The growth has been significant ever since! Each conference, we host more affiliates and companies than at the previous one with record attendance reaching 6200+ attendees in Dubai, earlier this year.

We put a lot of focus on the content as well! Starting with just a bunch of presentations in Bangkok 2015, we now bring in 35+ speakers, delivering insightful presentations on 2 stages across the 2 conference days. Our main stage sets the industry standard, with 600-700 attendees watching the speeches during prime time.

The number of exhibitors and company reps who attend our events is constantly growing too. AWA Bangkok 2015 started with a limited number of booths and a tiny marketplace which looked nothing like our current setup. This year in Dubai, we have had 210+ exhibitors doing business with clients at their booths and 1000+ additional company representatives attending the conference.”

We understand you are hosting the event in Budapest, can you explain why you’ve chosen such a diverse city?

“We will be hosting an event in Budapest for the first time ever and we are all excited about this change. A new city always brings new challenges, new opportunities and we are totally looking forward to this.

Due to the size of our event, it’s not easy to find a venue that meets all our needs and requirements. Since the one we have been using in Barcelona for years is going through a renovation, we had to look for a replacement.

We also felt it was about time to freshen things up and expose our attendees to a new location, providing them with the opportunity to experience something new. We all know that affiliates are not coming to conferences just for the business, right? Traveling to a new location and spending some quality time there is just as important.

Budapest turned out to be one of the few European cities with the required infrastructure and expo venue large enough to host both Affiliate World Conference and also Sigma Europe, which takes place in the same venue and in the same week.”

In terms of locations – does each one attract a different audience?

“Most definitely. The main difference is the GEO breakdown of our attendees. While in Budapest, a large part of the attendees will be from European countries, you can expect a much higher % of Asian visitors at our Bangkok show. And Dubai naturally brings in more business people from the Arabic regions. The mix always remains very diverse nonetheless, the affiliate crowd simply loves to travel.

Same goes for verticals! Our Europe event will definitely host more exhibitors and affiliates who are active in the dating/casual verticals, which wouldn’t be possible, due to legal regulations, in Dubai, for example. Following the same principle, as the world financial hub, Dubai is the home of companies providing financial services, so you can expect to meet many financial professionals at our Dubai event.”

Can you describe the different verticals that attend your events and the advantages that Affiliate World have over other similar events?

“Our main advantage over other events is the scale of things. We have a little bit of everything, so to speak. Affiliate World Conferences are not about one vertical, we cover all of them and dynamically adjust to the current trends in the business.

Another aspect where we stand out, I believe, is the education we provide for our attendees. All the speakers who present on our stages are carefully selected by our speakers team. To put it simply, we do not have presentations just because it’s the norm, we genuinely care about providing our attendees with information they can actually utilize to grow their business. And for the first time ever, in Budapest, we will have a workshop for affiliate managers as we feel this part of our business can really benefit from such an activity.

Let’s not forget about the side events. Due to the size of our conference and the amount of people who travel to the select cities during the events, many companies or teams use this as an opportunity to hold their own events for affiliates. These can be exclusive yacht trips for 50-75 private guests, smaller workshops or masterminds or even large-scale parties that can host 1000+ attendees. This year in Dubai there have been roughly 35 side events organized within 4 days… it’s hard to get bored 🙂

Our aim is to become the one conference you cannot miss. In other words, if a company or attendee only has the budget to visit one conference throughout the year, we work hard on being the one they choose.”

As an attendee what kind of companies and individuals am I likely to meet at the next AW event in Budapest?

“We always aim to cover the most important verticals and niches within the affiliate industry, both in terms of offers and traffic opportunities. Meta, Google and TikTok are always in high demand and a significant part of our speeches and networking events will be related to these. For example, we will have Google and TikTok workshops with actual representatives from these companies taking place directly at the conference venue.

Verticalized networking sessions or tracks are scheduled to happen in our various networking zones, these will cover Native, iGaming, Meta, TikTok, Google… there will be panels covering verticals such as Dating, iGaming, Arbitrage and other hottest topics in affiliate marketing.”