6 Digital Marketing Conferences We’ve Been To & Love

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It’s intolerable for anyone to database all the champion integer selling conferences arsenic nobody’s been to them all. But arsenic our squad has been to rather a few, we thought we’d support things elemental and stock the ones we loved.

Here they are, starting with those with confirmed dates for 2025.

Next event: April 10-11, 2025
Location: Brighton, UK
Prices: £275 (+VAT)

BrightonSEO is simply a hunt selling league held doubly a twelvemonth (April and October) successful the coastal edifice of Brighton, UK. It’s astir apt the largest and astir celebrated SEO league determination is, with thousands of marketers attending every year.

I’ve attended 5 oregon 6 times present (at least) and person adjacent spoken a mates of times.

Here’s maine presenting Ahrefs usage cases in 2024:

And here’s maine connected the main signifier explaining however astir radical see SEO:

It’s a ace lively league with a large atmosphere, tons of escaped swag, and networking opportunities galore.

We’re besides regular sponsors of the conference, truthful it’s a large 1 to sojourn if you’re wanting to conscionable the squad and drawback an infamous Ahrefs “tshirt,” SEO for beginners book, oregon adjacent our children’s book:

Sidenote.

If you can’t spend the summons terms but would inactive emotion to attend, effort entering a escaped summons ballot. These instrumentality spot periodically and apparently, astir 20% of the radical who articulation the ballot get a escaped summons truthful your likelihood are beauteous good.

Next event: September 3-5, 2025
Location: San Francisco, California, US
Price: $899.25

Inbound is simply a three-day integer selling league by Hubspot that’s “dedicated to the latest trends and tactics successful marketing, sales, and AI.” It’s a immense league with 11K attendees and implicit 200 speakers implicit three days.

Here’s a speedy recap of the 2024 event:

My workfellow Ryan (Law) attended a fewer years ago. You tin spot the size of it present successful 1 of his arty snaps:

The league besides tends to pull immoderate beauteous high-profile speakers. Dharmesh Shah (Hubspot), Eric Siu (Single Grain), Linda Tong (Webflow), Neil Patel, Shannon Duffy (Asana), and adjacent Ryan Reynolds (yes, the Ryan Reynolds) person spoken successful the past.

If you privation to get a speedy consciousness for the event, check retired their YouTube channel wherever you tin presumption immoderate of the talks for free.

Next event: September 11, 2025
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Prices: 349 Euros +

Digital Olympus is simply a league aimed astatine helping attendees amended their integrated hunt traffic. It started arsenic a tiny lawsuit of astir 150 attendees successful Wroclaw Poland successful 2019, which I was fortunate capable not lone to be but besides speak at.

It was a large league backmost then, bargain it looks to person evolved into thing adjacent bigger and amended judging by photos from 2024s event:

Given that tickets commencement astatine a precise tenable 349€ and 2025’s lawsuit promises much insights from large speakers similar Kevin Indig, Aleyda Solis, and Crystal Carter, I’d accidental it’s good worthy attending if you attraction astir getting much integrated hunt traffic.

Next event: TBD (probably November 2025)
Location: TBD (prev. Singapore successful 2024)
Prices: ~$650 est.

Held astatine the stunning Pan Pacific Orchard (recently crowned the world’s champion caller skyscraper), 2024 marked the inaugural Ahrefs Evolve league successful Singapore, welcoming implicit 500 attendees from 50+ countries.

On the roster were plentifulness of large names successful SEO and marketing, including Cyrus Shepard (Zyppy SEO), Aleyda Solis (Orainti), Bernard Huang (Clearscope), Nik Ranger (Dejan Marketing), and Jason Hennessey Hennessey Digital)… and their slides ne'er looked amended than connected our mammoth screen:

We besides held pre-event workshops by manufacture experts and Ahrefs specialists.

The jury’s retired connected wherever Evolve volition beryllium held successful 2025, but the US and UK are superior contenders. (Want updates? Subscribe here).

Next event: 2025 (date TBA)
Location: Nottingham, UK
Price: ~£75 est.

I unrecorded successful Nottingham and was fortunate capable to get invited to talk astatine this lawsuit in 2023:

My speech was astir SEO (as that’s what I cognize best), but the lawsuit covers everything from SEO to PPC to contented selling and societal media. It’s besides amazingly ample with implicit 600 attendees, 4 tracks, and 20-minute clinics wherever you tin get one-to-one proposal from an expert.

Maybe it’s due to the fact that it’s up t’north(?), but this league has a ace relaxed and affable vibe. There were immoderate large nutrient trucks astatine the 1 I attended (Nottingham has an underrated nutrient country IMO), and the folks from Hallam were ace friendly.

Even better, it’s a not-for-profit lawsuit with each of the proceeds going straight to section charity, Rainbows Hospice. In 2024, the league raised implicit £15K.

Next event: 2025 (TBD, but apt October)
Location: Las Vegas, United States
Prices: TBD

Founded successful 2001, Pubcon started arsenic an informal gathering of SEOs successful a London pub (this is wherefore it’s called PubCon). These days it’s thing overmuch bigger yet inactive beauteous low-key compared to the likes of BrightonSEO, with 300-400 attendees attending the past league successful October 2024.

Over the years determination person been hundreds of speakers including our precise ain Patrick Stox. Last year’s lawsuit was dominated by AI talks, covering things like:

Leveraging AI for contented creation
Optimizing for AI-powered search
Understanding AI’s relation successful ranking

Las Vegas seems to beryllium the astir fashionable determination for the league having been held determination implicit a twelve times. That said, determination person besides been PubCons successful Florida, Boston, Austin, and adjacent London.