Laura-May Coope

Speaker details

Laura-May Coope

Co-Founder of Emmy-winning agency, Social Life, and Chief Solutions Officer at Jellyfish

BA (Hons) English and Creative Arts, 2006

Alumna Laura-May was the first social media producer hire at BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra taking the station’s online audiences from hundreds to millions. She then co-founded an Emmy award-winning social media agency, Social Life which partnered with Netflix and Apple Music. Social Life was successfully acquired in 2019 by global agency Jellyfish, where Laura-May is currently the Chief Solutions Officer, based in Barcelona.      

Amongst other accolades, Laura-May was named one of the most influential people in London by the Evening Standard. She was also chosen by Sadiq Khan, The Mayor of London, to represent London internationally as part of the Female Founder Mission. In 2022 she was named as a winner of the Advertising Week 'Future is Female' award.

Session overview

Guest speaker Laura-May Coope gives us a compelling insight into creating a disruptive social media agency with minimal start-up and wowing clients like Netflix, Amazon, and Apple Music.

Laura-May discusses her time working on the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw, content collabs with celebrities, founding social media agency, Social Life, and how she won an Emmy.

Being a queer woman from a working-class background, Laura-May explains how she embraced diversity and inclusion, outlining the challenges, mistakes and triumphs of a fascinating journey that wasn’t always as glamorous as you might expect.