In Person 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 hopefully feel part of something – rather than having something happen to 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 below

Date	Time	Speaker	Name	Location	Get yo' space
29 Sep	17:30 - 20:00 EDT	Tarek Riman, Founder at Riman Agency	TMM IRL: The New Rules of Visibility – Marketing in an AI-Driven World	Montreal	Sign up here
29 Sep	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Katy Air & Chris Thornton, Co-Founders at Airgonomics	TMM IRL: Turning blocks into business breakthroughs	Fife	Sign up here
30 Sep	18:00 - 19:45 BST	Eloise Leeson-Smith, Founder & Linguist at Olim \| Next-Level Communications	TMM IRL: Know What You Stand For — Then Say It!	Southampton	Sign up here
30 Sep	18:30 - 20:30 CEST	Cathy White, Founder & CEO of CEW Communications	TMM IRL: How to make media work for your marketing department	Barcelona	Sign up here
30 Sep	18:30 - 20:30 EDT	Ben Wise and Darren Chiu, Co-founders at Captivate	TMM IRL: The Art & Science of Persuasion -Turning Behavioural Science Into Real-World Results	Toronto	Sign up here
6 Oct	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Ryan Percival, Founder at Social with Ryan	TMM IRL: LinkedIn, with a plan	Milton Keynes	Sign up here
13 Oct	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Laura Chamberlain, Professor of Marketing at the University of Warwick	TMM IRL: The Messy Sparks of Marketing – the three human skills that are your glimmers of hope	Leamington Spa	Sign up here
14 Oct	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Silke Anderson, Founder at Cloud7 Marketing & AI Literacy Trainer	TMM IRL: Why Critical Thinking Is Still Our Superpower (in the Age of AI)	Hitchin	Sign up here
15 Oct	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Robin Williams, Digital Consultant - Strategy, Delivery & Growth	TMM IRL: AI Did the Coding. I Did the Thinking. Here’s What I Learned	Sheffield	Sign up here
20 Oct	18:00 - 20:30 EDT	Ben Moore, Managing Director at BeReal; Ramin Beheshti, CEO and Co-founder at Caliber; further panellists to be announced!	The Marketing Meetup x BeReal: New York. How We Connect Now – AI, Socials, and Brand	New York	Sign up here
21 Oct	18:00 - 20:00 BST	Tom Hazelden, Head of Brand, Planning and Content at easyJet and Daniel Mark Carr (DMC), Public Speaking Coach at The Keynote Club	TMM IRL: Unlocking Your Voice	Reading	Sign up here
29 Oct	18:00 - 20:00 GMT	Speaker to be confirmed!	TMM IRL: Winchester	Winchester	Sign up here
11 Nov	18:00 - 20:00 GMT	Speaker to be announced shortly!	TMM IRL: Buckinghamshire	Buckinghamshire	Sign up here
11 Nov	18:00 - 20:00 GMT	Speaker to be confirmed!	TMM IRL: Fleet	Fleet	Sign up here
12 Nov	18:00 - 20:00 GMT	Speaker to be confirmed!	TMM IRL: Nottingham	Nottingham	Sign up here
12 Nov	18:00 - 20:00 GMT	Jon Torrens, Communication Coach	TMM IRL: How to Train Your Fear Dragon – Becoming an Authentic Hero	Northampton	Sign up here
12 Nov	18:00 - 20:00 GMT	Nikki Pilkington, SEO Consultant and SEO Content Specialist	TMM IRL: the SEO to do list that fits on a post it note	Peterborough	Sign up here
12 Nov	18:00 - 20:00 GMT	Marketing Round Table \| The Marketing Meetup, St Albans	TMM IRL: Bring Your Marketing Challenge. Leave With A Plan.	St Albans	Sign up here
17 Nov	18:00 - 20:00 GMT	Annie-Mai Hodge, Founder at Girl Power Marketing	TMM IRL: 2026 Social Media Updates You Need to Know	Norwich	Sign up here
17 Nov	18:00 - 20:00 GMT	Dave Harland, Managing Partner and Creative Director at Copy Or Die	TMM IRL: How to turn lol-ers into dollars	Liverpool	Sign up here
18 Nov	17:30 - 20:00 GMT	David Sloly, Founder at HarveyDavid	TMM IRL: Where Does AI Take Marketing Next?	Bristol and Bath	Sign up here
18 Nov	17:30 - 19:30 GMT	Dave Harland, Author at The Word Man and Helen Cliff, Co-Founder at SoContented	TMM IRL: Manchester	Manchester	Sign up here
18 Nov	18:00 - 20:30 GMT	Speaker to be confirmed!	TMM IRL: Ashford	Ashford	Sign up here
18 Nov	18:00 - 20:00 GMT	Duarte Garrido, Co-Founder at DOJO AI	TMM IRL: Stop Launching Campaigns. Start Running Loops.	Brighton	Sign up here
19 Nov	18:00 - 20:00 GMT	Speaker to be confirmed!	TMM IRL: Lincoln	Lincoln	Sign up here
25 Nov	18:00 - 20:00 GMT	Speakers from our wonderful community, lightning talk style!	TMM IRL: Lightning talks from folks in the TMM community 😊	Lancashire	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

B2B social for when your company page gets three likes, and one of them is the MD

A quick note before you read: this article was written with the help of AI, using the session transcript from Wistia, so please excuse any mishearings 🙂 – Sarah, TMM Community Human x Table of Contents What we know about the LinkedIn algorithm Personal...

Personal branding: Vivi Koroma Kala on consistency over virality

Vivi spent five years at Squiggly Careers, where she helped grow the podcast from 100,000 downloads to 5.6 million on almost no paid advertising. She’s now an independent consultant, and writes about personal brand consistency on her Substack, Stories and...

TMM x Constant Contact. The School of Email: Live Q&A

Key points This session wrapped up TMM’s four-week School of Email series, recapping key takeaways before opening to live Q&A Email delivers roughly £36 back for every £1 spent, and over 40% of small businesses expect it to be their single most valuable...

Marketing fundamentals: why advertising is getting less effective (and how creativity fixes it)

Key points Marketers have increased advertising spend by roughly 50% over the past 15 years (adjusted for inflation), but the average number of brand effects reported in effectiveness case studies has been falling over the same period Contrary to arguments that...

The State of B2B Brand Distinctiveness 2026: why 80% of B2B brands are invisible

Key points Louis audited 100 B2B tech companies against 8 types of “brand assets” (colour, logo, visual device, typography, taglines, human identity, product UI, and sound), based on Jenny Romaniuk’s research at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute 80% of...

The State of Marketers 2026: what 1,300 marketers told us about how the job actually feels

Key points TMM’s State of Marketers report surveyed 1,248 marketers, not about marketing itself, but about how people in marketing roles are actually doing The headline: the community hasn’t fallen out of love with the craft, but the conditions around...

How to overcome beige: braver, bolder marketing in the age of AI slop

Key points Marketing is defaulting to “beige”: safe, forgettable, functional work, driven by tight budgets, risk-averse stakeholders, and a flood of AI-generated content. One industry report found 57% of UK ads make people feel nothing at all Emotional...

Big Brand or Scale-up: How to Choose the Marketing Role That’s Right for You

Key points Big brand vs. scale-up isn’t really the right question, Kerttu argues. What matters more is the specific challenge, the category, and what stage of your career and life you’re in Both are reversible decisions, not permanent ones. You can move...

Stop talking to audiences. Start talking to fans

Key points Jodie’s central argument: brands need to stop segmenting people as audiences by age, gender and geography, and start understanding them as fans instead, because that’s a far closer match to how people actually see themselves The case for...

Agency and client relationships: Gill Huber on pitching, AI and staying in it for the long run

Key points Agency spend is set to pass £50 billion in the UK for the first time in 2026, but the pressure on both sides is real: 70% of senior marketers say their personal accountability has grown in the last two years Fractional CMOs aren’t a substitute for...

Content Repurposing and Distribution: Amy Woods on Building a Social Calendar You Can Actually Maintain

Amy Woods is founder of Content 10X, a specialist content repurposing agency, and host of the Content 10X podcast. She has spent years helping B2B brands get significantly more value from the content they already have, and is one of the clearest thinkers in the...

Creating quality content at scale: Dan Nelken on writing like a human and growing your audience

Dan Nelken is a creative director, copywriter, author, and speaker based in Vancouver, Canada. His self-published book on copywriting reached number two on Amazon across the UK, US, Canada, and Australia, built entirely on an audience he grew through consistent,...

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.