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.
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.
Independent media measurement from Critical Mention, tracked May 1 through July 21, 2026. This is coverage your sponsorship earned — not paid placement.
| Metric | 2026 · Year 12 | 2025 · Year 11 |
|---|---|---|
| Total publicity value (earned media) | $4.32 million ▲ | $2.04 million |
| Media mentions | 235 | 265 |
| Total audience reach | 296.45 million | 426.54 million |
| Media partnerships | 10 | — |
| Influencer affiliates | 35 | — |
| Chefs & bartenders | 50 | 65 |
| Venue | Underground Atlanta | Peachtree Center Plaza |
| Event date | July 12, 2026 | July 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.
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.
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.
Paul Milliken broadcast live from Underground Atlanta with founder Brady Lowe and Wrecking Bar Brewpub's Stevenson Rosslow — a full morning of segments previewing the festival.
A leader in TV audience for the festival — 2.8 million reach. Chef Hector's July 8 interview spotlighted the Spanglish Cocina pop-up and Puerto Rican culinary heritage through Georgia peaches.
WANF covered PeachFest across its weekend news and ATL Live shows — and its June 22 "Peach Trees on Peachtree" story and Facebook post alone reached 734.8K people.
Weekend-event coverage in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Axios Atlanta, a JAMES Magazine feature distributed across its CEO newsletter network, and Rough Draft Atlanta's peach-trees 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.









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.
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:
Festival-day reel capturing the peach orchard installation and the afternoon's best bites.
Watch the Reel →Atlanta food creator taking followers dish-by-dish through the chef lineup.
Watch the Reel →Exploring Underground Atlanta's new era through the festival experience.
Watch the Reel →Style-forward coverage of the crowd, the cocktails, and the culture.
Watch the Reel →Lifestyle creator spotlighting the VIP experience and festival fashion.
Watch the Reel →The official festival account — tag us, follow along, and relive Year 12.
Follow →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.
Your brands, on site and in the story — the film made for the partners who made Year 12 happen.
The whole festival in one high-energy cut — fire, flavor, music, and the crowd that showed up for it.
50 chefs and bartenders, the Peach Omakase, and peach-forward plates from every corner of the festival.
A new home in the heart of downtown — the venue story, from Kenny's Alley to the World Cup crowds.
Chef Hector Santiago, Julio Delgado, and Mariam Monti Carlo bring diaspora cuisine to Georgia peaches.
The crowd, the live brass, the afternoon light — the feeling of PeachFest, bottled.
Selected from 881 photos shot on festival day at Underground Atlanta. Click any photo to open it full-size — and dive into the complete gallery on Flickr.
The complete PeachFest 2026 gallery lives on Flickr — free to browse, download, and share.
Open the Full Flickr Gallery →Photography: Max Flatow · Please credit @BradyLowe75 @TasteNetwork @ATLpeachfest
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.