SEPT 26—OCT 4, 2026
Atlanta Design Festival is a platform to celebrate, convene, & connect creative industries. The festival invites the brightest creative leaders and organizations to host installations, exhibitions, design and architecture tours, film screenings, conference panels and more, to showcase Atlanta as a global powerhouse and innovator of ideas. Read More
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About Atlanta Design Festival
The Atlanta Design Festival Network connects your brand with architects, designers, developers, and creative professionals across three platforms — year-round, with a concentrated festival season audience every fall.
Atlanta Design Festival is a platform to celebrate, convene, and connect the creative industries. Listed in Dezeen’s Top 50 architecture, design, and technology events in the world, ADF is the Southeast region’s creative hub – one of the world’s most emerging design events, bringing together designers and visitors annually.
The festival connects leading and emerging brands to decision-makers and the $35B+ design economy shaping Atlanta’s future. Programming spans installations, exhibitions, architecture tours, film screenings, conferences, and more.
65k+
Annual sessions
Aug-Oct
Festival peak traffic
500k+
Est. annual impressions
3
Websites within network
16k+
Direct social followers
100k+
ATL Design Professionals
76k+
Social media followers
115+
ADF Corporate Partnerships
About the Audience
Who’s in the audience
- Architects and architecture practices
- Interior and product designers
- Creative directors and brand leads
- Property developers and realtors
- Event sponsors and cultural institutions
- Design-curious public and city makers
Why this audience converts
ADF visitors arrive with intent. They are researching architecture tours, seeking design professionals, planning projects, and making purchasing decisions within a high-value design economy.
This is not a mass consumer audience. These are practitioners and decision-makers in a $35B+ design economy — exactly the people who act on targeted advertising from relevant brands.
27% Professionals
Architects — the single largest professional group in the ADF audience
45% Core age band
35 to 50 — working professionals at peak spending and decision-making age
61% Gender split
Female — a majority female audience of creative and design professionals
The ADF Network
One campaign, three platforms. All creative spend works harder — your ads rotate across every site simultaneously, and impressions are tracked and reported centrally.
Atlanta Design Festival
The flagship festival platform. Covers programming, tours, exhibitions, speakers, and events. Traffic peaks sharply during the festival season from August to October.
atlantadesignfestival.net
Architecture Tours
Architecture tour platform serving festival visitors and design travellers. Currently Atlanta-focused, expanding to nationwide tours in 2026. High-intent visitors.
architecturetours.us
MA — Design Is Human
The editorial and content platform that sits above both properties. Covers design culture, practice, and the intersection of creativity and everyday life.
ma-designishuman.comAd Formats
All campaigns include all three formats. One set of creative assets covers every placement across the network. Each page on each site serves all three ad slots — maximising your exposure per visit.
File formats
Max file size
Creative swaps
Link destination
Rotation
Tracking
JPEG, PNG, GIF (static or animated)
200kb per creative
One per campaign included
Single URL per campaign (same across all formats)
Weighted rotation if running alongside other advertisers
Impressions and clicks, reported per campaign
MPU
300 × 250px
Mid-page unit positioned in the footer of every page. High visibility on scroll. The most common digital ad format — your creative team will have existing assets.
Leaderboard
728 × 90px
Placed between content sections on every page. Readers encounter it mid-journey, as they engage with editorial content rather than before it loads.
Skyscraper
160 × 600px
Persistent presence in the left column across all pages. Stays in view as visitors scroll through long-form content — strong brand recall.
Packages & Pricing
Each package includes all three ad formats across all three sites. Impression caps are toggleable — open-ended agreements (no cap) and event-date cutoffs are both supported.
- 25,000 impressions
- All three ad formats
- Network-wide distribution
- 60-day window
- Click tracking included
$25 CPM
$5,500 per campaign
- 200,000 impressions
- All three ad formats
- Network-wide distribution
- 12-month window
- Includes festival season
- Monthly impression report
- 75,000 impressions
- All three ad formats
- Network-wide distribution
- Aug – Oct festival window
- Impression + click reporting
- Priority rotation during peak
$35 CPM — festival audience premium
$8,500 per campaign
- Unlimited impressions — no cap
- All three ad formats
- Homepage feature slot
- Festival season + 3 months
- Optional editorial mention
- Co-branded assets available
- Monthly impression report
Flat fee — runs for 6 months
Build your campaign
Complete the form below to build and submit your campaign.
This will create a draft in our system for us to review and publish.
If there is any reason we cannot proceed with your campaign, we will notify you and refund you immediately.