Complexly

Complexly
Formerly
EcoGeek LLC
Industry Video production
Genre Education
Founder Hank Green
Headquarters
Key people
Brands
  • Crash Course
  • SciShow
  • The Art Assignment
  • Healthcare Triage
  • The Financial Diet
  • Eons
  • Mental Floss Video
  • Sexplanations
  • Animal Wonders
  • Nature League
Number of employees
32 (2018)
Website complexly.com

Complexly LLC is an American online video production company, with bases in Missoula, Montana, and Indianapolis, Indiana. Its co-CEOs are brothers John and Hank Green, who began on YouTube in 2007 with their personal channel project Vlogbrothers. In 2012, the Greens began producing educational video content with two new channels: Crash Course and SciShow, and in the years since have started numerous other channels and podcasts which have been folded into the company.[1] It was originally named EcoGeek LLC, founded by Hank Green to support a blog he ran on environmental and science issues; it was renamed in 2016.[2] Also associated with Complexly's business, but separate to its operation, are VidCon, DFTBA Records, and the Project for Awesome. The business affairs of the Greens' personal projects - the YouTube channel Vlogbrothers and podcast Dear Hank & John - are handled by Complexly but the company does not directly produce their content.[3]

Productions

Crash Course

Multiple hosts and courses; see main article

Crash Course is an educational YouTube channel providing multiple linear courses of study, often based around the AP curriculum of a given subject. The level of study matches that of high school or early college, but no age group is excluded from making use of the content. Many courses are co-produced with PBS Digital Studios.

SciShow

Multiple hosts and channels; see main article

SciShow is a series of science-related videos, primarily hosted by Hank Green. The format includes breaking science news, in-depth analyses of scientific concepts and science history, as well as rapid-fire science fact compilations. It has spinoff channels named Space (space exploration, astronomy, cosmology), Psych (psychology, neuroscience) and Kids (a format directed at grade-school aged children).

The Art Assignment

Host: Sarah Urist Green

The Art Assignment is a PBS Digital Studios co-production focused on contemporary art. Initially oriented around 'assignments' given by noted artists to the audience to complete, it has gradually shifted its emphasis to discuss contemporary and modern art in a broader sense.

Channel: The Art Assignment

Healthcare Triage

Host: Aaron Carroll

Healthcare Triage is a series about modern healthcare that discusses healthcare policy and medical research, and answers questions about medicine, health, and healthcare.

Channel: Healthcare Triage

The Financial Diet

Host: Chelsea Fagan

The Financial Diet is a personal finance advice channel, directed toward young adults and particularly young women.

Channel: The Financial Diet

Eons

Hosts: Hank Green, Blake di Pastino, Kallie Moore

Eons is a PBS Digital Studios co-production, a channel about the history of life on Earth.

Channel: PBS Eons

Mental Floss Video

Hosts: John Green, Elliott Morgan, others

Mental Floss is the video arm of Mental Floss, providing interesting facts centered on one particular subject matter; in a format titled Scatterbrained, John Green is joined by multiple hosts on a single episode every other week, which tackles one topic from multiple angles.

Channel: Mental Floss

Sexplanations

Host: Lindsey Doe

Sexplanations is a video series explaining sexual topics, hosted by clinical sexologist Dr. Lindsey Doe.

Channel: Sexplanations

Animal Wonders

Host: Jessi Knudsen Castañeda

Animal Wonders is a video series from the namesake wildlife animal centre outside of Missoula. It focuses on the centre's 80+ exotic animals, including their care and habitat.

Channel: AnimalWonders Montana

Nature League

Host: Brit Garner

Nature League is a channel exploring nature; each month has a new theme, and each week a different format.

Channel: Nature League

Complexly

Host: various

Complexly launched a self-named channel in May 2018, to share themed playlists, post one-off videos and miniseries, and pilot new channels.

Channel: Complexly

Ceased productions

100 Days

Hosts: John Green, Chris Waters

100 Days was a personal initiative of John Green, exploring how to 'have a healthy midlife crisis'. He is joined in physical exercises and other feats by his best friend Chris. It ran through the early months of 2017.

Channel: 100 Days

How to Adult

Hosts: Hank Green, Rachel Calderon Navarro

How to Adult was a general advice channel directed toward young adults entering the broader world of adulthood for the first time. The channel was originated in 2014 by T. Michael Martin and Emma Mills who hosted it until August 2016; Complexly revived it with their blessing in March 2017, and the channel aired its final episode in April 2018. [4]

Channel: How to Adult

How to Vote in Every State

Host: Hank Green

How to Vote in Every State was an initiative based around the 2016 United States elections to help voters determine how to properly register and submit their vote. Videos were posted for all 50 states and DC, plus instructions for those in the military, overseas and in unincorporated territories. The series was re-done two years later for the 2018 United States elections.

Channel: How to Vote in Every State

Holy Fucking Science

Host: various

Holy Fucking Science was a science-based entertainment show where four people (typically SciShow staffers, and guests) get together to try to astound and amaze each other with scientific facts and discoveries; it was directed at adults only. Though each episode was filmed and posted to YouTube, it was intended to be enjoyed as a podcast. Their regular sponsor was Montana brewery Big Sky Brewing Company. The show ceased in March 2018 after 58 episodes, with the promise of a similar production to soon replace it.[5]

Channel: Holy Fucking Science Podcast: Holy Fucking Science

The Brain Scoop

Host: Emily Graslie

The Brain Scoop was first created by Hank Green when he visited the zoological museum at the University of Montana and met one of its collections volunteers, Emily Graslie. Her on-camera presence was exceptional, and he launched a channel soon afterward based in that museum with Graslie as host, in January 2013. The channel enjoyed remarkable success and in a matter of months had caught the attention of staffers at the Field Museum in Chicago; Graslie, and the program, moved there in August 2013. After a period where the Field licensed the program from Green, they eventually purchased all its rights and trademarks and now continue to produce the show in-house.

Channel: The Brain Scoop

References

  1. "About Complexly". Complexly. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  2. Green, Hank. "Changing Our Business a Bit". Vlogbrothers. YouTube. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  3. Green, Hank (August 27, 2014). "Why does your "company" seem to have so many names?". Tumblr. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
  4. "How to Say Goodbye". How to Adult. YouTube. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  5. "HFS Podcast #58 - It's the End of the Fartball as We Know It". Holy Fucking Science. YouTube. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
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