Recommended Affiliate Marketing Conferences To Attend in 2026 [Ranked by Affiliates]

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 in May 2026, three months after CloudFest, between two upcoming events I have already booked.

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 the adjacent industry events I attend that are not 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 is reflected in the depth of each entry.

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.

Below is a quick comparison of the 10 conferences before I get into each one in detail.

Quick Comparison: 10 Affiliate Marketing Conferences in 2026

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.

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.

The next confirmed editions: TES Seville in spring 2026 and TES Prague in autumn 2026. Check the official site for the exact dates, as they are typically announced 4–6 months out.

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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.

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 in 2026, 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.

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AWSummit (Bucharest, Ibiza)

Best for multi-vertical networking and side events [Media Partner]

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 2025 Bucharest edition ran in early September. The next Bucharest edition typically lands in the same window each year. Watch their channels for confirmed dates.

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PI LIVE (London, Miami)

Best for content affiliates and brand partnerships

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.

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MAC Affiliate Conference (Yerevan)

Best for networking with CIS markets [Media Partner]

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. The 2025 edition was the strongest I have attended in the CIS calendar to date, and the next edition is expected around May 2026.

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.

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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.

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 (which I cover in the adjacent events section below) is the closest comparable event, with stronger emphasis on operator-side relationships.

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Affiliate Summit East & West (NYC, Las Vegas)

Best for the US affiliate market

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.

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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.

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 in 2026. 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.

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Affiliate Expo (Milan)

Best for the Italian and Southern European market [Previous Media Partner]

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.

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Affiliate Takeover (Barcelona)

Best for white-hat media buyers and DTC operators

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, with a focus 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 aimed at practical, repeatable, and 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.

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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.

I attend most of these every year. The pattern is consistent: the operators who treat affiliate marketing as part of a broader digital asset strategy outperform the ones who only show up at affiliate-only events.

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Key Takeaways

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: meetings booked in advance, side events on the calendar, 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 how quickly your business compounds.

If you want to extend your conference strategy with broader digital asset moves — domain investing, hosting deals, agency partnerships — our work at MonetizeBetter through our advisory branch covers exactly that. If you want to talk through which two events fit your business this year, drop a comment below.