentary Films. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  10. ↑ Proefrock, Philip (April 11, 2012). "SciShow: The Dark Lord of Nutrition". EcoGeek. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  11. ↑ Leroux-Lindsey, Angela (January 18, 2013). "YouTube's SciShow Hails Hot Quark-Gluon Plasma as "Superlative Science"". Brookhaven National Laboratory. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  12. ↑ Green, Hank (March 26, 2014). SciShow Space Launch. SciShow (YouTube). Retrieved January 19, 2015.
  13. ↑ Knudsen Castañeda, Jessi (February 23, 2015). SciShow Kids. SciShow (YouTube). Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  14. ↑ Goodman, Will (September 6, 2012). "A double-dose of Internet education for you (on the history of "cute" and "spam")". The Feed. CBS. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
  15. ↑ Chant, Ian (July 8, 2013). "Recover From The Long Weekend With Weird Science From SciShow [Video]". Geekosystem. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
  16. ↑ Condliffe, Jamie (July 15, 2014). "A Crash Course In Transistors, Processors And Moore's Law". Gizmodo Australia. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  17. ↑ Ryan, Jessica (July 22, 2014). "RYAN: Boulder's The Story Group explores stories behind climate change". Colorado Daily. Retrieved August 1, 2014.

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