Crash Course | |
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Genre | Educational[1] |
Created by | John Green Hank Green |
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Written by | Various |
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Creative director | Thought Café (Formerly Thought Bubble) |
Presented by | List of presenters
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Theme music composer | Jason Weidner |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 55 |
No. of episodes | 1548[n 1] |
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Executive producers | John Green Hank Green Heather Di Diego |
Producers | Stan Muller Nicholas Jenkins Nicole Sweeney Brandon Brungard Hannah Bodenhausen |
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Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 6–15 minutes 2–4 minutes (Kids; Recess) |
Original release | |
Network | YouTube |
Release | January 26, 2012 present | –
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Crash Course (sometimes stylized as CrashCourse) is an educational YouTube channel started by John Green and Hank Green (collectively the Green brothers), who became known on YouTube through their Vlogbrothers channel.[2][3][4]
Crash Course was one of the hundred initial channels funded by YouTube's $100 million original channel initiative. The channel launched a preview on December 2, 2011, and as of March 2022[update], it has accumulated over 15 million subscribers and 1.8 billion video views.[5] The channel launched with John and Hank presenting their respective World History and Biology series; the early history of the channel continued the trend of John and Hank presenting humanities and science courses, respectively.[6] In November 2014, Hank announced a partnership with PBS Digital Studios, which would allow the channel to produce more courses. As a result, multiple additional hosts joined the show to increase the number of concurrent series.
To date, there are 44 main series of Crash Course, of which John has hosted nine and Hank has hosted seven. Together with Emily Graslie, they also co-hosted Big History. A second channel, Crash Course Kids, was hosted by Sabrina Cruz and completed a series on Science. The first foreign-language course, an Arabic reworking of the original World History series, is hosted by Yasser Abumuailek. The main channel has also begun a series of shorter animated episodes, called Recess, that focus on topics from the previous Crash Course series. A collaboration with Arizona State University titled Study Hall began in 2020, which includes less structured learning in its topics.
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