Stompboxtober 2026 Results: 5,342 Entrants and About 1,900 Opt-Ins per Sponsor
Premier Guitar’s Stompboxtober wrapped its 2026 run on Oct. 31 after 31 straight days of pedal giveaways. Each day at noon Central, a new pedal from a different builder went live on the Stompboxtober hub at PremierGuitar.com, backed by a dedicated social post and push notification. Every giveaway stayed open for entries all month, so each sponsor kept collecting opt-ins long after its day was over.
Here’s how this year’s promotion performed.
Bigger Reach Than Ever
- 5,342 entrants, up 13.5 percent from 2025
- 294,800 total giveaway entries
- 52,204 hub page views from 12,011 users, nearly three times the traffic of 2025’s sponsor pages
- 31 prizes worth more than $8,300 in gear
Opt-Ins for Every Sponsor
Sponsors who were part of the giveaway for the full month collected between 1,736 and 2,618 newsletter opt-ins each, an average of about 1,900. Because every giveaway stayed open all month, a sponsor’s spot on the calendar made little difference: late-month days performed as well as early ones.
Social and Push
- 46 Instagram posts reached 361,087 accounts and drew 508,594 views
- 15 sponsor videos added 69,774 YouTube views
- A video typically reached 2.4 to 5.9 times as many Instagram accounts as a photo post, making it the most effective add-on for sponsors
- 31 push notifications totaled more than 1.1 million sends
Up Next: I Love Pedals
Our next pedal giveaway, I Love Pedals, runs Feb. 1–28, 2027, with the same format: a dedicated 24-hour showcase on PG’s site and social media, a spot on the giveaway hub, and opt-ins all month long. Packages are $695, or $995 with a John Bohlinger social collab video. Pricing goes up Jan. 1, 2027, and pedals, photos, and logos are due Jan. 20.
Reserve your I Love Pedals day, or contact your sales rep for package discounts.
