Alex Hryniewicz
Alex Hryniewicz is Managing Director, Network Social Platforms at Little Dot Studios, a digital content studio and media network. With a focus on establishing meaningful connections between premium content and digital audiences, Alex oversees a division of 30 staff members, ensuring the delivery of engaging content across major digital video platforms and social media channels. In this role, he is responsible for driving revenue growth strategies, providing senior leadership, and implementing strategic initiatives to foster growth within the Little Dot Studios Network. This includes managing channels and brands, as well as focusing on growth and monetisation. Most recently he Exec-Produced the digital content created during the search for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, the Endurance. Alex also sits across all AI initiatives within Little Dot Studios, evaluating new business opportunities and working with Little Dot’s legal team to ensure all usage is sustainable and compliant.
Prior to joining Little Dot, Alex was Head of Multiplatform at Maverick Television, working across numerous award-winning cross-platform projects for major UK broadcasters and commercial clients. He developed and produced the BAFTA-award winning Embarrassing Bodies Online in 2008, won a second BAFTA for Embarrassing Bodies Live in 2010 and then developed the My HealthChecker suite of tests and Apps that won BAFTA & International Emmy awards in 2012 as part of the innovative Skype-based health show, Embarrassing Bodies: Live From The Clinic. He produced the Emmy award-winning and BAFTA nominated Reverse The Odds, a mobile game in partnership between Channel 4, Stand Up To Cancer and Cancer Research UK which enabled ordinary members of the public to take on the role of citizen scientists and help carry out real scientific research to bring a cure for cancer closer. In 2019 he Executive-Produced the BAFTA-winning Missed Call for Real Stories.
Alex was part of the MediaGuardian FastTrack in 2007, was named a Broadcast Hotshot in 2008 and Broadcast International Rising Star in 2015. His projects have received additional awards and citations from the Royal Television Society, BANFF Rockies, Broadcast Digital Awards, British Interactive Media Association and Cannes Lions.