Top Marketing Conferences to Attend in 2025

Whether you’re an agency marketer or you’re looking to grow your own business, hearing from some of the top marketing experts can only be beneficial.

The good news is that there are plenty of high-quality marketing conferences taking place in 2025.

Why You Should Attend A Marketing Conference

There are lots of excellent online resources to improve your marketing knowledge and skills. But marketing conferences offer unique benefits.

Even in 2025, nothing beats in-person conferences when it comes to networking. These events are your chance to meet like-minded professionals, learn from them and forge lasting connections.

Additionally, conferences offer a real breadth of perspectives. A course might have been put together by one expert, or a small team. But conferences provide insight from a whole range of marketing leaders on the very latest trends in the field.

Wherever you live, there’s a marketing conference for you in 2025, with events planned across the globe and virtually. I’ve compiled a list of some key dates.

Top Marketing Conferences in 2025

SMX

SMX (Search Marketing Expo) is a comprehensive event for digital marketers. The conference offers expert-level training and tactical sessions from industry leaders in SEO and search engine marketing.

The flagship SMX Advanced conference will take place in Boston from June 11-13, 2025 and offers the perfect networking opportunity for marketing professionals. The Expo+ pass includes free access to keynotes and Expo Hall activities at the Boston event.

You can obtain an All Access pass for $1,595, which unlocks all networking opportunities. Visit the SMX homepage to grab tickets. And use the discount code ET15 for a 15% discount.

Spotlight by Semrush

Semrush will once again host the Spotlight Conference in 2025. It’s always a highlight of the marketing calendar.

This year, Semrush is returning to Amsterdam. The conference will be held on October 29.

A lot gets packed into a single-day event. There will be 60+ speakers from the likes of Duolingo, Kickstarter, and VEED, as well as 150+ mastermind sessions.

Attendees take in a talk at the 2024 Spotlight by Semrush conference.

You can join the Spotlight waitlist for updates and access to the best prices. Promotional offers are released in small batches, with 150 tickets set to become available in the Summer Sale on July 21.

Digital Summit

Digital Summit hosts a range of events throughout the year. In fact, it bills itself as the largest marketing event series, putting on 1200+ sessions, workshops and seminars annually.

The next event comes in Denver, Colorado, from June 2-3. Speakers from companies including Spotify, Google, Salesforce and the Denver Broncos will discuss topics including AI in SEO, paid marketing, and B2B conversion.

A conference pass is currently available for the Last Chance rate of $625 (increasing to $725 later). A premium pass currently costs $825, with a VIP pass available for $1,025.

Other Digital Summit events this year include Minneapolis (August 6-7), Philadelphia (September 30-October 1), and Raleigh (November 12-13). Previous speakers include Mark Cuban, Steve Wozniak and Randi Zuckerberg.

Steve Wozniak speaking at a previous Digital Summit conference.

Gartner Marketing Symposium

Renowned research and consulting firm Gartner hosts its Marketing Symposium event annually. This year, it takes place from June 2-4.

Describing itself as “the world’s most important gathering of CMOs and Marketing Executives”, the 2025 edition will take place in Denver, Colorado. A range of in-house Gartner experts are confirmed speakers.

It’s one of the more expensive events on the calendar. The standard price is $5,075, while public-sector attendees can register for $4,250. Additionally, there are group booking offers for further discounts.

Gartner also held a London event from May 12-13. That's one to look out for next year if you're a European marketer.

Inbound

Run by marketing specialists Hubspot, Inbound is one of the most anticipated events of the year. The 2025 edition will be held in San Francisco from September 3-5.

The conference attracts more than 12,000 attendees, with a further 90,000 people watching the live stream. Speakers include Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, Dharmesh Shah, the co-founder of Hubspot, and comedian and actress Amy Poehler.

Last year’s Inbound conference.

Tier 1, Tier 2 and Cyber Monday general admission tickets are already sold out, but Tier 3 tickets are available for $1,399. Tier 1 VIP tickets have also all gone, but you can buy a Tier 2 pass for $1,999.

Festival of Marketing

The Festival of Marketing has now confirmed a date for 2025. It will run on October 2 in London. 

The first batches of tickets have also been released. Early Bird passes have sold out already, but Standard passes are available for £899 (approximately $1190), and you can buy VIP passes for £999 (~$1320).

Some speakers were recently confirmed. They include Antonia Wade, Global Chief Marketing Officer at PwC, Javier Meza, Chief Marketing Officer at Coca-Cola Europe, and Martin Nance, Chief Marketing Officer at the Minnesota Vikings.

DigiMarCon

A major player in the world of marketing conferences, DigiMarCon is putting on more than 40 events around the world over the course of 2025.

The majority will take place in various locations throughout the USA, but there are also conferences in South Africa, the UK, Ireland, the UAE, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Spain and The Netherlands.

DigiMarCon World is billed as “the premier digital marketing, media and advertising conference and exhibition in the world”. It takes place from November 5-7 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

There’s an impressive list of previous DigiMarCon attendees, including Google, Amazon, and Apple.

Previous DigiMarCon attendees

For the Las Vegas event, Main Conference passes are available at the Super Early Bird rate of $880.13 until August 29. An All-Access pass currently costs $1,197, while a VIP pass is $1,450.48.

Alternatively, you can also attend DigiMarCon online. A virtual pass is available for $154.23.

Reuters Events: Strategic Marketing 2025

The Reuters Strategic Marketing Conference will be held in New York on November 3.

Unlike other events on this list, the Reuters conference is not open to everyone. It's exclusively for directors and C-suite executives —  making it a valuable networking opportunity if you meet the criteria.

70% of attendees lead the marketing departments at major businesses. Speakers include the Chief Marketing Officer at Unicef, the Senior Vice President at TNT Sports, and the VP of Product and Retention at Etsy.

B2B Marketing Expo

Marketing comes in many shapes and sizes, and the B2B Marketing Expo focuses specifically on business-to-business marketing. It will be held in London from November 19-20.

Like many of the 2025 conferences, it will address AI and its implications for the marketing industry. Speakers will also be discussing the evolution of the B2B marketing space, and the best ways to get creative.

A speaker at a previous edition of the B2B Marketing Expo.

More than 5,000 attendees are expected, along with over 100 exhibitors and 120 expert speakers. Further details are yet to be confirmed, but you can register your interest in attending.

There's also a one-day event in Manchester for the first time this year on July 16. Tickets cost £199 (approximately $265) plus VAT.

Top Virtual Marketing Conferences 2025

Travelling won’t be convenient for everyone. And one positive lasting legacy of the pandemic is a thriving remote marketing conference scene, both in terms of dedicated events and virtual access options to physical conferences. Here are some online-only events I have picked out:

The MarTech Conference

MarTech is a twice-yearly online conference that's completely free to attend. It's aimed at marketing technology professionals, practitioners, and thought leaders. 

The spring event took place on March 25-26. But you can catch the fall conference, which is scheduled for September 17-18. Registration opens in July.

Each event will include keynotes, industry panels, and practical sessions. You can expect to hear about the latest developments in marketing analytics and customer experience platforms.

DigiMarCon

With such a wide range of events throughout the year, DigiMarCon is one of the best when it comes to catering for everyone. That includes a range of virtual conferences, all of which are broadcast live before then being made available on-demand.

First up is DigiMarCon South America, which will run from June 16-17. Events pitched at different regions then run throughout the year, before the worldwide DigiMarCon At Home from November 5-7.

Virtual tickets are also available to most of DigiMarCon’s in-person conferences.

Social Media Strategies Summit

The Social Media Strategies Summit is actually a series of conferences. It hosts events throughout the year designed for social media specialists within specific fields.

For example, there’s the Social Media for Government virtual conference from June 4-5. The Higher Ed virtual conference is in October.

The main event is the Social Media Strategies virtual conference. That will take place from June 18-19, with a pre-conference workshop on June 17.

Speakers include Amanda Mulligan, the Director of Social Media at McDonald's. Last Chance tickets cost $649 and are available until the day before the conference, while "at-the-door" tickets from June 17 cost $749.

Get Ahead Of The Game By Attending Marketing Conferences

Marketing conferences are brilliant for honing your skills, knowledge and network.

Check back in with this list to keep up to date with all the latest events and details. In particular, I’ll bring you everything you need to know about Spotlight by Semrush, which is sure to be a brilliant event.

For now:

• Take advantage of Semrush’s excellent online resources. If you’re looking to grow as a marketer or business owner, there’s nowhere better to start than having a powerful array of tools at your fingertips. Our full review of Semrush explains what the platform has to offer.
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