Transform your creator future, learn top growth strategies for 2027
Experience three days with big creators, see how they build and monetize their audiences, market themselves, and put AI to work—in Anaheim, California, next to Disneyland.
Join thousands of creators and marketers at the 14th annual Social Media Marketing World®, from April 1-3, 2027. Brought to you by Social Media Examiner.
Meet the creators behind billions of views
Derral Eves
Adley Kinsman
Sean Cannell
Maria Wendt
Roberto Blake
Brock JohnsonGreat content is only half the job
Maybe you create around a full-time job. Maybe your content already pays some bills and could do far more.
Either way, the hard part comes after you post: growing an engaged audience, avoiding burnout, and making money that doesn’t hinge on the algorithm or brand deals.
The biggest creators sell their own products and services. That takes marketing, the skill most creators were never taught, and exactly what you’ll learn here.
“I attended Social Media Marketing World to figure out how I should market my personal brand… I made some incredibly valuable connections and finally mapped out a clear structure and strategy to move forward,” said attendee Piret Ilver.
Meet the marketers looking for creators
Picture yourself mingling with marketers who want to work with creators like you. 55% of our 2026 attendees said they want to do more with influencers. No creator conference puts you in a room like this.
Table talks connect creators with each other and with the marketers who hire them, so the right conversations are easy to start.
“I’ve already made some good connections with brands, businesses, and creators that I want to facilitate even more,” said Shaun McBride, creator and past speaker.
What you’ll learn
You’ll discover how to build a business fueled by your content. Sessions focus on:
✅ Growing your audience: Build an audience that actually engages. Master long-form and short-form video from creators who’ve grown massive followings, in the Creator Track.
✅ Monetizing your following: Go beyond brand deals. Learn how to market yourself and sell your own products, courses, and services, in the Social Marketing Track.
✅ Refining your craft: Make videos people actually watch, with techniques from creators who’ve earned billions of views.
✅ Putting AI to work: Plan, create, and repurpose videos in a fraction of the time. AI Business World runs two full days inside the event, included at no additional cost with your ticket.
“I had such a difficult time choosing which session to go to, whether it was AI, LinkedIn, how to improve your content, YouTube, how to make money on your YouTube channel. I mean, tons of stuff. Practical, tactical theory, whatever you’re missing, this is a place to find it,” said attendee Maggie Carey.
Learn from big creators who’ve done it
We personally recruit creators who’ve built what you want to build, and no one sells from the stage. In the Creator Track, here’s a sample of who you’ll learn from:
✅ Derral Eves has advised MrBeast and Airrack, helped drive more than 110 billion views, and wrote the bestseller The YouTube Formula.
✅ Adley Kinsman has 1.3 million+ Instagram followers, and her channels average more than a billion views a month.
✅ Sean Cannell built Think Media to more than 3.5 million YouTube subscribers and wrote the best-selling YouTube Secrets.
✅ Maria Wendt has more than a million Instagram followers and has sold over $24 million in digital products.
✅ Roberto Blake has 640,000+ YouTube subscribers and wrote Create Something Awesome.
“These are some of the smartest people in the world because they’re actual practitioners. We have people here who have built tremendous brands, six, seven, eight, nine figure businesses,” said creator Roberto Blake.
You’ll also hear from creators like Brock Johnson (nearly 1 million Instagram followers), Keenya Kelly (500,000+ TikTok followers), and Lucas O’Keefe (400,000+ Instagram followers).
And they don’t disappear after their sessions. Thirty-minute breaks, meetups, and table talks give you real time to talk with them, even if you’re an introvert.
SEE THE 2027 SPEAKERS AND SESSIONS
“Though I’m an introvert… I ended up leaving the event with two speaking offers and making a mentor out of a YouTube icon that I’ve been following for nearly a decade. Never thought I’d meet the man, but we nearly bumped into one another and now it feels like I’ve known him for years,” said attendee Jessica Uttinger.
Why this event is your best choice
✅ Depth you won’t find anywhere else. A dedicated creator track, plus social marketing and AI, where practitioners show you the exact tactics, tools, and workflows they’re using right now.
✅ Run by marketers, not an events company. Brought to you by Social Media Examiner, so you learn marketing from people who do it every day.
✅ Pitch-free, no panels. No one sells from the stage. Just creators who’ve built massive audiences, showing you how they turned them into a real business.
✅ Put it to work right away. Every session is built to be actionable, so you’ll start seeing results before you even get home.
✅ Built for how you work. Practitioners on your platforms, with your kind of budget, whether you’re full time or building on the side.
✅ A community that gets you. Meetups, table talks by topic, and thirty-minute breaks make connecting easy, even if you’re an introvert.
“Whatever the trends are, you learn them here so you can stay sharp, you can make sure that your business stays relevant and increases profits,” said creator and speaker Sean Cannell.
The Creator Track is included with General Access, All-Access, and Virtual tickets. Prefer to learn from home? Virtual tickets include live streaming and recordings of every session.
Why attendees love this event
“I found my tribe… The people who speak my language and understand my challenges,” said Shelley Rostlund.
“The people that you meet here are an impeccable resource. Everyone is here to help you out,” said George Suero.
“It picked me back up again and lit my creativity on fire and carried through almost a year later,” said Crystal Richard.
“It’s hands-on, how-to, one-on-one conversation with experts, kind of conference. You walk away ACTUALLY knowing how to do things better,” said Judie Gaines.
“I have absolutely found what I needed here. Every single session I attended I’ve been able to take away probably three things, minimum, that I am going to be able to immediately implement,” said Jules McGuire.
“I can say—with huge excitement—that I not only got a plan, but found valuable information, and connections that could only happen here,” said Alita Fernandez.
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