We got tired of how swag gets bought.
Slow quotes, mystery pricing, portals from 2009. So we built the company we wished existed — 11 years, 1,500+ brands, and 50+ countries later, we’re still fixing it.
Two million pilgrims. 187 countries. The view from the stage just before our founder met the Pope.
Photo: World Youth Day Krakow, 2016
Our first order was 3.2 million products. For the Pope.
ActivateSwag was founded in 2015 in a college apartment. Our first bid was for World Youth Day in Krakow — the largest recurring event hosted by the Catholic Church. We had no business winning it.
We won. We delivered it flawlessly.
Delivered on deadline to two million pilgrims from 187 countries. On stage in front of all of them, our founder, Patrick Lowenthal, handed Pope Francis a custom-designed pilgrim backpack — the first product ActivateSwag ever made.
Today, that’s still the standard.
Take the operational pain out of swag.
Sourcing, design, inventory, kitting, shipping, reorders — we run all of it so your team doesn't have to. Here's how we operate.
Customer first.
Every order matters like the first. Proactive updates, no surprise invoices, deadlines that don’t slip.
Quality excellence.
Every supplier vetted, every order inspected. Only what meets our standards ships with your name on it.
Innovation.
Spreadsheets shouldn’t run swag programs. The platform exists so yours doesn’t have to.
Global reach.
Sourced globally, fulfilled locally, managed from anywhere. A vetted network wherever you operate.
One place for procurement, brand, and people ops — instead of vendors, PDFs, and spreadsheets stitched together.
Operations you can see.
Service you can reach.
Our Miami fulfillment center handles receiving, kitting, and outbound shipping for thousands of orders a month. Our platform shows you exactly where each one is — in production, in transit, on the kitting floor, or out the door.
We run real operations, and when something needs to be handled, you talk to someone who knows your account by name. Not a chatbot. Not a ticket queue. A person.
Let’s make this easy.
500 kits or 500,000. Bulk inventory, custom items, or a nationwide deployment — we’ll run the platform, the warehouse, and the sourcing so your team doesn’t have to.
