3… 2… 1… SPRING! Festival Wrap-Up: 14 Days, 100+ Brands and 300 Publishers

Spring delivered exactly what it promised — growth.

After 14 intense days of performance acceleration, the 3… 2… 1… SPRING! Festival officially closed its books. And the numbers tell a story worth sharing.

Thank you to every publisher who hit Confirm on the landing page, every advertiser who boosted their rates, and every team behind the scenes who made the sprint possible. Spring is the season of growth — and you proved it.

The Festival by the Numbers

Where the Real Magic Happened

While the full ranking will be shared directly with winners, here is a snapshot of the verticals and markets that stood out during the sprint.

🎓 Education — the breakout vertical

Education was the runaway story of the festival. Top-performing language and tutoring programs saw approved orders climb up to 4.6× versus the pre-festival baseline. Publishers leaned hard into back-to-learning intent, and tiered commissions did the rest.

👗 Fashion & beauty — premium brands rewarded the push

Premium beauty and fashion programs more than doubled their festival approved orders compared with baseline, with several posting extraordinary year-over-year jumps. Mid-tier fashion saw +70% lifts, while regional luxury programs added steady double-digit growth — and global denim and apparel programs attracted some of the largest waves of new publisher joins of the festival.

💻 SaaS, AI tools & productivity — high-velocity growth

Productivity SaaS was a velocity vertical. Document-workflow and HR-tech programs doubled approved orders (+103%), food-procurement platforms grew +79%, and supplement and consumer e-com programs in CEE posted a +33% lift with a remarkable year-over-year jump. Across password managers, office suites and AI assistants, publisher acquisition reached record levels.

🔒 VPN & cybersecurity — the volume engines

The cybersecurity cohort ran the festival like clockwork. The category as a whole attracted several hundred new publisher joins during the sprint — a clear signal that demand for privacy and security offers remains structurally strong.

✈️ Travel — steady performance with a strong tail

Publishers stayed busy across global OTAs, airlines, hotels, ground-transport and tour-experience programs. Several regional travel programs posted triple-digit year-over-year growth, as spring-break and Easter demand kicked in across multiple markets.

🌍 Local champions across focus markets

• 🇮🇩 Indonesia — marketplace and e-commerce programs led local growth
• 🇵🇱 Poland — price-comparison and beauty verticals
• 🇧🇷 Brazil — retail and grocery programs
• 🇦🇪🇸🇦 UAE / KSA — lifestyle and deals-driven offers
• 🇮🇳 India — D2C fashion and consumer electronics

Regional offers proved that the festival isn’t just for global brands — local champions delivered some of the festival’s strongest sprints.

Two Cohorts, Two Stories

The 2-cohort structure worked exactly as designed:

• Spring Pro (>100 baseline actions) — ranked by % growth. Established publishers competed against their own historical performance, and many beat it by multiples.
• Rising Talent (<100 baseline actions) — ranked by absolute approved volume. Newer publishers built real volume on premium offers without being crushed by larger players.

Fair cohorting, transparent rules, validated results.

About the Winners

Final rankings are now locked and validated after fraud-prevention checks, manual review and compliance with Admitad network rules.

🎁 Winners across both cohorts will be contacted personally by the Admitad team in the coming days. Premium Apple prizes — AirPods Max, iPad, AirPods 4 and other top-tier rewards — are on their way to the publishers who earned them.

If you confirmed your participation on the landing page, watch your inbox.

3 Takeaways If You Missed the Sprint

• Education, productivity SaaS and AI tools are converting at multipliers, not percentages.
• Regional offers in Poland, Indonesia, the UAE and Brazil are quietly outperforming many global programs on growth.
• Rate boosts compound. Publishers who optimized creatives and traffic during the festival turned higher commissions into materially higher payouts.

Don’t Miss the Next One

This was sprint #1 of the year. More festivals, more rate boosts and more premium prizes are already in the pipeline.

If you’re not in the Admitad network yet — now is the time. New publishers who join today will be ready when the next festival opens.

Thank you to every publisher, advertiser and partner who showed up for the 3… 2… 1… SPRING! Festival 2026. Spring is the season of growth — and you proved exactly what it looks like.