Industry events
The conferences, summits, and webinars affiliate marketers, native-ads buyers, and media buyers actually attend. Filter by month, region, or type. Always confirm the date on the official site before booking.
Recurring — schedule published monthly on native-hub.io
Online
Free monthly webinars run by Xevio's Native Hub team. Topics cycle through Outbrain / Taboola / MGID optimization, creative testing frameworks, and post-click landing-page strategy. The replay archive is the highest-density free resource for Tier-1 native buyers.
Recurring — MGID hosts side-events at major affiliate conferences
Multiple
MGID-hosted side events at AWE, ASW, iGB London, and TES. Closed-door dinners + open mixer. The fastest way to onboard with MGID's Tier-1 EU traffic team if you're a new advertiser.
Date TBA — INTERACT runs annually, US-based
Multiple, USA
PartnerCentric's invitational affiliate-innovation summit. Brand-side affiliate managers, partnership-program operators. Smaller invitational format — useful if you run an in-house program.
Date TBA — typically early June in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Shoptalk's EU edition. ~3,000 retail and e-com leaders. The EU answer to Shoptalk Vegas, with stronger DACH and UK retailer presence.
Date TBA — typically June in Miami
Miami, USA
PerformanceIN's North American edition. Smaller than ASW but more partnership / SaaS affiliate flavored. Good for content publishers and brand partnership teams.
Date TBA — typically June, hybrid online + Seattle
Seattle, USA
Search marketing's longest-running event. Heavy on technical SEO + paid search. Useful if your traffic comes from Google or Bing rather than native.
Date TBA — typically third week of June
Cannes, France
The advertising industry's flagship week. Brand-side. Performance marketers attend mostly to meet C-level platform contacts (Meta, Google, TikTok host major beach activations). Almost zero affiliate / native presence — useful only if you're selling into agencies or platforms.
Date TBA — typically late July or early August in NYC
New York, USA
ASW's east-coast sibling. Smaller and more publisher-heavy than ASW, with strong content / SaaS affiliate representation and decent Tier-1 US advertisers. Good for first-time affiliates building US relationships.
Date TBA — typically mid-August in Boston
Boston, USA
eTail's east-coast edition. Same audience as eTail West, smaller scale. Strong fintech-adjacent retail and apparel representation.
Date TBA — typically August or September in New Delhi
New Delhi, India
India's largest ad-tech / marketing event. Strong DSP and programmatic representation, plus a growing performance / affiliate track. Useful if you sell into Indian advertisers or run Tier-3 traffic from APAC.
Date TBA — typically late February or September in Dubai
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Affiliate World's MENA edition. Strong representation from MENA payment / banking advertisers, crypto, and Tier-2 e-com. Smaller than Bangkok or Barcelona but the easiest place to meet GCC advertisers face-to-face.
Date TBA — typically September; venues rotate Prague / Lisbon
Prague, Czech Republic
Adult + dating + crypto + iGaming affiliate conference. Big private parties, smaller networking floor, where 'iGaming Tier-2' deals get done. Less corporate, more old-school affiliate.
Date TBA — annual, typically September; venues rotate
Multiple
Practitioner-led affiliate / partnership festival. Less corporate than ASW or PI Live, more workshop-driven. Good for first-time affiliate managers building a playbook.
Date TBA — typically September in Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
Practitioner-heavy growth event in Frankfurt. Excellent CRO + lifecycle-marketing content, real case-study talks rather than vendor decks. Smaller (~600 attendees), high signal.
Date TBA — typically late September in Cologne
Cologne, Germany
Europe's biggest ad-tech and digital-marketing trade show. 40,000+ attendees, every DSP / SSP / MMP has a stand. Less affiliate, more brand + agency + ad-ops. Worth it if you want to see the EU ad-tech vendor map in one room.
Date TBA — Outbrain typically runs partner days in NYC + London Q4
Multiple
Invite-led Outbrain customer days (NYC + London + occasional Tel Aviv). Account managers walk through new placements, supply additions, AI-creative tooling, and case studies from top advertisers. Closed-door, useful for advertisers spending $25k+/mo on Outbrain.
Date TBA — typically October in London
London, UK
London's main app-marketing day. ASO, paid UA, retention, MMP attribution. Practitioner-heavy (Spotify, Wise, Bumble, Revolut) rather than vendor pitch deck.
Date TBA — typically April + October in Brighton
Brighton, UK
The world's largest dedicated SEO conference. ~5,000 attendees, 100+ speakers. Free training day, paid main day. Strong content + technical SEO mix.
Date TBA — typically October in London
London, UK
PerformanceIN's London flagship. The UK affiliate scene's main annual event — networks (Awin, Rakuten, Impact), sub-affiliate platforms, brand partnership teams. Heavier on retail / fintech affiliate than nutra-style media buying.
Date TBA — annual virtual conference, typically October
Online
Online-only conference run by the Geometry team. 100+ speakers, format optimized for the YouTube replay long-tail. Cheap ticket relative to AWE/ASW. Strong creative + media-buying tracks.
Date TBA — typically October in NYC
New York, USA
AdExchanger's programmatic conference. Where the open-web RTB ecosystem (DSPs, SSPs, identity graphs, CTV, retail-media) talks shop. Less affiliate, more programmatic media-buying.
Date TBA — Affiliate Insider runs multiple summits per year (UK + virtual)
London, UK
Lee-Ann Johnstone's Affiliate Insider summit. Practitioner-led — affiliate managers, brand partnership leads, and consultants. Quality of speakers > size of room. Focused on retail, SaaS, and partnership-program affiliate.
Date TBA — Taboola typically holds publisher-side readers summit in Q4
New York, USA
Taboola's invitational summit. Mostly publisher-side (CNN, USA Today, NBC, Bloomberg) but advertiser sessions cover the largest spenders' creative and bidding playbooks. Useful if you spend on Taboola at scale.
Date TBA — typically November in Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
PerformanceIN's regional EU event. Smaller than PI Live London. Strong Benelux + DACH affiliate manager attendance.
Date TBA — annual, typically Q4 (virtual + in-person)
Online
Influencer + content-creator marketing summit. Smaller and creator-flavored. Useful if your media-buying overlaps with creator partnerships or whitelisted creator ads.
Date TBA — typically mid-November in Malta
Malta
Malta's iGaming summit. ~25,000 attendees, heavy on iGaming licensing, payments, and affiliate networks. Tier-1 European iGaming relationships start here.
Date TBA — afflift hosts community meetups around major conferences
Medellín, Colombia
afflift forum community meetups in LATAM hubs. Smaller (50–150 people) but the easiest place to meet the LATAM Tier-2 / Tier-3 native + push buyers in person.
Recurring — STM hosts side-events at every major affiliate conference
Bangkok, Thailand
STM Forum is the largest paid private community for affiliate media buyers. They host invite-only meetups around every major affiliate conference — Bangkok, Barcelona, Vegas. Free to attend if you're an STM member; the easiest way to meet senior media buyers in person.
Dec 9–10, 2026
Bangkok, Thailand
The biggest pure affiliate event in APAC. Performance marketers, e-commerce-on-Facebook operators, sweepstakes / nutra / dating buyers fly in for two days of networking plus a full week of side events around BITEC. Expect 5,000+ attendees, 200+ exhibitors, and most of the major networks running booths.
Date TBA — typically first full week of January in Las Vegas
Las Vegas, USA
The Consumer Electronics Show. Not a marketing event per se, but the C-Space / ad-tech track has grown. Useful for CTV / streaming-ad buyers and CTV-DSP vendor meetings.
Date TBA — typically late January or early February in Las Vegas
Las Vegas, USA
The longest-running US affiliate marketing event. 5,000+ networks, advertisers, and tools across every vertical. Lower-key than Affiliate World but the room where most US affiliate relationships start. Held alongside CES week traffic in Vegas.
Date TBA — Vegas meetup runs alongside ASW
Las Vegas, USA
STM Forum's Vegas side-event during ASW week. Members-only. Highest concentration of US-based media buyers in one room.
Date TBA — typically late February in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
The most media-buyer-flavored affiliate conference in Europe. Heavy on dating, nutra, sweeps, crypto, and Tier-1 native arbitrage. Networks fly in, advertisers run booths, and side-events run all week across Barcelona. This is where most EU affiliate relationships start.
Date TBA — typically early February alongside ICE Gaming
London, UK
iGaming-focused affiliate event. Sportsbook + casino brands, big SEO publishers, Tier-1 EU regulators. Co-located with ICE Gaming the same week — most attendees do both.
Date TBA — typically late February in Palm Springs
Palm Springs, USA
The senior-side e-commerce conference. CMOs and VPs of Growth from US DTC brands. Useful if you sell to brands or want to land enterprise affiliate partnerships.
Date TBA — Barcelona meetup runs the night before AWE day 1
Barcelona, Spain
STM Forum's Barcelona side-event during AWE week. Members-only. The biggest single concentration of senior media buyers in Europe across one evening.
Date TBA — typically mid-March in Las Vegas
Las Vegas, USA
Retail + e-commerce mega-conference. ~10,000 attendees. Strong DTC + creator-economy track. Where Shopify, Klaviyo, Attentive, and the major e-com tools announce features.
Date TBA — typically March in Munich
Munich, Germany
Europe's leading SEO + SEA conference, German-language with English track. Strong technical SEO content, smaller and higher-signal than DMEXCO.
Date TBA — typically mid-April in Las Vegas
Las Vegas, USA
Premier conference for mobile-app user acquisition. Apple Search Ads, Google UAC, MMPs, attribution. The room where AppsFlyer, Adjust, Branch, Singular publish breakout numbers. Heavy on subscription apps + gaming UA.
Date TBA — typically early May in Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
Germany's biggest digital-marketing event. ~70,000 attendees, ad-tech + creator + B2B SaaS mix. Half-conference, half-festival, the EU equivalent of SXSW for marketing.
Date TBA — ad:tech London cadence varies; check official site
London, UK
ad:tech's UK edition. Programmatic, identity, and the brand-side ad-tech narrative. Less affiliate-friendly than PI Live but useful if you sell ad-tech tools.
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