Post event 2015

RACE 2015 results: Fourth affiliate and marketing exhibition

Throughout two days, Moscow accepted representatives of the global affiliate market – Fourth international exhibition-congress Russian Affiliate Congress and Expo 2015.

Over its for-year history, RACE has become a massive event demonstrating the key affiliate trends, modern technologies and SEO optimization mechanisms on one floor.

RACE 2015 includes:

• professional conferences in two halls;
• exhibitionzone;
• awards ceremony for best industry representatives.

More than 40 specialists from Russia and overseas have become the speakers at the professional RACE 2015 conference, while more than 30 brands demonstrated their products and solutions in the exhibition area.

Over the course of two days, guests could attend 2 halls with such sections as:

• Affiliate-Trends 2015-2016 (moderator Alexey Terehov; speakers: Anton Glushkov, IlyaHatazhenkov, Ekaterina Shinkevich, Aleksandr Agapov, SergeyHitrov).
• Affiliate programas Forex and Binary Options (Aleksandr Melkumiants, Sergey Alexandrov, DmitriySIdorin, Tal ItshakRonand AviaArika, ValdAlehin, Frank Ravanelliwith an online presentation). 
• IDate and Adult (Elena Platonova, ValdimirShmidt, Maksim Hramov, Aleksandr Yakunchenkov, DmitriyKustov, Andy Woolmer, IlyaGorshkov, Aleksandr Kornilov).
• Affiliate programs on revenue markets (moderator Alexey Panshin; speakersVitalitKolosov, Nikita Gurovskiy, AlexandrDuzhnikov).  
• Gambling (DenisKonotop, Roman But, Tatiana Mihalchenko, Vitaliy Makarov).
• Mobile (Andrey Stain, VitalitVolchenko, Kirill Nakarov, Said Ismailov).

Tal Itshak Ron has become an unofficial headliner of the conference, making a presentation about the unconventional gambling segments, including the cost-efficiency of the special lottery services.

Section devoted to Bitcoin became a main event of the second day, gathering famous experts and experienced players of the Russian and European cryptocurrency markets. They exchanged experience and presented best solutions for working with Bitcoin and affiliate programs. Participants discussed such topics as choosing the cryptocurrency programs, where and how to earn on bitcoins, Bitcoin in gambling.

Guests discovered new technologic solutions in security, mobile, and learned about real cases of working with Bitcoin.

RACE Awards 2015. Recognizing the best

Official part of the event featured a summarizing and awarding of the best companies in affiliate marketing. Each winner in nine categories received a RACE Awards 2015 figurine, as the symbol of success and leadership.

The winners:
- Best forex broker on the affiliate programs market– AMARKETS;
- Best binary option on the affiliate programs market– 24OPTION;
- Best gambling affiliate program– BETCART;
- Best web service affiliate program– TRADTRACKER;
- Best media in affiliate programs– KMA.BIZ;
- Best innovation in affiliate marketing– CALLBACKHUNTER;
- Best affiliate program aggregator– MOBVISTA;
- Best lead generation agency– OPTIMISM.RU;
- Best affiliate manager– ADVERTSTAR.

Exhibition zone

RACE 2015 guests had a chance to attend an exhibition zone, where Mobvista, Wondersoft, LINKPROFIT, TradeTracker, ExoClick, BBET, MarketCall and many other companies demonstrated their products. All RACE 2015 participants could communicate with Internet marketing and affiliate programs gurus. Visitors learned how to decrease costs of product promotion and improve sales efficiency. Moreover, event guests found new business partners among the leading service providers, discovered monetization tools and technical peculiarities of traffic on the gambling and mobile apps market.

Smile-Expo, organizer of RACE 2015, thanks all participants, guests, sponsors and partners, who made it possible to create such massive event. Organizers would also like to express special thanks to SendPulse, CPAExchange, LPgenerator, RBK Games, Infobox, Adwad.ru, Jobmax.ru, Careerist.ru, GeneralExpo.ru, Edu-Affiliates.Com, Imhopartner, OneTwoTrip.

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