The marketing landscape continues to move quickly, tasking industry executives to keep a pulse on innovation in the event that they wish to construct brand awareness and consumer loyalty. Accordingly, quite a few marketing conferences are slated to return in 2025 to offer executives a likelihood to network and share fresh ideas around strategy.
Upcoming events are likely to touch on the promoting industry’s latest trends, including artificial intelligence (AI) in marketing, retail media, navigating cord-cutting behavior amid connected TV’s boom and marketing to Gen Z. Notable organizers including the Association of National Advertisers and Interactive Advertising Bureau have already begun to work out their conference plans for the approaching 12 months.
Below, Marketing Dive has compiled among the most notable 2025 conferences which have been announced to date. We’ll plan to proceed updating this list as recent events arise and more information becomes available.
Top marketing conferences in 2025
CES
Jan. 7-10
Las Vegas
The Consumer Electronics Show is a trade-only event for professionals affiliated with the buyer technology industry. The event is an area for global brands to meet recent partners, unveil modern releases and breakthroughs and interact with immersive activations and demos. The trade show is hosted by the Consumer Technology Association.
SXSW
March 7-15
Austin, Texas
The annual SXSW Conference & Festivals bring together global professionals across the tech, film, music and tv realms for networking, discovery and skilled development. The event features conference sessions, film and TV festival screenings, music festival showcases, exhibitions, competitions, awards and more.
Possible
April 28-30
Miami Beach, Florida
Possible was co-founded by MMA’s Greg Stuart and Christian Muche, the co-founder of DMEXCO, and was launched in 2023. The event includes networking opportunities, masterclasses, workshops, an exposition, VIP programming and entertainment curated for the greater marketing ecosystem, spanning brands, technology, digital and more.
ANA Brand Masters
May 7-9
Los Angeles
The Association of National Advertisers’ (ANA) Brand Masters Conference is a two-day event that goals to provide marketers with actionable ideas to drive the expansion of their brands. The conference gives attendees a likelihood to engage with other industry professionals and in the past has featured speakers from firms including Nationwide, Criteo, Crayola and more.
IAB NewFronts
Spring
Location TBD
The IAB NewFronts serves as a digital content marketplace bringing together media buyers, agencies, brands, publishers, streaming platforms and more to discuss the most recent innovations coming down the pike. The IAB’s 2024 event featured quite a few live presentations with representation from giants like Nielsen, Vizio, Dentsu and Google.
Cannes Lions
June 16-20
Cannes, France
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity hosts hundreds of advertisers from across the globe to have a good time the industry’s most prestigious work and listen to from quite a lot of thought leaders who’ve made an impact on the space. The festival draws from over 90 countries and hosts north of 12,000 people, 550 agencies and 350 brands.
Advertising Week
Fall
New York
Advertising Week New York, certainly one of the industry’s biggest U.S. gatherings, brings together professionals across the marketing, promoting, technology and brand landscapes to discuss the buzziest trends shaping the industry. The four-day event goals to deliver practical insights to marketers via a slate of programming that in the past has included speakers from giants like Mondelez, the NFL and Johnson & Johnson.
DMEXCO
Date TBD
Cologne, Germany
The Digital Marketing Exposition & Conference (DMEXCO) is billed as Europe’s leading digital marketing and tech event. The conference is open to industry leaders, marketing and media professionals and tech innovators and hosts debates, masterclasses, expositions and keynotes meant to provide insights around the long run of the digital economy.
ANA Masters of Marketing
Oct. 21-24
Orlando
The ANA’s Masters of Marketing Conference invites marketing professionals to explore the long run of the industry. The event features speakers, workshops and strategic discussions around marketing’s challenges and opportunities. Last 12 months’s event featured speakers from Amazon Ads, Mars, Google and more.
Programmatic I/O, Las Vegas
Date TBD
Las Vegas
AdExhanger’s Programmatic I/O conference invites industry professionals to explore the most recent trends around commerce media, connected TV, privacy and more in effort to help drive programmatic strategies. The most up-to-date iteration of the event in Las Vegas included speakers from LG Ad Solutions, TripleLift, Cross Screen Media and more.
Programmatic I/O, New York
Date TBD
New York
AdExhanger’s Programmatic I/O conference invites industry professionals to explore the most recent trends around commerce media, connected TV, privacy and more in effort to help drive programmatic strategies. The most up-to-date iteration of the event in New York included speakers from Google, Forrester, OMD and more.
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