Rory Sutherland
Rory Sutherland started in 1988 as a graduate trainee at Ogilvy and since has risen through the ranks to the title of Vice-Chairman. This title is vague, quite consciously, but in effect gives Rory the freedom to explore advertising, as well as look to elevate the industry through his many speaking and writing for The Spectator and in his recent book, Alchemy.
He is also the owner of a Japanese toilet fact, which is a fun fact, but also pretty damn cool.
Rory Sutherland’s talks with The Marketing Meetup:
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The quick story of The Marketing Meetup
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How we set up Zoom for Marketing Meetup Webinars
Zoom has become one of The Marketing Meetup’s most important bits of software.
And while we’ve all no doubt set up many a Zoom meeting for the purposes of quizzes and more, learning about how to do it for webinars wasn’t all that easy. So, we thought we’d create a (not short) video, on what the background operation of setting a Zoom webinar looks like.
A Marketing Masterclass: Son of a Tailor
Part of the reason I love running The Marketing Meetup is that I love seeing great marketing in action. As Rand Fishkin puts it, ‘marketing done well can be a noble act’, because it matches a ‘need’ to a solution, which ultimately improves someone’s life.
So when a company absolutely markets the sh*t out of me in a compelling way, I can’t help but feel like I want to 1) sit back and clap, and 2) learn as much as I can from them.
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| Date | Time | Speaker | Name | Location | Get yo' space |
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| 19 Mar | 09:00 - 18:30 GMT | lots of wonderful speakers from the TMM community 💜 | The Marketing Meetup Conference 2026 | London | Sign up here |
| 19 Mar | 17:00 - 18:00 GMT | Jay Acunzo, Advisor, Author, Speaking & Storytelling Consultant | Host Better Webinars: Registrants to Revenue | Online | Sign up here |
| 25 Mar | 17:00 - 18:00 GMT | Team Wistia: Chris, Brendan, Courtney and Nick | Beyond AI Hype: A video workflow you’ll actually use | Online | Sign up here |
| 25 Mar | 18:00 - 20:00 GMT | Kim Arnold, Founder at Email Attraction | TMM IRL: Get What You Want Every Time You Hit Send | London | Sign up here |
| 25 Mar | 18:00 - 20:00 GMT | Lea Turner, Director at The HoLT | TMM IRL: The Unhinged Marketing Moments that Made a Solo Mum Millions | Lancashire | Sign up here |
| 25 Mar | 18:00 - 20:00 GMT | Laurey Buckland, Creator of StoryLed™ | TMM IRL: The Power of Storytelling – How to Make Your Message Human and Impossible to Ignore | Lincoln | Sign up here |
| 26 Mar | 09:00 - 17:00 GMT | Nick Crawford, AI Trainer & Implementation Consultant | Ask Me Anything – Making AI work for you as a marketer | Online | Sign up here |
| 26 Mar | 18:00 - 20:00 GMT | Jodie Oliver, Marketing Content Manager at Upperton Pharma Solutions; and Sophie Thompson, Senior SEO Strategist at Impression | TMM IRL: Nottingham | Nottingham | Sign up here |
| 1 Apr | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Lucy Wooldridge, Master Mindset Coach | TMM IRL: Bring yourself to the party – the core values that make your humanity a winning asset | Fleet | Sign up here |
| 1 Apr | 18:30 - 20:30 EDT | Amrita Mathur, Marketing/Growth advisor for B2B | TMM IRL: Leads are up. Revenue is lying. Welcome to the new Growth rollercoaster | Toronto | Sign up here |
| 8 Apr | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Glen Stout, Founder & CEO at Dibble Digital | TMM IRL: AI and SEO – What’s Changing and How to Adapt | Milton Keynes | Sign up here |
| 9 Apr | 09:00 - 15:00 BST | George Danaila, Senior Content Marketing Manager at Planable | Ask Me Anything – How to use social media to get found by AI | Online | Sign up here |
| 9 Apr | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Emily Monsell-Holden, CoFounder at The Impact Apothecary | TMM IRL: The biggest leaver most marketers aren’t pulling | Winchester | Sign up here |
| 10 Apr | 09:00 - 16:30 BST | Coworking, Cake & Lewis English | Cowork Crew: Why Saying No Is the Secret to Growing Your Business | Cambridge | Sign up here |
| 16 Apr | 09:00 - 16:30 BST | Coworking, Cake & Su Khanna | Cowork Crew: The three pillars of pitching | Northampton | Sign up here |
| 16 Apr | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed 😊 | TMM IRL: Portsmouth | Portsmouth | Sign up here |
| 16 Apr | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Joe Glover, Co-Founder at The Marketing Meetup | TMM IRL: Peterborough | Peterborough | Sign up here |
| 17 Apr | 09:00 - 16:30 BST | Coworking, Cake & Jodie Newman | Cowork Crew: How to build brilliant brand moments | London | Sign up here |
| 17 Apr | 09:00 - 16:30 BST | Coworking, Cake & Ant Ackers | Cowork Crew: Mountain Metaphors | Leeds | Sign up here |
| 21 Apr | 18:30 - 20:00 EDT | Julia Grandoni, Co Founder, & Nicole Alexakis, Creative Director, at Creative Junii | TMM IRL: Ask Me Anything “AMA” on User-Generated Content | Montreal | Sign up here |
| 21 Apr | 19:00 - 20:30 CEST | Speakers from the TMM Geneva community! | TMM IRL: Wins, Wobbles and What we Learned | Geneva | Sign up here |
| 22 Apr | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Max Denning, Web Growth Specialist: SEO, GEO & CRO at Pluxee | TMM IRL: Is SEO Dead? Future-Proofing Digital Marketing for the Age of AI Search | Reading | Sign up here |
| 23 Apr | 09:00 - 17:00 BST | Nick Silverstone, Fractional MD & Senior Leaders ADHD Business Coach | Ask Me Anything: Prioritisation & Overwhelm | Online | Sign up here |
| 23 Apr | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Sheffield | Sheffield | Sign up here |
| 24 Apr | 09:00 - 16:30 BST | Coworking, Cake & James Sandbrook | Cowork Crew: The Human Advantage – How to Build a Business People Actually Feel | Birmingham | Sign up here |
| 28 Apr | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Leeds | Leeds | Sign up here |
| 5 May | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Giles Etherington, Founder and Brand Creator at Brand Satellite | TMM IRL: Fife | Fife | Sign up here |
| 7 May | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | James Sandbrook, Cofounder at The Marketing Meetup | TMM IRL: Northampton | Northampton | Sign up here |
| 12 May | 17:30 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Newcastle | Newcastle | Sign up here |
| 12 May | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Manchester | Manchester | Sign up here |
| 14 May | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Edinburgh | Edinburgh | Sign up here |
| 14 May | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Cheltenham | Cheltenham | Sign up here |
| 19 May | 17:30 - 20:00 BST | Rupen Shah, Head of Client Services at Thinkbox | TMM IRL: Why Brands Still Matter & How TV Remains The Ultimate Brand Builder | Bristol and Bath | Sign up here |
| 19 May | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Cambridge | Cambridge | Sign up here |
| 19 May | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Norwich | Norwich | Sign up here |
| 20 May | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Exeter | Exeter | Sign up here |
| 21 May | 09:00 - 17:00 BST | Max Hopkinson, Founder of The Keynote Club | Ask Me Anything – Find your speaking territory and build a talk people remember | Online | Sign up here |
| 21 May | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Birmingham | Birmingham | Sign up here |
| 28 May | 09:00 - 17:00 BST | Luan Wise FCIM, Social Media Consultant, Trainer & Author | Ask Me Anything – How to nail B2B marketing in 2026 | Online | Sign up here |