Jack Edwards (YouTuber)

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Jack Edwards
Personal information
Born (1998-10-18) 18 October 1998 (age 26) [1]
Brighton, England
Education St Cuthbert's Society, Durham
Occupations
Website https://www.thejackexperience.co.uk/
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2016–present
GenreBooks
Subscribers1.38 million [2]
Total views119 million [2]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers
Last updated: 5 July 2024

Jack Benjamin Edwards (born 18 October 1998) is an English YouTuber, social media influencer and author. [3] He has built an online following posting videos about books, popular culture and university life since 2016, and is associated with the internet sub-communities of BookTube, BookTok [4] [5] [6] and EduTube. [7] [8] [9] As of July 2024 he has over 1.38 million subscribers on YouTube and over 1.1 million followers across TikTok and Instagram.

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Early life and education

Jack Edwards was the top student from his school before entering university. He is from Brighton and studied English Literature, Politics, and History at A-level, the results of which he opened on camera on his channel. [10] Edwards was invited to interview at Oxford University for the English Q300 undergraduate degree. He attended the University of Durham to study English literature in the Q300 program. [11] [12] [13] During his time there, he was a member of St Cuthbert's College. He was the first member of his family to attend university. [12]

Career

Edwards began documenting his experiences at university on YouTube in 2016. The dean of his college attributed a rise in applications to the college he attended to Edwards' channel, calling it "the Jack Edwards effect". [8]

He now has over one million subscribers on his main channel @jack_edwards, and nearly 500,000 on his second channel @jack_in_the_books. He is known for posting about popular culture, including reading the book recommendations of popular actors, musicians, and reality stars. [14] He is also active on TikTok and Instagram. Edwards is signed by the Sixteenth talent agency. [15] He published The Uni-Verse: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving University with Harper Collins in 2020. [16] [17]

In 2021, Edwards launched Ink Outside the Box, a stationery company. [18] In 2023, Edwards announced that he would be closing down the company. [19]

In 2023, Edwards was announced as a "thinker in residence" for that year's Hay Festival, focusing on digital storytelling and online media. [20] As part of his role, he interviewed Alice Oseman. [21] That year he also hosted the 2023 Booker Prize official livestream at Oxford University. [22] [23]

Edwards appeared as a panellist on series eight of Between the Covers . His episode aired on BBC Two on 19 November 2024.

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  4. ↑ Bacon, Jess. "Is BookTok sucking the joy out of reading?" . Retrieved 21 September 2023.
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