Recess X Yugo: 1 Year of Seamless Partnership
Discover how Yugo leverages Recess to deliver premium brand experiences to students across 49 locations, generating incremental revenue with zero operational burden.
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Brands That Have Sampled at Yugo
Yugo Real Activations
See how premium products are being sampled at your current properties across the country.
Delight Members. Zero Effort. Get Paid.
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.
Proven at Enterprise Scale
We've successfully executed 10+ campaigns across 49 Yugo locations—with consistent quality, timing, and results every time.
Revenue Without Risk
Yugo earns incremental revenue on every campaign with zero upfront costs, no inventory liability, and no operational overhead for your teams.
Turnkey Execution
From brand coordination to product delivery and reporting, Recess handles every detail. Your team simply places products and watches students engage.
Complete Brand Control
Yugo approves every brand and campaign before activation. Nothing enters your university housing complexes without your explicit sign-off—protecting your brand integrity.
Premium Brands
Connect your students with leading wellness, nutrition, and lifestyle brands actively seeking partnerships with university housing complexes like Yugo.
Dedicated Partnership Team
Become part of 10,000+ venues partnering with Recess to transform how brands connect with consumers in real-world spaces.
How It Works
Launch your first sampling campaign in days, not months.
Create a Listing for Your University housing complex
Create and list your profile in under 5 minutes. 100% free to join and no obligations.
Get Matched with Brands
We connect you with brands looking to reach your specific students. You review and approve every campaign.
Receive & Distribute Samples
Products ship directly to your university housing complex and surprise and delight your community.
Get Paid
Get paid for every sample distributed to your students after completion of event.
What Venues Like You Are Saying
Real feedback from venues partnering with Recess
We partnered with a major beverage brand for a weekend sampling event, and the turnout was incredible. Our residents were genuinely excited to try new products, and it created a great community vibe in our courtyard. The brand was professional and respectful of our space, and we'd definitely host more activations like this.
Hosting product sampling events has genuinely boosted our resident retention and word-of-mouth. Families and students appreciate the free samples and entertainment value, and it gives our complex a more dynamic, engaged community feel. The activation was seamless to coordinate, and the brand team cleaned up perfectly after themselves.
What impressed us most was how the activation brought our residents together around something fun and unexpected. The snack brand we hosted generated real buzz in our complex, and residents were talking about it for weeks afterward. It's a win-win—brands get quality feedback from our demographic, and we strengthen resident satisfaction without lifting a finger.