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The Bay Area Book Festival is a lifestyle event with a twist, an elite cultural experience that also is a huge community gathering within a single weekend. It’s a perfect opportunity to showcase your brand, products and services to tens of thousands of sophisticated residents from throughout the Bay Area. Check out our 2017 Sponsorship Opportunities.

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Who can you reach?

  • You’ll find thousands of educated adult women with purchasing power. Among all attendees, over 60% are women, nearly 70% have a Bachelor’s degree or higher, and over 30% make over $100,000/year. Two-thirds come from the East Bay, with the balance from San Francisco, Marin, and the South Bay.
  • But that’s only part of the story. The big festival crowd also allows for 30% lower-income attendees, with 13% making under $25,000/year. The festival enables a socially-conscious business to bring literacy and culture to all.
  • You’ll reach broad populations. Festivalgoers are more diverse racially than the Bay Area as a whole.

What attracts the crowds?

  • Over 200 best-selling authors (including Pulitzer Prize winners, chefs, writers for teens, and more) in indoor keynotes, interviews, panels and performances all day and evening in beautiful downtown Berkeley auditoriums—with these events sponsorable!
  • 200 elite literary exhibitors along with sponsor booths and activations packed in and around downtown Berkeley’s main park and adjacent streets. Nearly 60% of festivalgoers in 2016 reported that they came to the book festival not merely to see authors but to shop.

Photo Credit: Richard Friedman

Photo Credit: Richard Friedman

We can work with you to create a customized package that reaches your sales, marketing and branding targets.The festival offers many specialized content areas and audience opportunities. At various levels from $5,000 to $50,000, entitlements can include:

  • Named stage, program areas, or individual keynotes, interviews or panels of interest (e.g., Children’s Stage, environmental writing, international author programs, technology topics)—including on-stage signage, b-roll video, distribution of literature, and logo on festival signage, tickets, website, etc.
  • Recognition as sponsor of the elegant Gala the evening before the festival (600 guests including featured authors plus business, cultural, government, and media leaders)
  • Premier-level recognition in full- and half-page San Francisco Chronicle ads.
  • Recognition and ad in the festival’s 32-page tabloid Program Guide distributed in all Sunday Chronicle papers a week before the festival (audited readership of 900,000).
  • Press releases, social media, and other marketing to promote your involvement.
  • High-traffic outdoor activation tents within the festival footprint for two days.
  • Tickets for you, your co-workers, and clients to the exclusive Gala.
  • Greenroom access (higher levels) and VIP Passes for festival programs.
  • Lower-level sponsorships ($1,500-$4,500) may be available and can include an activation tent, a small Program Guide ad, and/or Gala tickets and VIP passes.
  • The nonprofit book festival also can advance your philanthropic goals around literacy & education, community building, and arts & culture. Sponsorship of the Bay Area Book Festival may be tax-deductible within the extent of the law.

To explore options with no obligation, please contact Pat Rose at pat@baybookfest.org.