Marketing Events | The Marketing Meetup

If you would like to learn from the greatest marketers in the world or meet your fellow marketing people in a kind environment – TMM is for you.

Every event we run puts listening, saying hello, and being positively lovely at its core.

The result is a place where you feel part of the community – rather than having an event happen around you, but not with you.

We run a schedule of events and webinars for marketers that hopefully put a smile on your face and new thoughts in your head.

Find the full schedule and sign up below 👇👇👇👇

Date	Time	Speaker	Name	Location	Get yo' space
13 Jun	10:00 - 16:00 BST	13 amazing speakers and the chance to network with the TMM community	Merged Futures, the annual tech innovation showcase	Northampton	Sign up here
16 Jun	09:00 - 16:30 BST	Coworking, Cake & Dave Officer	Cowork Crew: The One-Man Brand	London	Sign up here
17 Jun	14:00 - 15:00 BST	Mel Barfield & Ben McKinney, indie business club podcast & Copy Or Die and Michelle L P Boland MBA FCIM, Pink Umbrella Marketing	How to grow a marketing freelancer / consultancy business in 2025	Online	Sign up here
18 Jun	09:00 - 10:30 BST	featuring speakers from Perplexity, HubSpot, TMM, fieldfisher and Zoom	Zoom events summit. Where technology meets connection: elevating the future of events	Online	Sign up here
18 Jun	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Jessica Pilkington, Founder and Director at Pilkington Communications; and Tom Sangers, Founder at Metric Hub	TMM IRL: Exeter	Exeter	Sign up here
19 Jun	12:00 - 13:00 BST	the TKC community ... and you!	The Keynote Club	Online	Sign up here
19 Jun	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Max Hoppy, Founder of The Keynote Club; and Richard Plackett, Senior First Officer, Virgin Atlantic Airways	TMM IRL: Good and bad public speaking, it’s never an accident 🙂 and Marketing Management and Human Factors: Tales from the Flight Deck	Nottingham	Sign up here
19 Jun	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Sophie May, Senior Social Media and Influencer Manager at krow group	TMM IRL: Why UGC is the new influencer – the native video solution for brands	Norwich	Sign up here
24 Jun	09:30 - 10:30 BST	Rachael Higgins, Founder at Because of Marketing	How to grow a social media following	Online	Sign up here
25 Jun	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Lottie Namakando, Director of Behavioural Science and Innovation at Reflect Digital	TMM IRL: Using your Competitors to Supercharge your Search	Reading	Sign up here
25 Jun	18:30 - 20:00 BST	Panel discussion with Úna Herlihy, Founder & CEO at The Indie List; Sinéad D’Arcy, Founder at Future Roots; Andrew Murray, Executive Director at FEED by TBWA; moderated by Diana Byrne, Founder & CMO at Clarity	TMM IRL: Stand Out & Succeed. Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Most Important Brand – YOU	Dublin	Sign up here
26 Jun	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Max Hoppy, Founder of The Keynote Club	TMM IRL: Sheffield	Sheffield	Sign up here
1 Jul	14:00 - 15:00 BST	Hector Hughes, CEO/Co-Founder of Unplugged	Lessons in growing a startup from scratch	Online	Sign up here
1 Jul	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Speaker: to be confirmed!	TMM IRL: Southampton	Southampton	Sign up here
3 Jul	18:00 - 20:00 BST	A panel discussion with Fiona O’Donoghue, Emily Waddell and Jim Lewis	TMM IRL: Marketing & Community – What Really Matters Now	Hertfordshire	Sign up here
3 Jul	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Thomas Reeve, Head of Design at Zyte	TMM IRL: Decoding the Human Touch – Practical Tips for Engaging User Experiences	Northampton	Sign up here
7 Jul	17:30 - 20:30 BST	Kladi Vergine, Sr Creative Cloud Evangelist at Adobe	Adobe Create Now	Bristol and Bath	Sign up here
8 Jul	15:00 - 16:00 BST	ilā Kamalagharan, Maison Mercury Jones and Bomo Piri, Native Instruments	Designed to resonate: How sonic branding shapes our experiences	Online	Sign up here
8 Jul	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Speaker to be confirmed!	TMM IRL: Newcastle	Newcastle	Sign up here
8 Jul	18:00 - 20:00 BST	James Sandbrook, Co-Founder of The Marketing Meetup	TMM IRL: Manchester	Manchester	Sign up here
8 Jul	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Speaker to be confirmed!	TMM IRL: Cambridge	Cambridge	Sign up here
8 Jul	18:00 - 21:00 BST	A panel of lovely people including Lucy Street, Adobe Express Evangelist & Community Advocate	Adobe Content Circles	Bristol and Bath	Sign up here
9 Jul	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Lyndon Nicholson, CEO and Founder of the Future Group	TMM IRL: The Hollywood Method – crafting blockbuster brand stories that sell	London	Sign up here
10 Jul	09:00 - 16:30 BST	Coworking, Cake & Tom Garfield	Cowork Crew: How to sell without selling your soul	Reading	Sign up here
10 Jul	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Charli Hunt, Co-Founder at The Lime One	TMM IRL: How to use LinkedIn to generate leads	Winchester	Sign up here
10 Jul	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Speaker to be confirmed!	TMM IRL: Lancashire (Chorley)	Lancashire	Sign up here
11 Jul	09:00 - 16:30 BST	Coworking, Cake & Emily Jones	Cowork Crew: 6 steps to website success	Cambridge	Sign up here
15 Jul	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Jorun Bork, SEO Account Manager at GIMO	TMM IRL: The Evolution of Search and AI’s Impact on SEO	Leeds	Sign up here
15 Jul	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Speaker to be confirmed!	TMM IRL: Brighton	Brighton	Sign up here
16 Jul	17:30 - 19:30 BST	Hannah Stapley-Parker, Marketing Consultant & Trainer at Well I Never	TMM IRL: How to Practise Curiosity for Better Creative Thinking	Bristol and Bath	Sign up here
16 Jul	18:00 - 20:00 BST	David Patrykowski, Director at Backona Analytics	TMM IRL: Stop wrestling with spreadsheets, and start having conversations with your data	Milton Keynes	Sign up here
17 Jul	09:00 - 16:30 BST	Coworking, Cake & Charlotte Sargeant	Cowork Crew: Unlock These Audience Insights to Make Buying a No-Brainer	Northampton	Sign up here
17 Jul	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Speaker to be confirmed!	TMM IRL: Birmingham	Birmingham	Sign up here
22 Jul	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Katie Neal and Lauren Martin, Co-founders at The Piñata Lab	TMM IRL: From chaos to clarity – why strategy matters	Liverpool	Sign up here
25 Jul	12:00 - 13:00 BST	Joe Glover Co-Founder at The Marketing Meetup, Harriet Meyer Award-winning journalist and founder of AI for Media, Heather Murray Generative AI expert and top global MarTech influencer	AI on Trial	Online	Sign up here
28 Jul	18:00 - 20:30 BST	Speaker to be confirmed!	TMM IRL: Ashford	Ashford	Sign up here
2 Sep	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Rae Dixon, Senior Brand Manager at Gattaca	TMM IRL: Portsmouth	Portsmouth	Sign up here
19 Mar	09:00 - 17:00 GMT	lots of wonderful speakers from the TMM community 💜	The Marketing Meetup Conference 2026	London	Sign up here

“If any of you haven’t engaged with The Marketing Meetup yet, now’s your chance. And believe me, you do not want to be left out.”

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Previous event recordings

Growing your productivity using AI

Marketing is a balancing act of creativity, data, and time. In a recent TMM webinar, Nick shared how AI isn’t here to take our jobs, but to give us back the time and brain space we need to focus on the things that matter—ideas, strategy, and creativity. With over...

How to grow an agency in 2025

Stephen Kenright, agency veteran, co-founder of Rise at 7, and now independent consultant, joined us for a session packed with clarity, honesty, and a dose of humour. With over 1,500 attendees, Stephen shared insights on positioning, pricing, inbound vs. outbound...

Is there growth in SEO in 2025?

How to get to better ideas

In a world flooded with average ideas, Better Briefs’ Matt and Peter-Paul took us deep into the art (and science) of why good ideas matter and how to get there. With over 1,000 marketers tuning in, they uncovered why ideas so often fall flat, how to fix feedback...

How to measure and track the impact of brand marketing

Brand tracking can feel intangible — but it doesn’t have to be. In this session, Dan from Tracksuit broke down how marketers can prove the value of brand marketing, even in performance-driven environments. Here are the big insights: 📈 1. Brand is a Long-Term Growth...

From Google to Glitter: Lessons in Brand Building, AI, and Starting Again – with Nishma Patel Robb

In a rich, honest, and inspiring conversation for The Marketing Meetup, Nishma Patel Robb – former Senior Director of Brand & Reputation at Google and now founder of Glitter Sphere – shared the story of leaving corporate life to build a purpose-led startup...

SURREAL’s copywriter: The copywriter’s guide to brand building

In a world of try-hard ads and soulless social posts, John Thornton—Creative Lead at Surreal and ex-Innocent copywriter—is doing things differently. In our latest The Marketing Meetup session, John shared how Surreal creates social-first copy that’s funny, human,...

How to find your speaking territory and build a signature talk

In our latest session, we welcomed the brilliant Max Hopkinson — co-founder of The Keynote Club and former Head of Marketing at Iceland Foods. Max shared his deeply personal and practical journey to becoming a confident public speaker, after once having a panic...

What do marketers need to know about AI agents?

Takeaways Understand AI agents as digital employees: Autonomous, proactive, and capable of complex tasks. Unlike standard AI (e.g., ChatGPT), agents can independently execute and adapt without constant oversight. Distinguishing between tools: Custom GPT: Tailored,...

Graphic design tips for busy marketers without a design background – Dave Officer

Key Takeaways: Design Principles for Non-Designers (with Dave from Doodle Juice) Balance (4:06):Keep designs visually comfortable by evenly distributing elements—centre-align short text (up to three lines) and left-align longer paragraphs. Contrast (9:50):Draw...

Busting the brand myths to rebrand right

Rachel Fairley and Sarah Rob, co-founders of WeBrandRight and authors of "Rebrand Right," shared their insights on how marketers can create strong, valuable brands by busting common branding myths. Key takeaways include: Myth 1: Start with Strategy (6:51) Reality:...

Brand consistency: How to get the rest of the team on board with branding

Key takeaways Brand consistency is business-critical, not trivial: Directly influences brand recognition, credibility, trust, and ultimately, commercial success. It's emotional (how people feel about your brand) and practical (how it impacts business results)....

Some of our previous marketing speakers

Our speakers include some of the world's most famous and most effective marketing practitioners and thinkers. From Oscar Nominees to Disability Rights champions, to well-known names - we've had them all on our stage.

Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy

Hannah Anderson, Co-Founder of Social Chain

Mark Ritson - Founder of the Mini-MBA & Marketing Week Columnist

Mark Ritson, Professor of Mini MBA

April Dunford, Author of Obviously Awesome

John Espirian, Relentlessly Helpful Technical Copywriter

Dave Gerhardt - CMO of Privy & Founder of DGMG

Dave Gerhardt, VP of Brand of Drift

Louis Grenier, Founder of Everyone Hates Marketers

Nathan Anibaba, Founder of Agency Dealmasters

Catherine Newman, CMO of Manchester United

Find more of our speakers and their talks just here

Why attend marketing events like The Marketing Meetup and what makes them among the best marketing events?

Marketing, when done well, can be a noble act. It matches a problem to a solution for customers and communicates it creatively.

But why attend events like The Marketing Meetup? Very simply, marketing doesn’t have to be a solo adventure. We can all make each other better. We can help each other along. We can learn, collaborate and grow together. Marketing done well is an amazing thing.

The Marketing Meetup is a friendly, inclusive and welcoming place to be. You leave feeling informed and welcome. That’s why they feel like some of the best marketing events and webinars around.