Which brands sponsor tech YouTubers? The top 18 in 2026

To find the brands that sponsor tech YouTubers most often, we counted every sponsorship Branzly detected on technology channels in the 12 months to 31 October 2026: 9,788 deals on 802 channels, from 892 different brands. Hostinger sponsored the most tech channels of any brand that pays for promotion, 58, while Amazon product links appeared on 318.

After those two, the brands with the widest reach in tech are Epidemic Sound on 40 channels, Notion on 34 and Brilliant on 32. The full top 18 is below.

The brands that sponsor tech YouTubers, ranked

Amazon is a special case. 2,868 of its 2,897 deals are product links in video descriptions, and only 29 are spoken reads. Epidemic Sound is similar: all 551 of its deals are description links.

Leaving Amazon aside, Brilliant has the most spoken reads, 21 on 32 channels, followed by Hostinger with 19 and Anker with 11. Anker is the most spoken-read heavy brand in the table, with 11 of its 22 deals read out on camera.

How common sponsorships are on tech channels

The 802 sponsored channels are about 29% of the 2,753 technology channels Branzly tracks. Most deals are links rather than reads: only 254 of the 9,788 deals were spoken on camera, about 2.6%. Amazon alone accounts for 2,897 deals, about 30% of the total, so a tech channel with an Amazon product link is far more common than one with a paid read.

The other 17 brands in the table carried 1,884 deals between them, about 19% of the year's total. The other 874 brands each reached fewer than 13 tech channels.

What kinds of brands sponsor tech channels

The 18 brands fall into a few clear groups.

1. Hosting and online stores: Hostinger and Shopify. Hostinger reaches the most channels, while Shopify's 77 deals carry a higher estimated value, about $460,000.
2. Learning: Brilliant, Udemy and Boot.dev. Boot.dev's deals are description links with a creator code, and it reached 21 tech channels.
3. Hardware and accessories: UGREEN, Anker and AliExpress. UGREEN reached 27 tech channels, mostly through description links.
4. Privacy: NordVPN, Surfshark and Incogni, which each reached 13 to 15 tech channels. Surfshark's 26 deals were worth an estimated $325,000.
5. Productivity, AI and business software: Notion, n8n, HubSpot and Odoo. n8n, an automation tool, ran 92 deals on 15 channels, all of them description links.

Saily, which Branzly files as a travel brand, is the outlier in the list. Its 39 deals on 17 tech channels were worth an estimated $331,000, more than Hostinger's 195 deals.

For a closer look at one of these sponsors, read our breakdown of NordVPN YouTube sponsorships.

Tech channels that work with the most brands

Cal Newport has about 370,000 subscribers and worked with more brands than Linus Tech Tips at 16.9 million. Darren Yeo carried 11 brands with about 46,100 subscribers. Channel reports for the others: ShortCircuit, This Week in Startups, The Friday Checkout, Sabine Hossenfelder, ByteGrad, AI Master and JerryRigEverything.

How we got these numbers

Branzly scans the transcripts and descriptions of YouTube videos for sponsor mentions and stores each match with the video's views, publish date and a confidence score. For this article we took every spoken read and description deal published between 1 November 2025 and 31 October 2026 on the 2,753 channels Branzly files under technology, and counted the distinct channels each brand reached.

Automated detection makes mistakes with brand names that are also common words. We removed Away and Keeps, whose matches in tech videos were mostly the ordinary words. Estimated values come from Branzly's sponsorship model, about $20 per 1,000 views for a spoken read and about $4 for a description link, and are not the brands' actual payments.

What to do with this

1. If you run a tech channel, start your outreach with the brands that already buy spoken reads in tech: Brilliant, Hostinger and Anker.
2. Check each brand's page, such as Hostinger's, to see which channels of your size it already works with.
3. Look at channels like Darren Yeo for proof that a channel under 50,000 subscribers can carry 11 brands in a year. Our list of brands that sponsor small channels is a good place to start.
4. Price your offer from recent views with the sponsorship calculator, and read how to find YouTube sponsors that pay well before you pitch.

To compare these brands with sponsors in every niche, open the sponsor leaderboard.