Social Commerce LIVE Manchester

Social Commerce LIVE Manchester

Social Commerce Live is a gathering in Manchester for the people actually doing the work in social commerce.

It runs across two days. Thursday is a brands-only day. Friday is the creator day, and that is the one this ticket is for. A full day at Manchester Hall with the brands who were in the room the day before, the platform, and a couple of hundred people who understand what you are trying to build.

It is not a conference. There is no big badge, no lanyard, no panel full of consultants talking theory. It is a room full of people who are live on TikTok Shop this week, sharing real numbers in public and being honest about what is working and what is not.

It is co-created by Des Hamilton, founder of AffiliNation Agency, one of the UK's fastest-growing TikTok Shop affiliate agencies, and Chris Grimes, founder of Novaro, a Manchester live commerce studio working with major consumer brands. They started running these events because the events that already existed were not the events they wanted to attend.

It runs in official partnership with TikTok Shop as part of the Partner Roadshow programme, which means the people who build the platform are in the room with you, not on a video call from a headquarters somewhere else.

Pull quote "The room was electric, the conversations were real, and every single person in that space brought something to it. That is not something you can manufacture." Des Hamilton, co-host