Digital Marketing meetups in Málaga

Maybe you have just arrived to Málaga and are looking to engage with the locals , or you’re a seasoned digital marketing professional who wants to connect with like-minded industry buddies while improving your English skills. In both cases, you’re in the wrong place. Noooo, it’s the right place, I was just kidding.

A small group of technology and marketing folks started Digital Marketing Malaga in January 2017 within the well-known mobile app Meetup. The idea was simple: if you were involved in anything related to web, SEO, digital marketing , and were tired of the old-style traditional marketing events, you could hang out in our meetups to learn, share and mingle with other professionals.

English or Spanish, or both?

Initially, meetups were in English and Spanish, to try and make them as inclusive as possible. But in the end, the organizing comitee (we) thought that English was a better language for this because, anyway, Spanish people need to improve their English skills (if you’ve been in Málaga for a few hours, you know that).

So we chose a format to include interesting topics to hear from a professional (being salesy is strictly prohibited) and a networking slot to meet new people and talk about that awesome project you’re working on. Bingo.

Outside of Meetup

From there, and now outside of the Meetup environment, Digital Marketing Málaga has grown to an absolute waggering 600 member community. Not bad for a mid-size city like Málaga, don’t you think? This website became the hub to connect people from many countries, continents and religions, with a connecting topic between them: digital marketing.

Althought we resisted initially, a WhatsApp group became place to interact and be up to date about all things DMM. About 240 active members are in the group. Well, maybe not all of them are active. But when there are conversations, they’re usually good.

Our monthly-ish events

A website, WhatsApp group are nice tools for digital marketers, but you know what? we like to go offline from time to time. And so we kept organizing these in-person events (with a short break during the pandemic), usually once a month, but somethimes more or less, so monthly-ish is how we like to define it.

Nothing replaces the emotions of an in-person event: getting to know hundreds of attendees and speakers, all of them with interesting things to share. The conversations about digital marketing sometime evolve into restaurant recommendations, the coolest place in town to grab a drink, or why you shouldn’t stay in Málaga centre during Semana Santa (holy week).

What to do now

If you’ve managed to reach this point without falling asleep, I think we’re in good shape for a call to action. If you haven’t registered yet, please do it. It’s free although there are also options if you’re feeling generous today.

From the registry page and after accepting our “Please spam me” policy, you’ll find a link to our WhasApp group, if you want to join. We’ll quickly review your details and accept you in (we don’t like bots). From there, you can share a short intro for the community so we can stalk look at your LinkedIn profile and connect. And it’s very likely that a new meetup will be in the oven, so in a few days you’ll be able to meet other members in person and share a few drinks while speakeing about clicks and URLs.

See you soon!

The Digital Marketing Málaga organizers.