Profile overview
Who is Ben Drury?
Ben Drury is an inventor associated with United Kingdom. Their documented work in consumer & home includes Yoto Player card-operated children's audio player, the contribution at the center of this evidence-backed profile.
Ben Drury co-created Yoto Player, a child-operated audio player that turns physical cards and simple controls into access to stories, music and learning without a conventional screen. Patent records and independent design bodies name him among the device's inventors and designers.
What did Ben Drury invent?
Co-conceived the tactile, screen-free Yoto Player and is named as a co-inventor on its interactive-apparatus and media-player patents.
What did Ben Drury accomplish?
Yoto made card-based, screen-free children's audio a mass-market hardware category; its first Kickstarter run shipped 750 units and the platform now reaches more than a million families.
What is known about Ben Drury today?
SXSW London’s current 2026 speaker profile identifies Drury as Yoto CEO, describes his creation of Yoto with Filip Denker, and reports more than one million families using the platform.
