Ben Relles is Head of Creative Strategy at YouTube. In this role, Relles is responsible for helping content creators build their audience and develop their YouTube strategy. Prior to joining YouTube, he was Vice President of Programming at Next New Networks.

Relles is the creator of the comedy network Barely Political, whose content has now been viewed over 2 billion times. Ben started the channel when he created the "Obama Girl" series of videos. He continues to oversee the Barely Political comedy network, which has featured the shows The Key of Awesome, Super Therapy, and Auto-Tune the News. He also developed the Vsauce network with Michael Stevens which has a combined 1 billion views across Vsauce1, Vsauce2, and Vsauce3.