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Events

Whether we’re hosting or sponsoring in-person gatherings or virtual events, Partnerize always has you covered with the industry’s most innovative happenings. Glean insights from past events or check out upcoming events we’re attending.

Upcoming events

eTail West

Palm Springs, CA
February 23, 2026

eTail West is a major retail and ecommerce conference focused on helping brands improve customer acquisition, retention, and omnichannel growth. The event emphasizes real-world retail strategies, data-driven marketing, and emerging technologies impacting ecommerce performance.

PMW Unlocked

London
March 3, 2026

The conference is designed for marketing professionals—especially CMOs, Heads of Growth, business leaders, and performance & paid-activity specialists—who want to sharpen their skills and strategy in the digital/marketing performance space.

It attracts over 1,500 attendees from brands, agencies and tech platforms.
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The agenda covers major themes shaping the future of performance marketing:

  • The evolving evolution of AI on marketing.
  • Measuring marketing/connecting it to business outcomes.
  • Evolution of channel mix in a “keywordless/clickless” future.
  • Where creativity meets algorithmic decision-making.
  • The interplay of brand building and performance marketing.
  • Omnichannel selling, partnerships, skills for the future.
  • The event includes six stages covering a broad spectrum: creativity & brand; retail; performance media, and more.

It features keynote speakers and industry leaders, e.g., senior representatives from Amazon, Paramount, Monzo, and FootLocker, to name only a few.

Shoptalk Spring

Las Vegas, NV
March 24, 2026

Shoptalk Spring is one of the largest retail innovation conferences, bringing together retailers, brands, technology companies, and investors to explore the future of commerce, consumer behavior, and digital transformation.

Affilifest

Margate
June 3, 2026

Affilifest is a festival-style conference for the UK affiliate and partnership marketing community. Rather than a traditional, stuffy business event, it’s designed to blend high-value meetings, industry insight, and fun — all in a lively seaside theme park environment.

Partnership Day 2026 London

Convene, 155 Bishopsgate, Liverpool Street, London
July 1, 2026

Mark your calendars — 1st July 2026 — because this year, we’re going bigger and better than ever! 

Join us for an unforgettable day of connection, collaboration, and celebration, featuring:

  • A bigger venue to welcome our growing community
  • More stages packed with industry-driven content
  • Partnership Day 2026 is coming!
  • Interactive roundtables for deeper discussions
  • A dedicated VIP room for exclusive networking
  • A relaxation zone to unwind and recharge
  • Our Industry Award Evening honouring partnership excellence
  • Networking cocktail drinks to close the day in style

Don’t miss the partnership event of the year — where innovation meets inspiration!

Marketing, Content & Commerce (MARCC)

New York City, NY
July 27, 2026

MARCC is a curated event focused on the intersection of media, publishing, commerce, and performance-driven content. The conference explores how publishers, brands, and platforms collaborate to drive revenue through content-led commerce strategies.

Affiliate Summit East

New York City, NY
July 27, 2026

Affiliate Summit East is the East Coast counterpart to Affiliate Summit West, bringing together the affiliate and partnership marketing community for education, networking, and business development in a more focused New York setting.

eTail East

Boston, MA
August 10, 2026

eTail East is a retail and ecommerce strategy conference focused on helping brands improve customer acquisition, loyalty, and digital transformation initiatives across multiple channels.

Past events

PI Live 2021

London, England
October 19, 2021

As the world’s premier affiliate & performance marketing conference, the industry meets to debate and discuss the challenges, opportunities and direction of our ever-evolving channel.

Through a combination of targeted speeches, carefully selected exhibitors, and exceptional networking opportunities. You’ll have the opportunity to soak up knowledge and ideas from peers and share in the future opportunities that unfold for your business.

With affiliate marketing business models continually evolving, you could be the next $4bn performance marketing success story.

Shoptalk Fall Meetup

Virtual
October 19, 2021

A fun, productive way to connect online with the retail community through meetings and interactive small-group content. Shoptalk Fall Meetup lets you engage with the people you know and meet the people you don’t—in a friendly and open environment. Fall Meetup includes 3,500+ participants from the US and European retail communities.

Webinar: Organizing for successful partnership marketing in Q4 and beyond.

Virtual
October 13, 2021

When it comes to partnership marketing, there is nothing exclusive about which team or department owns the function — ranging from marketing, biz dev and PR. This webinar will outline what kind of cross-department collaboration is required for success and how to align on KPIs regardless of what team is driving the programs. The webinar will also look at:

  • Examples of successful partnership programs 
  • The evolving skill sets needed to drive partner  marketing
  • Next generation of marketing partnerships

eTail Connect Australia 2021

Virtual
October 13, 2021

eTail CONNECT Australia is an exclusive and invitation-only gathering that brings together founders, CEOs, CMOs, Heads of eCommerce, Digital Marketing leaders from Australia’s top retail companies for a face-to-face Summit to discuss winning strategies and solutions to key challenges.

Webinar: How to achieve the greatest ROI from partnership marketing.

Virtual
October 12, 2021

While affiliate marketing to drive direct and immediate sales might be the strategy that gets the most buzz, there are several other flavors of partnership marketing available to retailers today that can also drive customer loyalty, brand awareness and a higher customer lifetime value over the long haul. Many merchants are finding success using influencers, bloggers, social media, and other content partners in tandem with affiliate marketing as a share of a well-rounded partnership marketing strategy. Join us on Oct. 12 for our webinar to learn the various methods of channel partnerships that retailers can employ to create a versatile channel partnership program that will drive the highest ROI as well as which partnership metrics marketers should be optimizing to in order to achieve profitable growth.

Attendees will learn tips from partnership automation, software and services leader Partnerize as well as industry experts on how to squeeze the most out of marketing partnerships, and will share tips on how to deploy an end-to-end partnership automation solution and the benefits such a software program can provide.

Any retailer looking to learn more about this thriving marketing strategy and make sure they aren’t leaving dollars on the table won’t want to miss this webinar!

eTail Connect US 2021

Virtual
October 12, 2021

For over 20 years, eTail has brought together retail innovators to hear inspirational tactical content paired with curated networking. eTail Connect is a private invitation-only virtual event customized for senior eCommerce & Digital Marketing leaders within Retail.

The mission of eTail Connect is to provide an interactive, high-level platform for the exchange of ideas, best practices and timely perspectives during these turbulent times.

Attendees receive access to all educational content (fireside chats, panels, keynotes and roundtables) delivered by other senior executives and get the opportunity to have pre-scheduled 1-to-1 meetings with solution providers who can help accelerate your digital transformation.

Webinar: The then, now and future of partnership marketing.

Virtual
October 6, 2021

Data couldn’t be any clearer: The opportunity that exists for partnership right now is unlike any other channel at any other time. Savvy marketers are willing and waiting for the perfect opportunity to optimize relationships with publisher partners. That time is now as partnership marketing hits its stride as a channel that offers so much more than transactional or last-click driven results and metrics. And it’s just getting started. Join Partnerize’s CMO, Maura Smith, and VP of Product, Mary Anzalone, as they take you through the channel’s addressable market, the capabilities of now and what lies ahead in the future of partnership technology.

Commerce Next IRL

New York City, New York
September 29, 2021

Scalable, profitable growth from content marketing requires updated strategies and tactics for managing the programs as well as content and influencer partners. Tune in at 12:15 PM EST on Wednesday, September 29th to see Partnerize’s own Erin Killian dive into the “how to’’ of content marketing by examining how retailers can effectively use publishers and influencers to optimize growth. Topics include:

• How to utilize the different types of content partners to your best advantage
• How to scale your content marketing
• The impact of increased data-privacy on reporting
• Best practices for working with content and influencer partners

Speakers:

• Emily Chan, Head of Affiliate Marketing, Our Place
• Natalie Brown, Head of Marketing, Sur La Table
• Alexis Caldwell, Head of Brand Development, rewardStyle
• Erin Killian, VP, Customer & Agency Services, Partnerize
• Moderated by: Allan Dick, Co-Founder, CommerceNext

PMA Fall Conference 2021

Virtual
September 28, 2021

Affiliate marketing education, outreach and networking. Unlike physical conferences where you can end up sitting through content you just don’t need, the PMA Fall Conference 2021 is delivered entirely online. Dip in and watch the specific talks you need to transform your business, or catch them all. It’s up to you!

Expanding your Partnerships with Affiliates

Virtual
September 14, 2021

The increase in e-commerce advertising is showing no signs of slowing down, with many retailers now firmly considering digital partners who can help drive online sales. Affiliate advertising grew by 10% in 2020 in what was the most challenging year for the digital advertising industry. Join the IAB to hear from industry experts on how to use new technologies and techniques to increase sales, gain a greater understanding of the importance of tracking in the channel and expand your affiliate campaign reach internationally.

Partnerize’s Charlie Calabrese is a Panelist for the Panel Discussion: The importance of tracking.