Community founded in Cambridge in 2016 by Joe Glover, now running around 200 free or donation-ticketed events a year for a community of over 51,000 marketers. Its sessions regularly cover search, content and digital strategy and provide an accessible entry point for practitioners outside major agency hubs.
Around 200 free and donation-based marketing events per year
The Marketing Meetup is a meetup network based in United Kingdom, founded in 2016. Membership is free. It reports roughly 51,000 members.
4 other meetup networks, plus others based in United Kingdom.
Community of African network engineers, policymakers and academics that jointly organises the annual Africa Internet Summit with AFRINIC. It is the main recurring technical forum where African hosting, routing and DNS practice is set, which underpins page-speed and availability for African websites.
Google's touring event series bringing Search relations engineers to regional audiences, with 2025 and 2026 editions announced across Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Americas and the Middle East and Africa. It is the only recurring format where search engine staff take direct technical questions from local SEO communities in person.
Free unconference for digital analytics that started in London in September 2012 with 130 attendees and ran in 27 cities worldwide as of 2025, including Tokyo, Delhi, Sydney, Berlin and San Francisco. Its Saturday, no-fixed-agenda format is the main grassroots venue where analytics and SEO measurement practitioners exchange working methods.
Conference series run by Women in Tech SEO with editions in Philadelphia, London, Berlin, Portland and Melbourne. Every speaking slot goes to a woman in search, making it the main pipeline through which new SEO speakers enter the conference circuit.
UK advertising self-regulator established in 1962 to keep advertising legal, decent, honest and truthful, working alongside the Committee of Advertising Practice which writes the codes. Its rulings cover paid search ads, affiliate content and influencer disclosure, and non-compliant advertisers can have their paid search ads restricted.
UK chartered professional body for marketers, awarding Chartered Marketer status and running accredited qualifications from foundation to postgraduate level. It is the main route by which UK search practitioners obtain a chartered professional credential rather than a vendor certificate.