8 Can’t-Miss Marketing Events From Now to 2025
Let’s cut to it.
You don’t need another lanyard.
You need to know the rooms where the smartest Marketers are learning, networking, and getting ahead.
These 8 events? They’re the 1s worth traveling for, tuning into, or texting your boss about.
🏰 Marketingland Festival
🗓: October 30, 2025
💻: Virtual
💰: Free
A festival for Marketers who want real ideas, not recycled keynotes. With 3 tracks: Growthland, Demandland, and Creativeland. It’s built for Marketers who actually care about results and also want to have the most fun they’ve ever had while working. Expect tactical insights, surprising guests, and a little Halloween chaos.
Costumes encouraged. Skinny Jeans Optional (it’s a festival). 🏰
🤝 INBOUND 2025 (by HubSpot)
🗓: September 3–5, 2025
📍: San Francisco, CA
💰: Starting at $1,399
INBOUND is heading west to San Francisco’s Moscone Center for the 1st time. Expect celebrity keynotes, new sessions, and 11 stages packed with AI, revenue, and brand strategy insights. I’ll be speaking and hosting a meetup for The Marketing Millennials. Come through and say hey.
📹 VidSummit 2025
🗓: October 7–9, 2025
📍: Dallas, TX
💰: Starting at $895
Where the top 1% of creators drop the real strategies behind their growth. No fans, just operators sharing the blueprints to scale. If you’re serious about video, audience building, and monetization, this is the room to be in.
🧃 VidCon Anaheim 2025
🗓: June 19–21, 2025
📍: Anaheim, CA
💰: $175–$1130 (based on badge)
VidCon is where creators, fans, brands, and platforms all meet in real life. If your brand plays in social, UGC, or youth culture, this is the place to watch what’s next. The panels are sharp, the energy is wild, and the insights are straight from the people shaping internet culture in real time.
📧 GURU Conference 2025
🗓: November 6–7, 2025
💻: Virtual
💰: Free
The world’s largest virtual email marketing conference is back. 2 days. 24,000+ marketers. 0 cost. Expect sessions from heavy hitters like Ann Handley, Jay Schwedelson, Ross Simmonds, Amy Porterfield, and NICOLE KIDMAN. All sharing real strategies you can apply immediately. If email is part of your plan, this is your annual recharge.
🌴 Cannes Lions
🗓: June 16–20, 2025
📍: Cannes, France
💰: Pricey (passes start at ~$4,000, flights/lodging = bring the Amex)
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This isn’t a conference. It’s an experience. Think yacht parties, champagne panels, and big-brand creative campaigns that win awards (and sometimes actual business). More for global brands, agencies, and execs. But, if you get the invite, you go. I wish I’d get 1 LOL.
📚 Content Marketing World 2025
🗓: October 14–16, 2025
📍: Washington, D.C.
💰: Starting around $1,000
This is the OG content marketing conference. If you lead a content team or want to be the person with the sharpest takes in strategy meetings, this is your playground. Think SEO, storytelling, AI, distribution, and a community.
☁️ Dreamforce 2025
🗓: October 14–16, 2025
📍: San Francisco, CA
💰: Starting at $999 (early pricing)
The Salesforce main event. Dreamforce is where AI, CRM, data, and tech collide. 1,000+ sessions, real product demos, and insights from the biggest names in B2B. If you’re building pipeline, running ops, or steering digital strategy, it’s a can’t-miss.
I’ve been watching this event from afar since 2015.
🎁 BONUS: Ecom’s Guide to AI
🗓: May 28, 2025
💻: Virtual
💰: Free
My wife built an AI agent that writes creative briefs using real performance data from Triple Whale. You’ll meet it, use it, and wonder why your team didn’t build this 1st. Plus, hear how Pressed Juicery is actually using AI in the wild. If you work in DTC, creative, or just wanna be the smartest one in your Slack channel…go.
Sign up. It’s free. It’s this Wednesday. Proud of you, Ari. Thanks for letting me watch the Indy 500. I know there’s a lot of laps, to your point.
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