Summer festival · July · Kobetamendi, Bilbao
For sponsor delegations, brand activators and attending teams taking part in Bilbao BBK Live (summer mountain week on the slopes of Kobetamendi, Bilbao, Bizkaia), with three nights of headline concerts on the main stage, parallel electronic programming in the tented second stage, sponsor activations along the Uribitarte dock and a brand operation that links Basque hospitality in the Casco Viejo hotels (Hotel Carlton, Hotel María Cristina, Hotel Ercilla), institutional receptions at the Bilbao City Hall and the Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC) corridors, and a sustained festival village at the Kobetamendi camping area. EUR + 21% VAT via FACe / SII (AEAT) and 24–48 h delivery from the Madrid hub with road-fallback through the Bilbao hub.
Bilbao BBK Live is one of the headline summer dates on the European outdoor festival calendar: three nights of headline concerts on the slopes of Kobetamendi, an open-air electronic stage tucked into the wood line, a third smaller stage focused on local Basque and emerging Spanish artists, and a full festival village spread across the upper mountain with food courts, sponsor pavilions, camping and the now-iconic cable-car connection down to the riverside walk along the Nervión. The festival draws a steady flow of national and European music press, summer tour programmers scouting the next season, and a settled audience of regular festival-goers who combine the Bilbao event with tickets at the parallel Primavera Sound (Barcelona) and Mad Cool (Madrid) dates.
For sponsor delegations and brand-activation teams the operational challenge is to work with a three-night mountain event in July: the Basque weather swings between 24 °C at dusk on the open-air Main Stage and 12 °C at night on the upper mountain slope, the cable-car and pedestrian flow to Kobetamendi creates a critical freight window, and hospitality is set up in either the Casco Viejo historic-quarter hotels, the Ensanche corporate apartments or sponsor-owned spaces along the Uribitarte riverbank. The briefs we typically receive combine rain-resistant softshells and packable raincoats for the mountain staff, lanyards and badges for accredited guests and press, premium notebooks and Catalan-Basque craft items for take-home gifting, and a final festival gift box with Idiazábal cheese, txakolí wine and Loyola chocolate for international artists, promoters and visiting programmers.
The Madrid production hub — with permanent fallback to the Bilbao hub for last-mile and emergency replenishment — handles the entire order and delivers by road (SEUR, Correos Express, DHL) to the named recipient: the festival sponsor's offices in Bilbao, the reference hotel in the Casco Viejo, the Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC) in Barakaldo for the parallel trade programming, the sponsor's pavilion on the Kobetamendi slope, or the dressing rooms enabled at the Main Stage. The B2B invoice is issued in EUR with 21% VAT added via FACe / SII (AEAT); for intra-EU clients with a valid VIES number reverse-charge applies without Spanish VAT; for UK and non-EU clients the invoice is issued without VAT citing the corresponding EU directive article.
320 GSM corporate softshells in navy, graphite or sponsor-brand colour with two-colour embroidery of the sponsor's monogram, 220 GSM polos for the mountain crew, packable hood raincoats for the tented staff, fine merino scarves for night hospitality and recycled-cotton aprons for the sponsor pavilion at the Kobetamendi entry.
Premium notebooks with covers wrapped in Basque craft paper, fine-tip pens engraved with the festival seal, organic-cotton tote bags screen-printed with the Kobetamendi skyline, enamel pins with the Bilbao Guggenheim icon, branded matchboxes for the after-hours zone and linen bookmark ribbons for the printed festival programmes — 200 to 1,500 units per edition.
Compact branded power banks in muted design, USB hubs for the accredited press tent, screen-printed notebook + pen sets for international promoters and music journalists, national cultural press and visiting European programmers — 50–120 premium units per edition.
Premium hard-bound notebooks stamped with the sponsor's seal, Basque gourmet sets (txakolí wine, Idiazábal cheese, preserves, Loyola chocolate), limited editions of the festival catalogue, bilingual Spanish-Basque-English packaging and named delivery to the Kobetamendi dressing room, historic-quarter hotel or the cable-car station sponsor's lounge.
The brand operation at Bilbao BBK Live is usually coordinated between the Madrid hub and the Bilbao hub: the Madrid hub handles most graphic and light textile pieces, while the Bilbao hub serves as the backup warehouse for special pieces (gift sets, ceramics, premium packaging) and is reachable within hours for last-mile replenishment to the mountain venue. Delivery is by road to the named recipient — the sponsor's office in Bilbao, the reference hotel in the Casco Viejo, the Bilbao Exhibition Centre's loading dock, the sponsor's pavilion at the Kobetamendi entry, or the dressing rooms enabled at the Main Stage. The usual delivery window is 24–48 hours with prior appointment, since the festival runs in peak July holidays and the AP-8 towards San Sebastián and the BI-631 towards the mountain carry heavy weekend traffic.
We keep reserved stock at the Bilbao hub for the recurring items — softshells, polos, notebooks and tote bags with generic artwork — that we can produce and ship in 7–10 working days. For pieces with personalised embroidery (sponsor's monogram, limited-edition number) the window moves to 12–14 working days. For sponsors with bespoke hospitality pieces (Basque gourmet boxes, numbered sets with Bizkaia ceramics) we recommend closing the order 4–5 weeks before the first concert due to the seasonality of the gourmet products and the cold-chain handling for the cheese.
The B2B invoice is issued in EUR with 21% VAT added via FACe / SII (AEAT); for intra-EU clients with a valid VIES number reverse-charge applies without Spanish VAT; for UK and non-EU clients the invoice is issued without VAT citing the corresponding EU directive article. Every delivery is confirmed with a signed delivery note on arrival and, when the client requests it, with a photo of the unloaded material at the Uribitarte dock, in the Casco Viejo hotel reception or at the Kobetamendi entry checkpoint.
Historically in the second weekend of July, on the slopes of Kobetamendi mountain in Bilbao, Bizkaia, with three nights of headline concerts on the Main Stage, an electronic stage and a third smaller stage. Exact dates for each edition are confirmed on the festival website and in the Bilbao City Council cultural agenda.
Yes, to a named recipient: sponsor's office in Bilbao, reference hotel in the Casco Viejo, Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC) in Barakaldo for the parallel trade programming, sponsor's pavilion at the Kobetamendi entry, or the dressing rooms enabled at the Main Stage. For sponsors with multiple recipients we consolidate to a single hub address and the client's internal team distributes.
21% VAT via FACe / SII (AEAT). For intra-EU clients with a valid VIES number reverse-charge applies without Spanish VAT; for UK and non-EU clients the invoice is issued without VAT citing the corresponding EU directive article.
No. Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier that helps sponsoring companies, brand activators and delegations prepare their own merch for the event. It does not organise, sponsor or represent Bilbao BBK Live, the Bilbao City Council or the Kobetamendi venue.
Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier for companies that take part in Bilbao BBK Live. This page helps those teams prepare their own merch for the event; it does not represent Bilbao BBK Live, the Bilbao City Council or the Kobetamendi venue.