Discover how Mercury Events leverages Recess to deliver premium brand experiences to runners across 44 locations, generating incremental revenue with zero operational burden.
Expand Your Partnership
See how premium products are being sampled at your current properties across the country.
Surprise your members with free premium products they'll love—while Recess handles all the logistics. You distribute samples, they light up, you earn revenue.
We've successfully executed 8+ campaigns across 44 Mercury Events locations—with consistent quality, timing, and results every time.
Mercury Events earns incremental revenue on every campaign with zero upfront costs, no inventory liability, and no operational overhead for your teams.
From brand coordination to product delivery and reporting, Recess handles every detail. Your team simply places products and watches runners engage.
Mercury Events approves every brand and campaign before activation. Nothing enters your 5K runs without your explicit sign-off—protecting your brand integrity.
Connect your runners with leading wellness, nutrition, and lifestyle brands actively seeking partnerships with 5K runs like Mercury Events.
Become part of 10,000+ venues partnering with Recess to transform how brands connect with consumers in real-world spaces.
Launch your first sampling campaign in days, not months.
Create and list your profile in under 5 minutes. 100% free to join and no obligations.
We connect you with brands looking to reach your specific runners. You review and approve every campaign.
Products ship directly to your 5K run and surprise and delight your community.
Get paid for every sample distributed to your runners after completion of event.
Real feedback from venues partnering with Recess
The brand activation we hosted elevated our 5K from a simple race day into a full festival experience. We saw increased vendor interest for future events, higher attendance numbers, and our participants stayed longer to explore the sampling stations. Plus, the revenue sharing helped offset our event costs significantly.
We partnered with a sports nutrition brand for a sampling event at our weekly 5K meetup, and it was fantastic. The activation brought in sponsors' products our runners were genuinely interested in, and our participants appreciated the free samples post-race. It felt like a natural fit for our community rather than a forced promotion.
Working with Mercury Events to coordinate a hydration brand sampling at our coastal 5K was seamless from start to finish. The samples were perfectly positioned at aid stations, runners loved the convenience, and it created a memorable brand experience that felt organic to the race itself rather than intrusive.