2026 Sponsors Recap · Year 12 · Underground Atlanta

The Year the World
Watched Atlanta.

July 12, 2026. World Cup summer. Live peach trees on Peachtree Street. 50 of the city's best chefs and bartenders — and your brand at the center of it all. Here's what we built together.

1,140 Guests
235 Media Mentions
296.45M Audience Reach
$4.32M Earned Media
35 Influencer Affiliates
10 Media Partners
Who Was in the Room

1,140 Guests. A Room Built, Not Bought.

PeachFest doesn't fill a venue — it curates a room. Of the 1,140 guests at Underground Atlanta, 47% arrived as invited guests of sponsors, partners, and chefs — the curated layer that put your brand next to the people who run Atlanta's kitchens, agencies, and companies. The other 53% were ticket buyers drawn from Taste Network's in-market database of 28,000+ — twelve years of food-first Atlantans spanning the full range of the city's communities and cultures.

How we got them there: 35 influencer affiliates creating culture on feeds all summer, ten Atlanta media partners carrying the story, and Underground Atlanta's 450K+ subscriber base as the festival's ground game.

And the room included the talent itself — chefs whose restaurants have landed on the World's 50 Best and North America's best lists, the up-and-comers chasing them, kitchens dedicated to saving our oceans, and the food champions who grow and support local agriculture in Atlanta.

1,140
Guests Attended
July 12, 2026 · Underground Atlanta
47% · 53%
Partner & Chef Guests · Ticket Buyers
28,000+
Taste Network In-Market Database
Twelve years of ticket buyers, chefs, and Atlanta's food community.
450K+
Underground Atlanta Subscribers
The venue's own audience — the festival's home-field ground base.
By the Numbers

More Than Double the Earned Media of 2025.

Independent media measurement from Critical Mention, tracked May 1 through July 21, 2026. This is coverage your sponsorship earned — not paid placement.

$4.32M
Total Publicity Value
Up from $2.04M in 2025 — a 112% year-over-year increase in earned media.
296.45M
Total Audience Reach
Broadcast, print, digital, and newsletter audiences combined.
235
Media Mentions
TV, radio, print, and digital coverage across the Atlanta market and beyond.
35
Influencer Affiliates
Creators on the ground, posting reels, stories, and coverage all festival long.
Metric2026 · Year 122025 · Year 11
Total publicity value (earned media)$4.32 million ▲$2.04 million
Media mentions235265
Total audience reach296.45 million426.54 million
Media partnerships10
Influencer affiliates35
Chefs & bartenders5065
VenueUnderground AtlantaPeachtree Center Plaza
Event dateJuly 12, 2026July 27, 2025

Source: Critical Mention media monitoring (May 1 – July 21, 2026), compiled by TobinInk. Preliminary — social mention and editorial placement totals still being finalized.

For Sponsors & Partners

Need to Report It? It's Already Written.

A three-page PDF built for internal reporting and proof of participation — the numbers, the audience, the coverage, and the contacts, designed to read fast and print light. Pair it with photos from the Flickr gallery and your report is done.

Photography by Max Flatow — free to use with credit to @BradyLowe75 · @TasteNetwork · @ATLpeachfest.

Press & Broadcast

On Every Screen in Atlanta.

Broadcast interviews ran on WANF, FOX5's Good Day Atlanta, and 11Alive's streaming network. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Rough Draft Atlanta, and JAMES Magazine carried the story in print and digital — with the JAMES interview distributed across its CEO newsletter network.

Top Audience Placements
10M
Yelp — July 10 summer calendar listing
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10M
Georgia Patch — July 10 summer events roundup
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2.8M
11Alive — July 8, Chef Hector Santiago interview
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1M
Axios Atlanta — July 9 weekend event listing
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734.8K
WANF — June 22 Facebook post, peach trees arrive ahead of PeachFest
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255.4K
Atlanta Journal-Constitution — July 7 weekend events
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Media Partnerships

10 Atlanta Media Partners Carried the Story.

Ten Atlanta media organizations backed PeachFest 2026 — promoting the festival through newsletters, calendar posts, social media, digital display banners, broadcast mentions, and ticket giveaways.

Atlanta Magazine
Atlanta Way 2.0
Butter.ATL
Global Atlanta
GPB — Georgia Public Broadcasting
JAMES Magazine
Rough Draft
Atlanta
The Atlanta Voice
WABE 90.1
Yelp

In exchange for tickets and logo placement, these partners delivered promotion across their full channel mix — a media partnership program that returned in 2026 at twice the scale.

Creator Coverage

35 Affiliate Influencers On the Ground.

Atlanta's food and lifestyle creators covered PeachFest all afternoon — reels, stories, and posts that kept the festival on feeds long after the last pour. The standouts below alone bring a combined 80K+ Instagram following — and they're just 5 of the 35 creators who were on the ground:

@bloom.with.brooke
8.1K followers

Festival-day reel capturing the peach orchard installation and the afternoon's best bites.

Watch the Reel →
@bestbiteswithj

Atlanta food creator taking followers dish-by-dish through the chef lineup.

Watch the Reel →
@explorinjordans
2.9K followers

Exploring Underground Atlanta's new era through the festival experience.

Watch the Reel →
@servinglooksatl
63K followers · 90M+ views across platforms

Style-forward coverage of the crowd, the cocktails, and the culture.

Watch the Reel →
@dresslikeagent
8K followers

Lifestyle creator spotlighting the VIP experience and festival fashion.

Watch the Reel →
@ATLpeachfest
4.1K followers

The official festival account — tag us, follow along, and relive Year 12.

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The Films

Six Films. Two Formats. Yours to Use.

The official 2026 recap films — each produced in 16:9 for web and presentations and 9:16 for social. Press play to watch right here, or grab the files from Dropbox for your own channels.

Sponsors film — PeachFest 2026
The Sponsors Film

Your brands, on site and in the story — the film made for the partners who made Year 12 happen.

Best of Sizzle film — PeachFest 2026
Best of Sizzle

The whole festival in one high-energy cut — fire, flavor, music, and the crowd that showed up for it.

Chef and Food film — PeachFest 2026
Chefs & Food

50 chefs and bartenders, the Peach Omakase, and peach-forward plates from every corner of the festival.

Underground Atlanta film — PeachFest 2026
Underground Atlanta

A new home in the heart of downtown — the venue story, from Kenny's Alley to the World Cup crowds.

Spanglish Cocina and Fireside Chat film — PeachFest 2026
Spanglish Cocina & Fireside Chats

Chef Hector Santiago, Julio Delgado, and Mariam Monti Carlo bring diaspora cuisine to Georgia peaches.

People, Band and Lifestyle film — PeachFest 2026
People, Band & Lifestyle

The crowd, the live brass, the afternoon light — the feeling of PeachFest, bottled.

Year 13 Is Already in Motion.

The partners who invested in Year 12 got World Cup summer, $4.32M in earned media, and a city's full attention. Let's talk about what your brand does next July.

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