Hats off to the champion! Hats defeated water bottles & tumblers in the Promo Insanity finals to claim the crown of world’s favorite promotional product. Never the presumptive favorite, hats made a surprise run through our contest, knocking off established favorites such as bags and T-shirts on its way to the title.

How did we get here? We started at the beginning of March with 16 of the most popular promotional items. We put them in a bracket and seeded them based on the total number of searches for those products last year in ESP. Each round, readers voted for their favorite promo product category.

Each week of the contest we also gave away Amazon gift cards to those who commented on our social media pages or used the #ASIPromoInsanity hashtag. Congratulations to Jazmin Sambo of iIMPRINT it, who won our final $100 gift card.

Scroll down to see the voting results from each round of our contest. And from all of us at ASI Media, a big thank you to our readers who voted and made our first ASI Promo Insanity contest a success.