ActivateSwag
For HR, Marketing & Ops Teams

Swag people actually want.

We design, produce, and ship corporate swag for 1,500+ HR, marketing, and ops teams — with free mockups and a dedicated account manager on every account.

11 yrs
In business
1,500+
Brands served
24 hr
Mockup turnaround
50+
Countries shipped
Editorial flat-lay of a finished ActivateSwag welcome kit on a clean off-white linen surface — folded heather t-shirt, navy ceramic mug, hardcover notebook, brushed-steel water bottle, and a small kraft gift box.
Trusted by teams at
Coca-ColaFontainebleauMarriottWorld Youth DaySecuritiArcesiumCompassB&B InsuranceOscarAmazonAzimutTD BankCoupaF1 MiamiUniversity of MiamiMiami DolphinsMarineMaxCoca-ColaFontainebleauMarriottWorld Youth DaySecuritiArcesiumCompassB&B InsuranceOscarAmazonAzimutTD BankCoupaF1 MiamiUniversity of MiamiMiami DolphinsMarineMax
How we’re different

Most swag companies are stuck in 2005.

PDF catalogs. Email-attachment mockups. Reorders that start from scratch every time. We rebuilt every step.

Built for how buying swag should work

Switching is easier than you think.

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“The mockup came back in a day, the kits shipped on time, and our team actually wears the gear. That was a first for us.”
— Sarah K., People Ops Lead
The job
Who you talk to
Legacy promo distributor
A rotating queue of order coordinators
ActivateSwag
A dedicated account manager who knows your brand
The job
Mockups & artwork
Legacy promo distributor
Paid revisions, 5–7 day turnaround
ActivateSwag
Free, unlimited, 24-hour turnaround
The job
Where products come from
Legacy promo distributor
One catalog, take it or leave it
ActivateSwag
Trusted US supplier network — plus direct production overseas when you need custom or scale
The job
How you place orders
Legacy promo distributor
PDF catalogs and email threads
ActivateSwag
Self-serve swag store + employee redemption links
The job
Inventory & kitting
Legacy promo distributor
Your problem after the order ships
ActivateSwag
Stored, kitted, and shipped on demand
The job
Global shipping
Legacy promo distributor
Domestic-only or surcharged
ActivateSwag
US + international, one platform
ActivateSwag founder Patrick Lowenthal handing Pope Francis a custom-designed pilgrim backpack on stage at World Youth Day 2016 in Krakow, Poland.
View from the World Youth Day stage in Krakow — ActivateSwag's founder facing two million pilgrims and flags from 187 countries.
Krakow, Poland · World Youth Day 2016

Two million pilgrims. 187 countries. The view from the stage just before our founder met the Pope.

Where this started

We bid on the biggest order we had no business winning. We delivered it flawlessly.

ActivateSwag was founded in 2015 in a college apartment. The way companies bought swag was broken — fragmented vendors, opaque pricing, no accountability — and we wanted to fix it.

Our first bid was for World Youth Day in Krakow, the largest recurring event hosted by the Catholic Church.

We won.

3.2 million products, 625,000 kits, and 88 shipping containers delivered on deadline to two million pilgrims from 187 countries. On stage in front of all of them, our founder handed Pope Francis a custom-designed pilgrim backpack — the first product ActivateSwag ever made.

Today, that’s still the standard.

From a college apartment to global launches — see what we’ve shipped since.

What drives every decision we make

Built around a problem worth solving.

01Mission

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.

02Vision

A single place for every team’s swag — from new-hire kits to global launches.

One place for procurement, brand, and people ops — instead of vendors, PDFs, and spreadsheets stitched together.

How we operate

Four values. No ambiguity.

The principles our team holds themselves to on every order, every platform release, and every client conversation.

Customer first.

Every order matters like the first. Smooth delivery is the only proof.

Whether it's order one or order one hundred: proactive updates, no surprise invoices, and deadlines that don't slip.

Quality excellence.

Every product has your name on it. We don't forget that.

We vet every supplier before they make it into our catalog and inspect every order before it ships. Only the products and partners that meet our standards earn a spot in your program.

Innovation.

The platform exists because spreadsheets shouldn't.

We built ActivateSwag because we watched HR, marketing, and ops teams waste hours managing inventory by email. Technology should remove friction. We keep building because the friction keeps moving.

Global reach.

Sourced globally. Fulfilled locally. Managed from anywhere.

A vetted network of suppliers and fulfillment partners gives us the geographic and operational range to serve clients wherever they operate — without sacrificing the standards we hold every order to.

Where the work happens

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.

24/7
Order visibility across your dashboard
Every
Order reviewed before it ships
1:1
Account team — you’ll know them by name
Three ActivateSwag warehouse workers in navy aprons packing folded apparel and branded kits at a steel table on the Miami kitting floor.
An ActivateSwag warehouse aisle in Miami with labeled shelving and inventory bins ready for kitting and outbound fulfillment.
A diverse ActivateSwag team collaborates around a monitor in a sunlit Miami office.
Ready to make swag easy?

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.