It’s inconceivable for anybody to checklist all one of the best digital advertising and marketing conferences as no one’s been to all of them. However as our workforce has been to fairly a number of, we thought we’d maintain issues easy and share those we beloved.
Right here they’re, beginning with these with confirmed dates for 2025.
Subsequent occasion: April 10-11, 2025
Location: Brighton, UK
Costs: £275 (+VAT)
BrightonSEO is a search advertising and marketing convention held twice a 12 months (April and October) within the coastal resort of Brighton, UK. It’s in all probability the biggest and most well-known website positioning convention there’s, with hundreds of entrepreneurs attending each 12 months.
I’ve attended 5 or 6 occasions now (at the least) and have even spoken a few occasions.
Right here’s me presenting Ahrefs use instances in 2024:
And right here’s me on the primary stage explaining how most individuals see website positioning:
It’s a brilliant full of life convention with an incredible ambiance, tons of free swag, and networking alternatives galore.
We’re additionally common sponsors of the convention, so it’s an incredible one to go to for those who’re wanting to satisfy the workforce and seize an notorious Ahrefs “tshirt,” website positioning for inexperienced persons guide, and even our youngsters’s guide:
Sidenote.
For those who can’t afford the ticket value however would nonetheless like to attend, strive getting into a free ticket poll. These happen periodically and apparently, round 20% of the individuals who be a part of the poll get a free ticket so your odds are fairly good.
Subsequent occasion: September 3-5, 2025
Location: San Francisco, California, US
Value: $899.25
Inbound is a three-day digital advertising and marketing convention by Hubspot that’s “devoted to the most recent traits and techniques in advertising and marketing, gross sales, and AI.” It’s an enormous convention with 11K attendees and over 200 audio system over three days.
Right here’s a fast recap of the 2024 occasion:
My colleague Ryan (Regulation) attended a number of years in the past. You possibly can see the dimensions of it right here in considered one of his arty snaps:
The convention additionally tends to draw some fairly high-profile audio system. Dharmesh Shah (Hubspot), Eric Siu (Single Grain), Linda Tong (Webflow), Neil Patel, Shannon Duffy (Asana), and even Ryan Reynolds (sure, the Ryan Reynolds) have spoken within the previous.
If you wish to get a fast really feel for the occasion, try their YouTube channel the place you may view a number of the talks for free.
Subsequent occasion: September 11, 2025
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Costs: 349 Euros +
Digital Olympus is a convention aimed toward serving to attendees enhance their natural search site visitors. It began as a small occasion of round 150 attendees in Wroclaw Poland in 2019, which I used to be fortunate sufficient not solely to attend but in addition converse at.
It was an incredible convention again then, purchase it seems to have developed into one thing even greater and higher judging by pictures from 2024s occasion:
Provided that tickets begin at a really cheap 349€ and 2025’s occasion guarantees extra insights from nice audio system like Kevin Indig, Aleyda Solis, and Crystal Carter, I’d say it’s effectively value attending for those who care about getting extra natural search site visitors.
Subsequent occasion: TBD (in all probability November 2025)
Location: TBD (prev. Singapore in 2024)
Costs: ~$650 est.
Held on the beautiful Pan Pacific Orchard (lately topped the world’s finest new skyscraper), 2024 marked the inaugural Ahrefs Evolve convention in Singapore, welcoming over 500 attendees from 50+ nations.
On the roster have been loads of large names in website positioning and advertising and marketing, together with Cyrus Shepard (Zyppy website positioning), Aleyda Solis (Orainti), Bernard Huang (Clearscope), Nik Ranger (Dejan Advertising and marketing), and Jason Hennessey Hennessey Digital)… and their slides by no means appeared higher than on our mammoth display screen:
We additionally held pre-event workshops by business specialists and Ahrefs specialists.
The jury’s out on the place Evolve shall be held in 2025, however the US and UK are critical contenders. (Need updates? Subscribe right here).
Subsequent occasion: 2025 (date TBA)
Location: Nottingham, UK
Value: ~£75 est.
I reside in Nottingham and was fortunate sufficient to get invited to talk at this occasion in 2023:
My discuss was about website positioning (as that’s what I do know finest), however the occasion covers every part from website positioning to PPC to content material advertising and marketing and social media. It’s additionally surprisingly massive with over 600 attendees, 4 tracks, and 20-minute clinics the place you may get one-to-one recommendation from an knowledgeable.
Perhaps it’s as a result of it’s up t’north(?), however this convention has a brilliant relaxed and pleasant vibe. There have been some nice meals vehicles on the one I attended (Nottingham has an underrated meals scene IMO), and the parents from Hallam have been tremendous pleasant.
Even higher, it’s a not-for-profit occasion with the entire proceeds going on to native charity, Rainbows Hospice. In 2024, the convention raised over £15K.
Subsequent occasion: 2025 (TBD, however probably October)
Location: Las Vegas, United States
Costs: TBD
Based in 2001, Pubcon began as an off-the-cuff gathering of SEOs in a London pub (because of this it’s referred to as PubCon). Lately it’s one thing a lot greater but nonetheless fairly low-key in comparison with the likes of BrightonSEO, with 300-400 attendees attending the final convention in October 2024.
Over time there have been tons of of audio system together with our very personal Patrick Stox. Final 12 months’s occasion was dominated by AI talks, masking issues like:
- Leveraging AI for content material creation
- Optimizing for AI-powered search
- Understanding AI’s function in rating
Las Vegas appears to be the preferred location for the convention having been held there over a dozen occasions. That stated, there have additionally been PubCons in Florida, Boston, Austin, and even London.
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