Affiliate World Asia 2018 : A Remarkable Affiliate Marketing Conference

The billion-dollar affiliate marketing industry is growing rapidly and spreading its wings to cover almost the entire world by creating numerous offline meeting places for the world’s top digital marketers and e-commerce entrepreneurs. One such place is the Affiliate World Conferences, where learners and entrepreneurs from different parts of the globe get to come face to face with the leaders of the internet world.

This article is to give you all an insight into my experience from the recently concluded Affiliate World Asia event that was held in Bangkok last year.

AFFILIATE WORLD ASIA

Affiliate World Asia is a sub-event organized by the personnel from Stack That Money (STM) under the super-group of Affiliate World Conferences. A large scale event at present, the first event in Bangkok was held at a much smaller scale back in 2014.

The STM group decided to take things to a pro level and started the Affiliate Marketing Conferences soon after the STM London event in March 2015, with an objective do a couple of big events every year that brings together the entire affiliate nation together, which so far they have done great!

AWA 2018

The Affiliate World Asia 2018 was a full-fledged affiliate marketing conference that was held over a period of 4 days, in conjugation with 2 more breakthrough events from 4^th to 7^th December 2018 at Bangkok, Thailand. These events brought together leading names and influencers from various fields of the internet industry like affiliate marketing, digital marketing, e-commerce, CPM, social media marketing and more.

The 4 days event line up at Bangkok this time was as follows:

• SheCommerce (4^th December)
• AWAsia 2018 (5^th and 6^th December)
• E-commerce Mastery Live (ECML) (7^th December)

Venue & Arrangements

The event this year was organized on a grand scale at

Centara Grand and Bangkok Convention Centre

LEVEL 22, 999/99 RAMA 1 ROAD, PATHUMWAN, BANGKOK 10330, THAILAND

The previous event in 2107 was already a major success and we were expecting either the same or something bigger this year. Being organized in the same venue as last year, I initially felt pretty nostalgic once I reached the venue. That same vibe, hustle bustle and energy that makes you realize you made the right decision by booking your tickets for the event.

Centara Grand is a really plush venue for such an event and just as I had guessed, there were more than 1,000 attendees for the conference and the venue seemed completely jam-packed. Regardless of the bustling crowd, the volunteers and support crew kept their cool and were excellently supportive when it came to assistance and guidance.  t was clean and hygienic. The availability of refreshments made it even better.

Centara Grand hosted AWA Bangkok for the second year in a row, posting the previous event in 2017. The venue offers great connectivity. From both major airports of Bangkok and is connected to major shopping and entertainment complexes by skywalk. It also offers easy access to the mass transit systems, thus enabling you to travel to Sukhumvit from either of Bangkok’s international airports.

• The venue is approximately a 45-min drive from Suvarnabhumi International Airport (BKK) with the option of catching a taxi, bus or the Airport Rail Link.
• The venue is also approximately a 30-min drive from Don Mueang International Airport (DMK) with the option of catching a taxi or a bus.

Sponsors are the backbones of each and any kind of commercial event that takes place anywhere anytime. The conferences of AWA have always backed up by the most popular and leading agencies and organizations in the world of affiliate marketing, digital marketing, CPM and more.

AWA Bangkok 2018 was sponsored by more than 10 major sponsors who were categorized into 3 major tiers. Here is a quick list of all the sponsors involved

DIAMOND SPONSORS

• Adplexity
• Mobvista
• forum

GOLD SPONSORS

• More Niche
• Tab
• UDroppy

SILVER SPONSORS

• Access Trade
• Has Traffic
• Team
• MobiVisits
• Vene
• What The Aff
• Yakkyo FY

Events & Hot topics

The 2018 edition of Affiliate World Asia in Bangkok had a vibrant two-day market on 5^th and 6^th December, which was preceded by the SheCommerce event on 4^th December and the ECML event on 7^th December. All the attendees and delegates at the event got the opportunity to explore the companies and organizations from different fields of the internet industry and meet global influencers face-to-face.

The market days worked as the de facto social hub of the conference where over a hundred companies were represented. Industry leaders and influencers were catching up, making deals, and forging connections in all this hustle and bustle of the market. Each day of the conference offers hour-long mixers for the sole purpose of building your network.

DAY 1

The first day featured mainly of the Speeches and market tables where most of the attending speakers talked about building things or growing their businesses and their methods and strategies to make it happen. The experts made sure that the speeches were great for motivation regardless of your level and what you’re looking to achieve.

DAY 2

Day 2 began. The MobVista guys arranged with several speaker panels who shared numerous valuable insights about different things like dominating Facebook to mobile strategies and growing your business to 8 figure revenues and much more. As mentioned earlier, Day 2 ended with the networking drinks and AWA after-party, cocktail lounge and buffet, exclusively sponsored by the Diamond sponsors.

DAY 3 - E-COMMERCE MASTERY LIVE

The final day focused on the Ecommerce Mastery Live. This was a whole day workshop for e-commerce personnel and entrepreneur to learn the exact tools, tactics and leading-edge, directly applicable training to build high growth, sustainable businesses, and brands.

Networking and after-party

A nice series of networking events followed right after the formal kind of speeches and presentations. All of us celebrated the end of the show with an after-party and beer session sponsored by the diamond sponsors. Just like the last year after party, all the attendees received a marketing kit with notebooks, pens and other stuff. This also included a Hangover kit from the Mpire network guys, just in case the attendees got too drunk to wake up.

Renowned speakers

Just like a repeat of the Affiliate World Asia, 2017, the 2018 edition of AWA Bangkok brought together some of the most reputed influencers and experts from the Affiliate Marketing sphere and other competitive fields in the internet industry for a period of 4 days from various corners of the world under one roof.

Industry leaders and influencers came together to share their secrets and presented new insights, data-driven knowledge and innovative ideas on affiliate marketing. Knowledge and experience in the air when this list of speakers took the stage:

• DANILO LEE

CEO, DLO Media

• FRANK RAVANELLI

Head of Affiliates, FOREO Asia & EMEA

• RALFS SMILŠARĀJS

Media Director, Mobnx

• DEE DENG

Head of Growth, Right Hook Digital

• AYAT SHUKAIRY

Co-founder, Invesp

• DIMITRI NIKOLAKAKIS

CMO, Ape Athletics

• CLOÉ DANA

Co-founder & Marketing Director, Dreamin (Also speaking at ECML)

• DEEPESH MANDALIA

CEO, SMC, and ZASR Digital

• HOLLY CARDEW

Founder, Pixc

• MAOR BENAIM

CEO, The Wolf Marketing

• KATIE CIZMARIKOVA

Founder, Velvette, Fitz, & Monroe

• ZACK FRANKLIN

CEO, AMZKungfu

• LIXIA QIAN

Founder & CEO, A-team (Also speaking at ECML)

• TIM BURD

Co-founder, Agency Y

• SASHA TAN

Founder & CEO, Favful

• MIKE LONG

Co-founder, OMG Machines

• MICHELLE JAKOBS

Facebook Ads Specialist, SpreadByte

• XENON TAN

Founder & CEO, FameUp

• RIEKO UESAKI

Business Development Manager, Shopify

• KEVIN DAVID

Founder & CEO, THATLifestyleNinja

• TRACY ATIEH

COO, Mediaburn

• MAI WILLIN

Senior Partner Relations Manager, DFO Global Performance Commerce

• JOHN RAIH

Managing Director, Jerry Media by F*ckJerry

• MIRELLA CRESPI

Founder & CEO, PixelHaus Media

And many more!

Exhibitors from various industries

EXHIBITORS

• Active Revenue
• Ad Center
• Ad Cash
• Ad Combo
• Ad Hooah
• Ad Acts
• Ad Moustache
• AdNow
• Ad Peria
• Clickbooth
• Adsterra
• Ad Supply
• Advidi
• AdXMaster
• Asia
• AffiMobiz
• Affisec
• AppCoach
• AppLeads
• AppLift
• APPROMOTERS
• ArmorAds
• Audience Serve
• AVA Trade
• Avazu
• Belive
• Big Bang Ads
• Bitter Strawberry
• BaseBone
• Bathmate
• Biggico
• BingMob
• BoomMob
• Cake
• Click2Commission
• ClickAdu
• ClickDealer
• ClickMob
• CollectCent
• Convert Media
• Creative Clicks
• Crypto
• De Hoon & Partners
• Direct Affiliate
• Discipline Digital
• E Hawk
• EverAd
• ExoClick
• Fluent
• For IT
• Fraud Score
• Friend Finder
• Gad Mobe
• Galaksion
• com
• Global echeck
• Go-rilla
• Golden Goose
• Gotzha
• Global Performance Marketing
• Sumai
• Hope Mobi
• Hunt Mobi
• Has Traffic
• HYPERCENTAGE
• IAC Applications
• iAidvert
• iStack Training
• Kingfin Affiliate Program
• Leadbit

SheCommerce

The modern era is gradually developing the ethics and mentality to let women compete with men and get an equal opportunity to conquer the world in every possible field today. Be it sports, education, politics or business. Keeping this in mind, SheCommerce was created to connect and inspire the next generation of women to build and grow e-commerce empires.

The 2018 edition of this event was organized a day prior to the AWA event on 4^th December 2018. I was fortunate enough to attend the event and witness all the leading ladies, some of the most successful women from various fields of the internet industry teaching next-level, actionable marketing tactics you can utilize whether you want to start a business, are an established entrepreneur, or you simply want to be inspired and motivated.

What we got to learn at SheCommerce?

One really amazing thing about SheCommerce was that AWAsia attendees got 50% off tickets.

• Where to find highly profitable e-commerce offers?
• How to set up highly profitable e-commerce offers?
• Earn $60/day through Facebook ads strategies to get to 7-figures
• Conversion optimization hacks for higher customer LTV
• How to source directly from China and the future of dropshipping
• How to make your store stand out with Social media, customer service & brand strategies?
• What it takes to build a lean and high performing team and the secrets of successful Outsourcing and hiring.

Speakers

SheCommerce 2018 brought together some of the brightest and most awe-inspiring women in e-commerce.

• MAI WILLIN

Senior Partner Relations Manager, DFO Global Performance Commerce

• MIRELLA CRESPI

Founder & CEO, PixelHaus Media

• RIEKO UESAKI

Business Development Manager, Shopify

• TRACY ATIEH

COO, Mediaburn

• MICHELLE JAKOBS

Facebook Ads Specialist, SpreadByte

• LIXIA QIAN

Founder & CEO, A-team

• SASHA TAN

Founder & CEO, Favful

• CLOÉ DANA

Co-founder & Marketing Director, Dreamin

• HOLLY CARDEW

Founder, Pixc

• KATIE CIZMARIKOVA

Founder, Velvette, Fitz, & Monroe

Follow on Social media!

With all the 3 events being such a major hit, you can catch all the action and memories from the events online on Twitter and Facebook.