StatsDrone Partners with NEXT.io for 1 Day Affiliate Conference

NEXT.io and StatsDrone are teaming up to create a unique 1 day affiliate marketing event in iGaming. The event is called NEXT Focus: Affiliate

and takes place May 25th, 2026 at The Phoenicia just outside of Valletta in Malta.

The event takes place 2 days before the NEXT Summit Valletta happens which is the flagship event from NEXT.io.

If you are keen to join this event, use code STATSDRONE10 for this event or the Valletta summit too.

Affiliate Conference Topics in iGaming

There will be many discussions on topics in affiliate marketing for iGaming. Here are the topics that you’ll learn about at this unique one day event:

• Link building

• Content strategies

• VIP

• Shaving detection

We’ll have great speakers like Jabez Reuben from The Kraken discussing how link building and listicles are more important today in AI overviews.

Emma-Elizabeth Byrne, Director of Publishing at Gentoo, she will share her insights on what affiliates need to do differently for content planning and strategies.

The VIP section features Gali Hartuv from WarriorLab on helping affiliates understand VIP players better and how their site impacts and influences them.

Shaving detection for affiliates

This is a topic I get asked about at every conference and it is something NEXT wanted me to bring to a keynote.

Shaving is something that everyone talks about but nobody writes about and in order to change the industry, we need to have those open discussions first. It seems that for every affiliate I help to analyze their data, I find at least one program that I’ve found to be shaving.

If you want to learn how we do it and how we are using NousViz as part of the analytics platform for detecting, then this keynote is for you!