Alex Connock

Alex Connock in 2015

British digital media executive and academic, specialised in global brand-funded TV and online video content. Managing Director of TV and branded content producer at Shine North.[1][2][3]

Head of video at The LAD Bible,[4] the 12th most visited website in the UK[5]

Co-production deal with actor Idris Elba’s company Green Door pictures producing documentary film ‘Mandela My Dad and Me’, No Limits (Discovery), King of Speed (BBC) and commercial work for AO, Jaguar and Britvic. Executive Producer of Diageo’s global brand integration TV/digital project "World Class 2013-16". Productions for Channel 4, National Geographic. Co-founder with Bob Geldof and CEO of media group Ten Alps 1998-2011.[6][7][8]

Visiting Fellow, Manchester Business School focussed on e-commerce video studies. Entrepreneur in Residence at INSEAD (Fontainebleau).[9] Visiting Professor, Manchester Metropolitan University in digital innovation.[10] Visiting Professor, University of Salford Business School. Visiting Professor, University of Sunderland.

Chairman of Royal Television Society (North West) 2011-16.[11] Voting member BAFTA. Visiting Fellow Reuter's Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University 2011-13,[12] where he published a report on branded content. 2016 study of effective content strategies in e-Commerce video with polling organisation IPSOS MORI. Degrees Oxford University (PPE St Johns College), Columbia University (Journalism), INSEAD (MBA).

Married 1998 Sumi Connock, creative director of entertainment at ITV Studios.

References

  1. ↑ "Alex Connock takes new role at Shine Group". Broadcast Now. 4 April 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  2. ↑ "Shine UK hires Alex Connock as head of new business". Televisual. 4 April 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  3. ↑ Alex Connock is managing director of Shine North, Shine Group, n.d., retrieved 4 June 2014
  4. ↑ The LAD Bible, The LAD Bible, n.d.
  5. ↑ Alexa ranking for The LAD Bible, Alexa, n.d.
  6. ↑ "Ten Alps: Alex Connock". Startups. 2 Dec 2004. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  7. ↑ "Alex Connock: TV Super Tsar". Growth Business. 11 May 2006. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  8. ↑ "Profile:Alex Connock of Ten Alps". Financial Times. 16 June 2010. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  9. ↑ Entrepreneur in Residence, INSEAD, n.d., retrieved 4 June 2014
  10. ↑ Street, Typocom / Tariff. "MMU Digital Innovation". www.diginnmmu.com. Retrieved 2016-01-21.
  11. ↑ About -- North West, Royal Television Society, n.d., retrieved 4 June 2014
  12. ↑ Fellowships - Alex Connock, Reuter's Institute for the Study of Journalism, n.d., retrieved 4 June 2014

Selected bibliography

A. Connock (2016) Our Friend in the North, Royal Television Society

A. Connock (2016) Channel 4 is critical infrastructure for the ‘Northern Powerhouse’, Opendeomcracy.net

A. Connock (2015) Britain's creative kickstarter: the BBC, Opendemocracy.net

A. Connock (2015) Northern Powerhouse: switch on the power, Opendemocracy.net

Connock, A (September 5, 2015). "Our Beeb - the future of the BBC". In Mair, John; Tait, Richard & Keeble, Richard. The BBC Today: Future Uncertain. Abramis. ISBN 9781845496562. 

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