Asking my team. We used a couple of vendors for awards and branded merch/swag. Just can't remember who for the life of me. LOL. Once I have an answer, I'll repost here.
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Honestly, from my experience, most swag of nominal value ends up in the trash. Hence why we leaned more into giving advocates gift cards versus swag. The exception was a small Verint Bot (robot) plushy and small Lego set of the same Verint Bot. Both of these were hits. The other exception was the holiday gifts that we did for our top 10 (more like ~12) advocates every year. For these, though, we were spending in the neighborhood of $100 each. We did things like hand warmers/portable charger, cutlery board, blanket, jacket and hat, Bluetooth speaker, etc. Some were branded and some weren't. All were always a big hit.