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:
How marketers should be looking to up skill in 2020
Now is the time many marketers are looking to up skill. Here’s the areas we would be focusing our attention in 2020:
Diversity and The Marketing Meetup: Actions
How The Marketing Meetup is striving to do better from a diversity point of view.
How I wrote a song which meant we ended up working with Fiverr.
How I wrote a song which meant we ended up working with Fiverr. Because sometimes, you have to do things differently.
CV support for The Marketing Meetup Community, provided by Brand Recruitment and Pitch Consultants
Things are hard right now. Chances are, they will get even tougher.
And while we can’t click our fingers and make things better, we wanted to do what we could to help. So, working with our friends and partners at Brand Recruitment and Pitch Consultants, we’re offering the community 30 minute CV sessions.
A message from Sean Paul for The Marketing Meetup… no, seriously.
You know how every brand in the world is messaging you that they’re there for you right now? Well, we got Sean Paul to do ours.
The Marketing Meetup and Coronavirus
We’re moving The Marketing Meetup events online in response to Coronavirus ❌😷
Marketers Bingo
Marketers… we all do the same stuff really.
The Marketing Meetup is going to… New York!
The Marketing Meetup is going to… New York!
Further joins the growing Gravity Global family
Leading international B2B agency Gravity Global has announced today that it has acquired the multi award-winning digital marketing agency, Further.
100 days to make a difference: The habit calendar
It is said that if you repeatedly do something for 100 days straight, it becomes a habit.
So we made you one to help you do the thing that you want to change in your life, or your marketing.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Name | Location | Get yo' space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 May | 14:00 - 15:00 BST | Amy Woods, CEO & Founder at Content 10x | How to Build a Social Content Calendar You Can Actually Maintain | Online | Sign up here |
| 21 May | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Dré Picart, Co-Founder at Tribera | TMM IRL: The Human Value in Marketing in a world of AI | Birmingham | Sign up here |
| 28 May | 16:00 - 17:00 BST | Elise Beck, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Wistia; and Maggie Philbin, Senior Product Manager at HubSpot | From Webinar Engagement to Pipeline | Online | Sign up here |
| 3 Jun | 18:30 - 20:30 EDT | Elizabeth Monier-Williams, Marketing Consultant | TMM IRL: LinkedIn Glow-Up – Presenting Your Best Self | Toronto | Sign up here |
| 5 Jun | 09:00 - 16:30 BST | Coworking, Cake & Xandrina Allday | Cowork Crew: Where to Focus on Social Media in 2026 (and What to Stop Wasting Time On) | Cambridge | Sign up here |
| 5 Jun | 09:00 - 16:30 BST | Coworking, Cake & Glen Stout | Cowork Crew: Make your website visitors say “shut up and take my money” | Milton Keynes | Sign up here |
| 8 Jun | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Liz Ramsden, Director and Coach at The Hobbs Consultancy | TMM IRL: Making Friends With Your Stress Response | Guildford | Sign up here |
| 9 Jun | 15:00 - 18:00 BST | Multiple speakers - SE Ranking x Planable | Stop thinking in channels. Start building ecosystems. | Online | Sign up here |
| 10 Jun | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Leesa Morris, Brand Story Copywriter & Published Author | TMM IRL: It’s Not About You. How to Tell a Brand Story That’s All About Your Ideal Client | Milton Keynes | Sign up here |
| 12 Jun | 09:00 - 16:30 BST | Coworking, Cake & Steve Simmonds | Cowork Crew: Sales & Kindness | London | Sign up here |
| 12 Jun | 09:00 - 16:30 BST | Coworking, Cake & Glen Stout | Cowork Crew: AI and SEO – What’s Changing and How to Adapt | Birmingham | Sign up here |
| 16 Jun | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Richard Midgley, Founder of Ponderosa | TMM IRL: Outthinking the Competition: Lessons from the Most Powerful Brands | Leeds | Sign up here |
| 16 Jun | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Liverpool | Liverpool | Sign up here |
| 16 Jun | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Leamington Spa | Leamington Spa | Sign up here |
| 18 Jun | 09:00 - 16:30 BST | Coworking, Cake & Dave James | Cowork Crew: Speaking without Freaking | Northampton | Sign up here |
| 18 Jun | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Ian Bamford, Founder at Foundry12 | TMM IRL: Stop Gambling With Growth. Big or Small, Brand is Your Greatest De-risker | Hertfordshire | Sign up here |
| 18 Jun | 18:30 - 20:30 CEST | Claudia Vaccarone, Strategic Communications & Inclusion Strategy Consultant | TMM IRL: Mind your language – bias, culture and communication that includes | Geneva | Sign up here |
| 23 Jun | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be announced! | TMM IRL: Fife | Fife | Sign up here |
| 23 Jun | 18:00 - 20:00 EEST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Cluj Napoca | Sign up here | |
| 24 Jun | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Reading | Reading | Sign up here |
| 25 Jun | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Dave Endsor, Social Media Strategist and Founder at Chapter and Collette Pratt, Senior Programmatic Strategist at Impression | TMM IRL: Building social media communities with real business impact | Nottingham | Sign up here |
| 26 Jun | 09:00 - 16:30 BST | Coworking, Cake & Penny Brazier | Cowork Crew: Write for connection first, conversion second | Leeds | Sign up here |
| 8 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Wrexham | Wrexham | Sign up here |
| 8 Jul | 18:00 - 19:30 BST | An Open Space session with folks from the community | TMM IRL: Buckinghamshire | Buckinghamshire | Sign up here |
| 9 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Philip Ainsworth, Founder at BEVAMO | TMM IRL: Celebrity brands – boom or bust in the UK? | Peterborough | Sign up here |
| 14 Jul | 17:30 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed | TMM IRL: Newcastle | Newcastle | Sign up here |
| 14 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed | TMM IRL: Manchester | Manchester | Sign up here |
| 15 Jul | 17:30 - 20:00 BST | Rob Harrison-Plastow, Founder and CEO at Emotive Strategy Studio | TMM IRL: The Logic Of Emotion – Why Nothing Is Irrational & What To Do About It | Bristol and Bath | Sign up here |
| 15 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Becky Brennan, Head of Marketing | TMM IRL: Exeter | Exeter | Sign up here |
| 15 Jul | 18:00 - 20:30 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Ashford | Ashford | Sign up here |
| 16 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Ben Jayston, Head of SMB SEO at GAIN Performance Accelerate | TMM IRL: What SMBs can learn from the best (and worst!) social media campaigns | Winchester | Sign up here |
| 16 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Lincoln | Lincoln | Sign up here |
| 16 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed! | TMM IRL: Cheltenham | Cheltenham | Sign up here |
| 21 Jul | 18:00 - 20:00 BST | Speaker to be confirmed | TMM IRL: Cambridge | Cambridge | Sign up here |





