Maddie Moate

Maddie Moate is a YouTube filmmaker and BAFTA award winning presenter, passionate about curiosity. Moate is one of the few family-focused ‘Edu-tubers’ in the UK and has been creating fun educational science videos for the past 8 years, amassing over 205k subscribers and 56 million+ views on her own YouTube channel. On her hugely successful, YouTube channel, Moate combines the traditional online style with educational content in the hope to inspire a new audience to stay curious, adventurous and encourage science engagement. The channel received a Kidscreen Award in 2022.

Since 2016, Moate has hosted the hit CBeebies series Moate’s Do You Know?, which sees her explore the workings of everyday objects by asking how they are made or work, all made possible with special cameras and animations. Due to the huge success of DYK, during 2020, Moate also hosted a spin-off series, "Maddie, the Zoo and You." In 2017, Moate triumphed in the presenter category at the BAFTA Children’s Awards and has since starred in the Cbeebies Proms during 2019. She has also appeared in the Cbeebies Christmas Show since 2017. Since October 2021, Show Me The Honey has been available on CBBC and BBC iPlayer. Moate follows wannabe beekeepers as they learn everything there is to know about caring for a hive.

She has also hosted Springwatch Wild Academy (BBC), Cloud Challenge (CNBC) and items for This Morning (ITV), Goodwood coverage (ITV4) and sustainability content on Fully Charged (YouTube). Aside from digital content and television, Moate also brings science to the stage, writing, producing and hosting shows for her audience.

During the summer of 2021, Moate, alongside her partner Greg Foot, performed their new show, The Wonder Games, at their first London residency at The London Wonderground. They also took the show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival's Underbelly stage in 2022. Stuff! Eco-Stories of Everyday Stuff was Moate’s debut book, and was published by Puffin in October 2021 and received rave reviews.

Moate also made her pantomime debut in Leicester's Sleeping Beauty in 2021 and will be treading the boards in York's Peter Pan in 2022. In the commercial space, Moate has worked with LEGO, Samsung, Dr Oetker, LeasePlan and Mattel. She is a patron of the Youth STEM Awards (YSA) scheme and an ambassador for The Wildlife Trust and Eureka: The National Children’s Museum.