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I have spent the last twenty years in affiliate marketing and SEO, the last ten of those traveling to industry conferences across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Most of the partnerships, deals, and link opportunities that built MonetizeBetter came from rooms I walked into at conferences. I am writing this from Bucharest, between two events I have already booked, and a few months after CloudFest. The truth most affiliate marketers do not want to hear: the best deals happen face to face. Email pitches die in inboxes. Conference handshakes turn into six-figure partnerships. If you are serious about scaling an affiliate business, you need to attend two or three good events a year and actually work them. The list below covers the ten affiliate-specific conferences I rate highest in 2026, plus a section on adjacent industry events I attend that aren't strictly affiliate-focused but still deliver real affiliate-marketing ROI. Several of these are events where MonetizeBetter is a media partner, which means I have direct access to organizers, exhibitors, and post-event data—and that shows up in the depth of each entry. TL;DR — The 10 Conferences, Ranked TES Affiliate Conference (Prague, Seville) — Best for learning and networking in the EU Affiliate World Conferences (Dubai, Budapest, Bangkok) — Best for global performance marketing and e-commerce AWSummit (Bucharest, Ibiza) — Best for multi-vertical networking and side events PI LIVE (London, Miami) — Best for content affiliates and brand partnerships MAC Affiliate Conference (Yerevan) — Best for networking with CIS markets iGB Live (London) — Best for iGaming and betting affiliates Affiliate Summit East & West (NYC, Las Vegas) — Best for the US affiliate market Click Summit India (New Delhi) — Best for entering the Indian and South Asian market Affiliate Expo (Milan) — Best for the Italian and Southern European market Affiliate Takeover (Barcelona) — Best for white-hat media buyers and DTC operators Vote in the poll attached to this topic, and tell me in the replies which event actually paid you back. How to Pick the Right Affiliate Conference for You Most affiliate marketers attend the wrong conferences for the wrong reasons. They go to the loudest event of the year, get overwhelmed, talk to nobody useful, and come home with a stack of branded swag. Three rules I follow when picking which two or three conferences to attend per year: Match the geography to your market If you sell into the US, Affiliate Summit East and West matter more than TES. If your traffic is from CIS countries, MAC Yerevan beats Affiliate World Bangkok. The conference that will pay you back is the one where your buyers and partners actually go. Match the vertical to your stack iGB Live is the right room if you are in iGaming. PI LIVE is the right room if you do content-led brand partnerships. Going to the wrong vertical event is worse than not going at all. Treat the side events as the main event Contracts are signed at dinners, not on the expo floor. The best operators I know spend more time on networking and side events than on talks. Quick Comparison: 10 Affiliate Marketing Conferences in 2026 Conference Region / City Vertical Focus Best For Scale TES Affiliate Conference Prague, Seville Adult, dating, gambling, nutra, e-commerce EU networking Mid-size Affiliate World Dubai, Budapest, Bangkok Performance marketing, e-commerce Global scale, top operators Large AWSummit Bucharest, Ibiza Multi-vertical (nutra, dating, iGaming, crypto) Side events & mastermind format Mid-size PI LIVE London, Miami Content affiliate, influencer, brand partnerships White-hat content affiliates Mid-size MAC Affiliate Conference Yerevan Nutra, gambling, dating, traffic networks CIS markets Mid-size iGB Live London iGaming, sportsbook, casino iGaming affiliates Large Affiliate Summit East & West New York, Las Vegas Multi-vertical, US-focused US affiliate market Large Click Summit India New Delhi Performance, fintech, e-commerce, gaming South Asian market entry Large Affiliate Expo Milan Affiliate, dropshipping, COD, e-commerce Italian and Southern European market Mid-size Affiliate Takeover Barcelona DTC, paid traffic, TikTok Shop, AI creative White-hat media buyers Mid-size 1. TES Affiliate Conference (Prague, Seville) Best for learning and networking in the EU — Media Partner TES Affiliate Conferences was founded in 2009 and has stayed remarkably consistent in what it does well: bring together professionals from online entertainment, e-commerce, finance, gaming, gambling, dating, forex, health, and nutraceuticals for an intensive three-day networking event. The spring edition runs in Seville, the autumn edition in Prague. TES Affiliate Conference Prague. I have attended TES Prague multiple times. It is one of the strongest events in Europe for the adult, cam, dating, and gambling verticals, with a denser concentration of decision-makers per square meter than most larger conferences. The Prague edition in particular has a community feel that newer events struggle to replicate. Dates are typically announced 4–6 months out, so check the official site for the current schedule. As media partners of TES Affiliate Conferences, here is our review of TES Affiliate Conference Prague 2024, and our review of TES Affiliate Conference Cascais. Companies with a profile in our community that you can meet through TES exhibitors: Traffee, Onclicka, AddxAd Ad Network, BongaCash, iMonetizeIt, AdsEmpire, ClickDealer, FlirtCash, and others. Stay updated: tesaffiliateconferences.com · Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · X · TikTok 2. Affiliate World Conferences (Dubai, Budapest, Bangkok) Best for global performance marketing and e-commerce — Media Partner Affiliate World runs three editions per year. Dubai opens the calendar in February (the largest of the three by attendance), Budapest follows in early September, and Bangkok closes the year in December. The brand has built a reputation as the place where the world's top performance marketers and e-commerce operators show up. Affiliate World Conferences — Dubai, Budapest, Bangkok. What sets Affiliate World apart from most other events is its operator density. The people walking the floor are running real businesses, not testing their first campaigns. The talks tend to be sharper, the side dinners more selective, and the deals made between rooms larger than at most regional events. If you can only afford one conference outside your home region, I would pick Affiliate World Dubai. The combination of vertical breadth, operator quality, and Dubai's role as a meeting point for European, Middle Eastern, and Asian affiliate marketers makes it uniquely valuable. As official media partners of Affiliate World Conferences, our reviews are: Affiliate World Dubai and Affiliate World Bangkok. Companies with a profile in our community that you can meet through exhibitors: MaxWeb, Leadbit, MostBet, iMonetizeIt, ProxyEmpire, ClickDealer, and others. Stay updated: affiliateworldconferences.com · Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · X · TikTok 3. AWSummit (Bucharest, Ibiza) Best for multi-vertical networking and side events — Media Partner AWSummit Bucharest and Ibiza. AWSummit is a multi-vertical hub that runs keynotes, workshops, masterminds, expos, and networking across affiliate marketing, nutra, e-commerce, lead-gen, dating, iGaming, and crypto. Founded in 2014, the brand has built one of the strongest side-event ecosystems in the European affiliate calendar, with its Affiliate White Sensation parties running alongside Affiliate World Dubai, Budapest, Rome, and Bangkok. I am based in Romania and have attended every Bucharest edition. The combination of strong central European representation, well-curated mastermind formats, and the spillover side dinners and afterparties makes it one of the more practically useful events on my calendar. The Ibiza edition is more focused on the side-event experience and high-touch networking — different format, different audience. The Bucharest edition typically lands in the same early-September window each year. Watch their channels for confirmed dates. As official media partners of AWSummit, here is our presentation and review of the AW Summit Bucharest. Stay updated: awsummit.com · Facebook · Instagram · YouTube · X · Telegram 4. PI LIVE (London, Miami) Best for content affiliates and brand partnerships PI LIVE Affiliate Conferences. PI LIVE is the global conference for performance marketing, affiliate partnerships, and influencer collaborations. It is the home event for content-driven affiliate businesses — sites built around SEO, editorial integrity, and long-term brand partnerships rather than paid-traffic arbitrage. The London edition runs every October. The Miami edition runs each spring. If you run a content-led affiliate site monetized through major networks (Awin, CJ, Partnerize, Rakuten, Impact, Optimize Media), PI LIVE is the room where their senior partnership teams are. The format leans editorial-first, with strong educational sessions, a working expo floor, private meeting spaces, and structured networking formats like speed networking and roundtables. I have not attended PI LIVE in person, but multiple operators in my network rate it highly for the brand-side relationships it fosters. If your business model depends on direct partnerships with large advertisers rather than network-mediated traffic, this is the one to add. Networks and brands you can meet through PI LIVE exhibitors: Awin, CJ, Partnerize, Rakuten Advertising, Impact.com, Optimize Media. Stay updated: performancein.live · Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · X 5. MAC Affiliate Conference (Yerevan) Best for networking with CIS markets — Media Partner MAC Yerevan Affiliate Conference. MAC is the largest CIS-focused affiliate conference, with attendees from over 50 countries, more than 4,000 participants, 150 companies, and 20+ scheduled talks. It runs annually in Yerevan, Armenia, typically in the spring. If you operate in Russian-speaking markets or do business with traffic networks, nutra, gambling, or dating advertisers based in Eastern Europe, MAC is non-negotiable. The networks that show up here often do not exhibit at the western-facing events on this list. As official media partners of MAC, here is our review and presentation of the Yerevan edition. Companies with a profile in our community that you can meet through MAC exhibitors: EVADAV, ChiliPartners, LGaming, Leadbit, MostBet, Webvork, Los Pollos, Traffee, Onclicka, and others. Stay updated: affiliateconf.com · Facebook · Instagram · Telegram 6. iGB Live (London) Best for iGaming and betting affiliates iGB Live (formerly iGB Affiliate London) is one of the world's largest dedicated iGaming affiliate conferences. The event focuses on affiliates working in online casinos, sportsbooks, poker, bingo, and eSports. It brings together thousands of affiliates, operators, affiliate programs, and marketing-technology providers from around the globe. iGB Live iGaming Conference. If you are in iGaming, you already know about iGB Live. If you are not in iGaming and you want to be, iGB Live is the place to start. The combination of exhibition floor density, content tracks tailored to compliance and acquisition strategy, and dedicated networking events makes it the highest-leverage single event in the iGaming affiliate calendar. SiGMA (covered in the adjacent events section below) is the closest comparable event, with stronger emphasis on operator-side relationships. Stay updated: igblive.com · Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · X · YouTube 7. Affiliate Summit East & West (NYC, Las Vegas) Best for the US affiliate market Affiliate Summit East and West. Affiliate Summit is the longest-running affiliate marketing event series in the US. Two annual events anchor it: Affiliate Summit East. Held annually in New York City in July. The smaller of the two, with around 3,500 attendees and a stronger focus on East Coast brands, networks, and content publishers. Affiliate Summit West. Held annually in Las Vegas in January. The largest affiliate marketing event in the world by attendance, with 6,500+ attendees and a strong concentration of US-based merchants, technology providers, and tier-one networks. If your business is US-focused — meaning your traffic, your advertisers, or your audience are primarily American — these two events are the highest-priority on your calendar. The European and Asian events on this list will not connect you to the US merchant teams you need to do direct deals. Stay updated: affiliatesummit.com · Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · X · YouTube 8. Click Summit India (New Delhi) Best for entering the Indian and South Asian market Click Summit India (formerly India Affiliate Summit) is Asia's biggest performance, programmatic, and affiliate marketing event outside Affiliate World Asia. It runs annually in New Delhi and brings together networks, advertisers, publishers, and solution providers from across the Indian subcontinent. Click Summit Performance Marketing Conference India. The 2025 edition ran on August 20–21 at Andaz Delhi with 70+ exhibitors, 500+ brands, and over 5,000 attendees. The event has strong representation from global performance, programmatic, and affiliate programs, plus dedicated insights into fast-growing Indian verticals: fintech, e-commerce, travel, and gaming. India is one of the most undervalued affiliate marketing opportunities right now. The combination of population scale, fast-growing digital infrastructure, and rising consumer purchasing power makes it a market that most Western affiliate marketers underweight. Click Summit is the entry point. Companies you can meet through Click Summit exhibitors: Admitad, Optimize Media, Tyroo, Shoogloo, vCommission. Stay updated: clicksummit.in · Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn 9. Affiliate Expo (Milan) Best for the Italian and Southern European market — Previous Media Partner Affiliate Expo Conference, Milan. Affiliate Expo is Italy's premier event for affiliate marketing, dropshipping, and COD (cash on delivery) campaigns. Founded in 2018 by TrafficManager and AI20, it has grown from a national Italian conference into a more international event held annually in Milan, typically in early summer. If your audience or buyers are concentrated in Italy or Southern Europe, this is the one regional event where network operators, agencies, and DTC brands serving those markets gather in one room. The COD focus is particularly relevant if you operate in the nutra or e-commerce verticals, where COD remains a meaningful conversion driver. Stay updated: affiliatexpo.it · Facebook · Instagram · TikTok · X · Telegram 10. Affiliate Takeover (Barcelona) Best for white-hat media buyers and DTC operators Affiliate Takeover Barcelona. Affiliate Takeover (ATO) is a newer entrant to the European affiliate calendar, held at Fira de Barcelona. The 2025 edition ran on July 9–10. Its positioning is sharp: a white-hat affiliate marketing conference built by marketers for marketers, focused on DTC scaling, TikTok Shop arbitrage, AI creative workflows, and clean media buying. Around 1,500 media buyers, affiliates, advertisers, networks, and traffic platforms attended the 2025 edition, with content tracks focused on practical, repeatable, compliance-friendly tactics. ATO is still establishing itself, but the early signal is positive, particularly for affiliates focused on paid traffic, DTC, and TikTok Shop scaling. I have not attended yet, but several operators in my network rate it among the best new conferences of the last two years. Stay updated: affiliatetakeover.com · Facebook · Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn Adjacent Industry Events That Pay Back for Affiliate Marketers The 10 events above are the best dedicated affiliate marketing conferences in the world. But some of the most valuable conferences I attend each year are not strictly affiliate events. They are adjacent industry conferences where affiliate marketers, advertisers, hosting providers, domain investors, and platform operators converge. The crossover is where some of my best deals get done. If you treat affiliate marketing as one of several digital asset plays, these are worth your calendar: SiGMA Group events (Malta, Dubai, Rome, São Paulo, Manila). The largest iGaming network in the world, with stronger operator-side and licensing emphasis than iGB Live. If you do anything in iGaming or sportsbook affiliate marketing, you should attend at least one SiGMA event per year. CloudFest (Europa-Park, Germany). The world's largest cloud and hosting conference, every March. I attend as a delegate. The crossover among the WordPress, agency, and SaaS affiliate categories is significant — most major hosting affiliate programs have senior partnership teams there. Our CloudFest review covers what to expect. Domain Days Dubai. Annual event focused on domain investing, brokerage, and digital asset trading. Smaller and more specialized than the affiliate-only events, but the operators here are running serious portfolios. Useful if you treat your sites as assets that could be exited. Domain Summit (London / various). Sister event to Domain Days, with strong UK and European representation. Same pattern: domain investors, brokers, and SaaS founders adjacent to the affiliate world. WordCamp Europe and WordCamp US. The annual flagship WordPress events. If your affiliate site runs on WordPress (most do), the partnership and plugin ecosystem at WordCamp can produce surprisingly relevant relationships. The hosting, theme, plugin, and managed WP affiliate programs are all heavily represented. I attend most of these every year. The pattern is consistent: operators who treat affiliate marketing as part of a broader digital asset strategy outperform those who only show up at affiliate-only events. How to Get Real Value Out of an Affiliate Marketing Conference Most attendees waste up to 70% of their conference time. Here is the playbook I use after a decade of attending these events: Plan your meetings before you arrive. The expo floor is for chance encounters. The 1:1 meetings you book in advance are where the real ROI lives. Aim for 8–12 confirmed meetings per conference day, scheduled through the official meeting platform when available, or via direct LinkedIn outreach 2–3 weeks in advance. Attend at most 30% of the talks. Most talks are introductory, and you will get more from the speaker by talking to them after their session. The exception: highly specific tactical talks from operators who do not normally publish. Those are worth front-row seats. Treat side events as the main event. Dinners, parties, sponsor afterparties, and unofficial late-night gatherings are where the contracts get drafted. The official program generates leads. The side events close the deals. Have a one-line answer to "what do you do?" Most attendees give a 90-second meandering pitch and lose the room. Yours should be 10 words and create curiosity, not provide a complete answer. Follow up within 72 hours. The conference momentum is already cooling by Tuesday after a Sunday close. A short, specific email with a clear next step beats every other tactic. Pick your two trip priorities. One deal you want to close. One relationship you want to build. Everything else is a bonus. Affiliate Marketing Conferences FAQ Which is the best affiliate marketing conference to attend in 2026? It depends on where your buyers are. For European affiliate marketers and global operators, Affiliate World Dubai (February) is the highest-leverage single event. For US-focused businesses, Affiliate Summit West (January, Las Vegas) is the top priority. For iGaming and gambling affiliates, iGB Live and SiGMA. For content-led affiliates focused on direct brand deals, PI LIVE London. The right answer is whichever event puts you in the same room as the people who can pay you. How much does it cost to attend an affiliate marketing conference? A realistic budget for a major international affiliate conference: $400–$1,500 for the conference pass, $1,500–$3,000 for flights and hotel (depending on origin and city), $300–$500 for side events and meals. Expect $2,500–$5,000 total per major conference, including travel, lodging, and side-event tickets. VIP and networking-focused passes can cost $2,000–$5,000 for the pass alone. How many affiliate marketing conferences should I attend per year? Two to three is the sweet spot for most operators. One regional event close to your market for relationship maintenance, plus one or two larger international events for new partnerships and market access. Attending more than four per year usually means you are spending more time at conferences than building your business. Attending zero means you are missing out on partnerships that compound over the years. Are affiliate marketing conferences worth the cost? Yes, if you go with a plan and follow up afterward. The deals, partnerships, and link-building opportunities that come out of conferences typically pay back the cost 5–20× in the first year. Random attendance with no preparation rarely pays back. The investment is in the system around the conference, not the conference ticket itself. Which affiliate conferences focus on iGaming and gambling? iGB Live in London is the largest dedicated iGaming affiliate event. SiGMA Group runs the largest network of iGaming-focused conferences globally (Malta, Dubai, Rome, São Paulo, Manila). MAC Yerevan covers iGaming alongside other CIS-friendly verticals. TES Affiliate Conferences also have meaningful iGaming representation. For betting affiliates specifically, iGB Live and SiGMA are non-negotiable. Are there free affiliate marketing conferences worth attending? Free conference passes are rare and usually limited to first-day expo access. The best free alternatives are the regional WordCamps (free or pay-what-you-can) and many free affiliate meetups organized by networks like Awin, CJ, and Impact in major cities. These are smaller but can produce genuinely useful relationships. The headline conferences listed here almost always require paid passes for full access. Which affiliate conference is best for beginners? TES Affiliate Conference Prague and Affiliate Summit East are both more beginner-friendly than Affiliate World, which assumes operator-level sophistication. Beginners are usually better served by attending one larger event to see the industry breadth, then specializing in vertical-specific events (iGB Live, MAC, Click Summit India) once they know which niche they want to grow in. Going to the wrong vertical event before you have committed to a niche is a common, expensive mistake. What's the difference between TES, Affiliate World, and Affiliate Summit? TES Affiliate Conference is European-focused, mid-sized, and strong in adult, dating, gambling, and nutra verticals. Affiliate World is global and operator-dense, with the highest concentration of advanced performance marketers and e-commerce operators. Affiliate Summit is US-focused and the largest by attendance, with a stronger emphasis on networks, technology providers, and US merchant relationships. Choose based on geography and operator sophistication level. Key Takeaways Match conference to market. US business goes to Affiliate Summit. EU goes to TES. Global goes to Affiliate World. iGaming goes to iGB or SiGMA. Wrong room equals wasted budget. Two to three conferences per year is the sweet spot — one regional, one or two international. The side events are the main event — plan to be in the room after dinner, not just during the talks. Adjacent events compound. CloudFest, SiGMA, Domain Days, Domain Summit, and WordCamp produce affiliate ROI that most operators miss. Plan, attend, follow up. The conference itself is the smallest part of the system. Conclusion The right affiliate conference can change your year. The wrong one will cost you a week and a few thousand dollars. Pick deliberately, prepare seriously, and treat every conference as a system: book meetings in advance, add side events to your calendar, and set a follow-up plan in your CRM before you board the flight home. Most affiliate marketers never attend a single conference and complain that the industry is closed. The industry is not closed. The deals happen in rooms most operators never enter. Walk into the right room twice a year, work it properly, and watch your business compound quickly. Over to you: vote in the poll for the conference that produced the most ROI for you, and drop your own picks in the replies. If you are attending an event that is not on this list and deserves to be, tell us what makes it worth the trip. No self-promotion.