Holiday shopping season doesn’t wait for a perfect plan — and this year, it’s starting earlier than ever.

Join us on Monday, August 24 at 1pm Eastern for The Q4 Playbook: What Smart Partners Are Watching for Holiday 2026, a free, one-hour live discussion on what’s actually shifting heading into the busiest quarter of the year.

Why register?

Peak demand compresses timelines, intensifies competition, and exposes weak spots fast, revealing which strategies actually hold up under pressure. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the sharpest test of that: the days when a strategy either converts or it doesn’t, with zero room to course-correct in real time.

That’s exactly what this session is built around.

This conversation brings together three people who navigate that pressure directly:

  • David Kender, Business Lead, Reviewed
  • Sean Ryan, Co-Founder, Rotary Digital
  • Lena Grotticelli, Vice President, TAG24 NEWS US

Moderated by Stack’s manager of publisher development, Tarra Tresham, the panel will unpack what’s important heading into Q4 this year.

Topics include AI-driven discovery, shifting distribution channels, changing publisher and partner dynamics, and holiday-season placement strategy, along with what it all signals for how commerce teams should be thinking about this quarter.

There’s a live audience Q&A built in too. Got a question for the panel? Submit it in advance, or bring it live on the day.

If you work in affiliate marketing, digital publishing, commerce strategy, brand partnerships, or performance marketing, this session will give you a grounded look at where things stand heading into the most important season and where to go from here. You won’t want to miss the concrete takeaways from the panel that you can put to use right away.

Register for The Q4 Playbook — it’s free, it’s only an hour, and it’s built for anyone who’d rather get ahead of Q4 than scramble through it.