Agenda

Skip the crowds and pick up your badge and attendee bag when you check-in early for CJU.

Head to the CJU Business Center for all your office needs, including computers, printer, and supplies.

Media placements, such as Publisher newsletter or home page exposure, can be an important part of an Advertiser’s affiliate strategy. In this special 45-minute intensive training, attendees will learn how to plan, execute and evaluate the success of a media placement strategy, and how to apply this new knowledge to their networking meetings with Publishers at CJU. Discovery Lab Training

This central location for meetings returns to CJU19 and is open throughout the four-day event. With over 1000 attendees, The Zone makes it easy to find a time and place for meetings that fit everyone's schedule.

In affiliate marketing, the recruitment of new, quality Publishers, and nurturing those relationships, is critical to long-term growth – over a five-year period recruited publishers generate 60% of a program’s revenue. This training shares three tried and tested ways to achieve diversification now so your program can reap the benefits later.

Get back to the basics and ensure you're doing everything you can to build, optimize, and maintain your CJ program. This training offers the most important daily, weekly and monthly tasks for Advertisers that result in a healthy and robust affiliate program.

On the sixth anniversary of its launch, come learn about CJ’s award-winning Content Certified Network. Join George Yuhba for a look into what the network delivers to both Advertiser and Publishers. George will give attendees a peek into the network’s performance, how content certification has impacted its members and tips for evaluating whether becoming Content Certified makes sense for your program.

Every time a customer makes a purchase through an affiliate link, several steps occur before Publisher payment occurs for that transaction. This training addresses possibly the most frequently asked question in affiliate, namely “When will I get paid?” Advertisers and Publishers who attend this training will better understand when earned commissions are paid.

First-time attendees to the industry’s best networking event don’t have to go it alone! We’ve gathered the essential facts you’ll want to know about CJU19 events, the insider’s guide to the venue, and our best tips for making your CJU a networking success. This session is led by CJU’s event director, Suzanne Purcell, so you’re sure to walk away with the insider’s view of CJU19. New Attendees: be sure to attend the New to CJU Happy Hour held directly after this session and located at the the Hilton Santa Barbara’s patio-side bar, The Set.

First-time CJU attendees (and veterans!) are invited to this awesome event at The Set bar at the Hilton Santa Barbara.

Enjoy a hearty breakfast in the Plaza del Sol before a full day of networking and learning.

Pick up your badge and attendee bag when you check-in for CJU.

Sponsored tables, lounges, and patios will be open for private meetings as scheduled in the CJ Universe.

Head to the CJU Business Center for all your office needs, including computers, printer, and supplies.

CJ Affiliate's new President, Mayur Kshetramade will take the stage at CJU19 for his first keynote. More to come on this exciting announcement.

As the co-captain of the 2015 Women’s World Cup Champion Team, soccer icon, Abby Wambach created a culture that helped transform a group of individual women into one of the most successful, powerful, and united wolfpacks of all time. Abby will translate her champion mindset and team-bound focus from the arena to the CJU19 keynote stage; bringing her remarkable wisdom as a leader to empower us all to take on challenges and overcome obstacles while channeling the mentality of the Wolfpack.

Pick up your badge and attendee bag when you check-in for CJU. Once registration is over, this desk will remain open for any general event questions.

This central location for meetings returns to CJU19 and is open throughout the four-day event. With over 1000 event attendees, The Zone makes it easy to find a time and place for meetings that fit everyone's schedule.

Growth starts with the right partners. The Global Expo is the place to meet the Publishers, Advertisers, and partners that are driving affiliate growth—both in new global markets and the US.

Refuel from a packed morning by enjoying lunch in a beautiful setting.

CJ Affiliate's Insights platform provides an on-demand, actionable view into the performance of your affiliate program. This training shows how Insights makes it easier for you to identify program trends and which publishers, creative and offers are driving the trends.   Attend this training to learn how to use Insights’ visual graphs, filters, expandable data to drill into a program’s data.

CJU’s second day heats up with a session where attendees take the lead. This session kicks off with brief statements from each of the panelists and then we turn the mic over to the audience to pose questions, explore strategies, or dig into best practices with our diverse group of influencers. Once the dialogue gets started, who knows what questions and idea-sparking answers will come up? Join this session for a better understanding of how to work with influencers and take away an appreciation of our panelists’ ability to think on their feet!

Every time a customer makes a purchase through an affiliate link, several steps occur before Publisher payment occurs for that transaction. This training addresses possibly the most frequently asked question in affiliate, namely “When will I get paid?” Advertisers and Publishers who attend this training will better understand when earned commissions are paid.

In affiliate marketing, the recruitment of new, quality Publishers, and nurturing those relationships, is critical to long-term growth – over a five-year period recruited publishers generate 60% of a program’s revenue. This training shares three tried and tested ways to achieve diversification now so your program can reap the benefits later.

Building a healthy long-term affiliate program is something we all want to do, but end up instead prioritizing short-term revenue at the expense of long-term gain. Taking a customer-centric view can change this, and this training will show you how. This training is chock-full of tips and tricks fresh from the account management trenches.

Media placements, such as Publisher newsletter or home page exposure, can be an important part of an Advertiser’s affiliate strategy. In this special 45-minute intensive training, attendees will learn how to plan, execute and evaluate the success of a media placement strategy, and how to apply this new knowledge to their networking meetings with Publishers at CJU.

This central location for meetings returns to CJU19 and is open throughout the four-day event. With over 1000 attendees, The Zone makes it easy to find a time and place for meetings that fit everyone's schedule.

Disruption in ecommerce is here to stay, so looking deep into what drives consumer buying now, and in the future, will help marketers develop strategies that resonate. Our speaker will present three important megatrends shaping the affiliate channel today and what you should do about it during the upcoming holiday season. Filled with examples of how the trends are playing out in affiliate, attendees of this session will gain an understanding of the competitive plays they can make to respond to evolving customer expectations, plus a check list of how to apply them to holiday planning and beyond.

This training shares what Network Quality team protects against and the team’s best tips for what program managers can do on their own to proactively monitor and mitigate risk. Come learn how CJ’s Network Quality team monitors compliance day-in and day-out, 24-hours a day so that Advertisers and Publishers can stay focused on building relationships rather than addressing compliance issues.

CJ’s newest performance dashboard within CJ’s Insights reporting helps you dive deep into a program’s data. This live demo shows how to: use dimensional attributions to create comparative performance views; create visualizations for hourly, daily and monthly trends and how to use many other customizable features.

Black Friday is just one of many shopping events to achieve global prominence. Publishers and Advertisers both have a lot to gain when they align their promotional calendars to include global shopping events that are popular with shoppers in the US and beyond. This training shares how these shopping events impact the affiliate channel and can be a opportunity in the year ahead.

One of the major advantages of the affiliate channel is its agility. Many brands launch their products or service in new markets, or go global from the start, via affiliate in order to launch fast and iterate as they go, learning from both their successes and setbacks. This session gathers a seasoned group of marketers, spanning many sectors and global regions, who have answered the siren call of global expansion and lived to tell the tale. This panel will offer both the Advertiser and Publisher perspective on the topic of achieving growth and reaching shoppers in new global markets.

Learn how you can best position the affiliate channel so that the decision makers in your organization really understand its opportunity and value. Delivered by a member of CJ’s Corporate Development team with first-hand knowledge of what works (and what doesn’t), this training will share tips on how to set affiliate up for success and towards greater, long-term investment.

Hosted on the beach, enjoy drinks, small bites, and local entertainment as you watch the beautiful Santa Barbara sunset at everyone's favorite CJU event.

Mix and mingle while enjoying various local wine and beer in one location. Shuttles will begin departing from Hilton Santa Barbara @ 8:45 pm. Shuttles are also available to and from the Hyatt, Santa Barbara Inn, Best Western, and Harbor View Inn.

Start your day off with our gentle morning yoga class sure to energize your mind and body. Space is limited.

Enjoy a hearty breakfast in the Plaza del Sol before a full day of networking and learning.

Sponsored tables, lounges, and patios will be open for private meetings as scheduled in the CJ Universe.

This area offers a quiet place to catch up on emails, update your event schedule, and conduct any other necessary business matters.

Pick up your badge and attendee bag when you check-in for CJU. Once registration is over, this desk will remain open for any general event questions.

This central location for meetings returns to CJU19 and is open throughout the four-day event. With over 1000 attendees, The Zone makes it easy to find a time and place for meetings that fit everyone's schedule.

Not long ago, measuring the incrementality of digital sales was more theoretical than practical. Requiring complicated A/B testing, or the risky step of pausing advertising and investment, incrementality has befuddled marketers for decades. In this session CJ shows how its powerful state-of-the-art audience insights can create a highly accurate view of customer behaviors when they engage with affiliate sites, versus when they don’t, to achieve an expression of affiliate’s incrementality. This session will debut CJ’s latest findings on affiliate channel incrementality and cover how to share these findings when making the case for a greater share of your company’s digital marketing budget.

When and where shoppers interact with Publishers while on their path to purchase is more knowable than ever before. In this session, we share compelling findings from CJ’s own deep dive into shopper interactions with Publisher sites and dispel some common, long-held myths along the way. Our speakers will show how brands can assess their own affiliate relationships based on common customer path scenarios, and how to develop more efficient and profitable programs when customer journeys are considered.

CJ’s newest performance dashboard within CJ’s Insights reporting helps you dive deep into a program’s data. This live demo shows how to: use dimensional attributions to create comparative performance views; create visualizations for hourly, daily and monthly trends and how to use many other customizable features.

Think digital privacy began and ended with GDPR? Think again! California and other US states are exploring their own privacy legislation. Plus, Apple and Google both have announced further updates impacting browser-based cookie tracking. If you’re wondering, “Where is all this headed?” you’re not alone. Our speakers, both of whom play critical roles in CJ’s response to digital privacy updates, will show how these requirements impact our industry and what’s at risk. Attendees will come away with a clear idea of how to rally and survive in the new reality of a constantly changing privacy landscape.

There's a lot of buzz around big media sites entering the channel, a.k.a content commerce Publishers. They offer massive audiences, critical reach into social channels and many unique marketing opportunities. But with anything new, there are always a lot of questions. Namely, how to best tackle this new opportunity? In this session, our panel addresses the buzz around content commerce and shares how brands can best tap their unique selling opportunities, or how to know when there isn’t a fit. We’ll share examples of what’s working, and how, so Advertisers can assess if content commerce can help meet their affiliate goals.

CJ Affiliate's Insights platform provides an on-demand, actionable view into the performance of your affiliate program. This training shows how Insights makes it easier for you to identify program trends and which publishers, creative and offers are driving the trends.   Attend this training to learn how to use Insights’ visual graphs, filters, expandable data to drill into a program’s data.

Refuel from a packed morning by enjoying lunch in a beautiful setting.

Staying on top of new technologies shaping ecommerce is essential. In one of our most popular session formats, we've invited three publishers with innovative business models in play now to present their unique selling points, showing how they extend affiliate’s reach into new audiences via shopping tools or apps. This session shares a fresh perspective on how technology is meeting and anticipating customer needs while also fueling new ways to engage with shoppers. Through a lightning round question and answer segment, Advertiser attendees will learn how these exciting businesses could be a fit for their program and goals.

CJ’s new Customer Insights reporting allow Advertisers to answer business questions about their new, lapsed, and return customer segments in real-time and on-demand within the CJ platform. Come learn how Advertisers, using their own customer segment definitions and how to can gain access to this reporting.

Learn how you can best position the affiliate channel so that the decision makers in your organization really understand its opportunity and value. Delivered by a member of CJ’s Corporate Development team with first-hand knowledge of what works (and what doesn’t), this training will share tips on how to set affiliate up for success and towards greater, long-term investment.

This new event offers a unique opportunity to have open-ended discussions, ask questions, share best practices, and learn from your peers in the affiliate business. Registration to participate closes on August 1, 2019. You will receive an email to sign up for this event after you register for CJU19.

Building a healthy long-term affiliate program is something we all want to do, but end up instead prioritizing short-term revenue at the expense of long-term gain. Taking a customer-centric view can change this, and this training will show you how. This training is chock-full of tips and tricks fresh from the account management trenches.

If you’re new to working with influencers or want to sharpen your know-how on what works best, come learn how to establish and foster successful influencer relationships from a CJ content expert.

Wednesday evening's Cocktail Hour & ½ will jump-start your evening of networking and fun. Enjoy a signature cocktail and kick of the evening with your fellow marketers on the front lawn of the host hotel.

Join us under the stars at the CJU Awards Dinner. Raise your glass and enjoy the excitement as we recognize Advertisers, Publishers, and Agencies chosen for their outstanding network performance.

Enjoy a night of high-stakes fun at the CJU Casino tables adjacent to the After Party. You could be the big winner!

You won't want to miss this year's After Party where you can unwind, toast a drink or two with newly made connections, and cut loose on the dance floor.

Stop by for a late-night bite from one of our street food vendors alongside the After Party.