Affiliate Summit East

Affiliate Summit East is the New York edition of Affiliate Summit, a series of affiliate and partnership marketing conferences owned by Clarion Events. The 2027 edition is scheduled for 26 and 27 July at the New York Marriott Marquis on Times Square. Its sister event, Affiliate Summit West, is held in Las Vegas, with its next edition in January 2027. The audience is broad rather than gambling-specific. The organiser groups it into four main types: affiliates and media buyers, content publishers, lead buyers, and advertisers and ecommerce sellers. Affiliate Summit cites more than 4,500 attendees, two days of meetings and over 50 speakers for the event. Affiliates and media buyers are not charged for entry. Content is split by audience. The official site describes a Content & Commerce Summit for publishers, with topics such as new ways to monetise content, reducing dependence on a single traffic source, the effect of AI-generated search results on SEO, and tracking and attribution. Lead generation has its own track, with topics including referral marketing, rules from the US Federal Communications Commission and paid social for lead buyers. The ecommerce material mentions AI tools, ad strategy and small-creator influencer programmes. Briefings on B2B partnerships, fraud and pay per call, plus workshops, are listed in the site's agenda section. The 2027 programme and speakers have not been announced. The speakers shown on the official site are people who appeared at earlier Summits, among them executives from Fintel Connect, HexClad, Forbes Media and WeightWatchers, so they should not be read as a confirmed line-up. For iGaming affiliates the relevance is indirect. Gambling is not one of the named content areas, and the past speakers and testimonials on the official site come mostly from retail, media and lead generation. The event is more useful for publishers who run mixed portfolios or want to add non-gambling revenue, and for networks and tracking vendors that sell across verticals.