It’s not possible for any person to checklist all the most productive virtual advertising meetings as no person’s been to all of them. However as our staff has been to fairly a couple of, we concept we’d stay issues easy and proportion those we beloved.
Right here they’re, beginning with the ones with showed dates for 2025.
Subsequent occasion: April 10-11, 2025
Location: Brighton, UK
Costs: £275 (+VAT)
BrightonSEO is a seek advertising convention held two times a yr (April and October) within the coastal hotel of Brighton, UK. It’s almost definitely the biggest and most renowned search engine marketing convention there’s, with hundreds of entrepreneurs attending each yr.
I’ve attended five or six instances now (no less than) and feature even spoken a few instances.
Right here’s me presenting Ahrefs use instances in 2024:
And right here’s me at the primary level explaining how the general public see search engine marketing:
It’s a perfect full of life convention with an excellent environment, lots of unfastened swag, and networking alternatives galore.
We’re additionally common sponsors of the convention, so it’s an excellent one to seek advice from in case you’re short of to fulfill the staff and seize an notorious Ahrefs “tshirt,” SEO for beginners book, and even our kids’s e-book:
Sidenote.
If you’ll be able to’t find the money for the price ticket worth however would nonetheless love to wait, check out getting into a free ticket ballot. Those happen periodically and it sounds as if, round 20% of the individuals who sign up for the poll get a unfastened price ticket so your odds are lovely excellent.
Subsequent occasion: September 3-5, 2025
Location: San Francisco, California, US
Value: $899.25
Inbound is a three-day virtual advertising convention by way of Hubspot that’s “devoted to the most recent traits and ways in advertising, gross sales, and AI.” It’s an enormous convention with 11K attendees and over 200 audio system over 3 days.
Right here’s a handy guide a rough recap of the 2024 occasion:
My colleague Ryan (Legislation) attended a couple of years in the past. You’ll be able to see the dimensions of it right here in considered one of his arty snaps:
The convention additionally has a tendency to draw some lovely high-profile audio system. Dharmesh Shah (Hubspot), Eric Siu (Unmarried Grain), Linda Tong (Webflow), Neil Patel, Shannon Duffy (Asana), or even Ryan Reynolds (sure, the Ryan Reynolds) have spoken within the previous.
If you wish to get a handy guide a rough really feel for the development, check out their YouTube channel the place you’ll be able to view one of the crucial talks for unfastened.
Subsequent occasion: 11th of September, 2025
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Costs: 349 Euros +
Virtual Olympus is a convention aimed toward serving to attendees reinforce their natural seek visitors. It began as a small occasion of round 150 attendees in Wroclaw Poland in 2019, which I used to be fortunate sufficient no longer best to wait but in addition discuss at.
It was once an excellent convention again then, purchase it appears to have developed into one thing even larger and higher judging by way of pictures from 2024s occasion:
For the reason that tickets get started at a very fair 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 neatly value attending in case you care about getting extra natural seek visitors.
Subsequent occasion: TBD (almost definitely November 2025)
Location: TBD (prev. Singapore in 2024)
Costs: ~$650 est.
Held on the surprising Pan Pacific Orchard (lately topped the world’s best new skyscraper), 2024 marked the inaugural Ahrefs Evolve convention in Singapore, welcoming over 500 attendees from 50+ nations.
At the roster have been various large names in search engine marketing and advertising, together with Cyrus Shepard (Zyppy search engine marketing), Aleyda Solis (Orainti), Bernard Huang (Clearscope), Nik Ranger (Dejan Advertising and marketing), and Jason Hennessey Hennessey Virtual)… and their slides by no means regarded higher than on our mammoth display screen:
We additionally held pre-event workshops by way of business mavens and Ahrefs experts.
The jury’s out on the place Evolve shall be held in 2025, however the USA and UK are severe contenders. (Need updates? Subscribe here).
Subsequent occasion: 2025 (date TBA)
Location: Nottingham, UK
Value: ~£75 est.
I reside in Nottingham and was once fortunate sufficient to get invited to talk at this occasion in 2023:
My communicate was once about search engine marketing (as that’s what I do know best possible), however the occasion covers the whole lot from search engine marketing to PPC to content material advertising and social media. It’s additionally unusually massive with over 600 attendees, 4 tracks, and 20-minute clinics the place you’ll be able to get one-to-one recommendation from knowledgeable.
Possibly it’s as it’s up t’north(?), however this convention has a perfect comfy and pleasant vibe. There have been some nice meals vans on the one I attended (Nottingham has an underrated meals scene IMO), and the oldsters from Hallam have been tremendous pleasant.
Even higher, it’s a not-for-profit occasion with the entire proceeds going immediately to native charity, Rainbows Hospice. In 2024, the convention raised over £15K.
Subsequent occasion: 2025 (TBD, however most likely October)
Location: Las Vegas, United States
Costs: TBD
Based in 2001, Pubcon began as a casual amassing of SEOs in a London pub (that is why it’s referred to as PubCon). Nowadays it’s one thing a lot larger but nonetheless lovely low-key in comparison to the likes of BrightonSEO, with 300-400 attendees attending the closing convention in October 2024.
Through the years there were hundreds of speakers together with our very personal Patrick Stox. Closing yr’s occasion was once ruled by way of AI talks, masking such things as:
- Leveraging AI for content material advent
- Optimizing for AI-powered seek
- Figuring out AI’s function in score
Las Vegas appears to be the preferred location for the convention having been held there over a dozen instances. That stated, there have additionally been PubCons in Florida, Boston, Austin, or even London.
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