How to get sponsored by Holafly: the travel sponsor that keeps coming back

If you make travel videos, you have probably heard a Holafly read: an eSIM you install before the trip, so your phone has data the moment you land. Holafly is one of the most active sponsors in YouTube travel, and its pattern is unusual. It sponsors a lot of small channels, and once it works with a channel it tends to stay.

We looked at every sponsored video in our index from the last 12 months that named Holafly as the sponsor, and at the channels behind them.

Holafly sponsored 397 channels, 171 of them under 100K

In the last 12 months, 397 distinct YouTube channels published at least one video sponsored by Holafly. The median channel had 153K subscribers.

That is 171 channels under 100K, 43% of the total, and the smallest had 1.1K subscribers. For comparison, the same share is 27% for Saily, the other big travel eSIM, and 24% for NordVPN. Among large sponsors, few are as open to small channels.

At the top end the list includes Fernanfloo, Luisito Comunica, Tibo InShape, TheGrefg, TheWillyrex and NickandCarrie, so Holafly buys at every size.

It is growing fast

Holafly's YouTube spending has roughly doubled over the year. In November 2025, 80 channels ran a Holafly sponsorship. By September 2026 it was 168 in a single month, and 284 of its 397 channels ran one in the last 90 days. A brand that is adding channels this quickly is still looking for more of them.

Once Holafly sponsors a channel, it usually stays

69% of the channels Holafly sponsored ran it more than once in the year. That is the highest repeat rate in this series: 41% for NordVPN, 33% for Saily and Raid, 13% for War Thunder. Some channels carry it in almost every upload, including The Dufresnes (23K), Take Time To Travel (20K) and Adventures of Matt and Nat (146K).

That changes how to think about the first deal. With Holafly, the first sponsored video is usually the start of an ongoing arrangement, typically with your own discount code. Deliver the first one well and it becomes recurring income rather than a one-off.

Travel first, and very international

Travel is the core: 259 of the 397 channels, about two thirds. The rest are lifestyle (24), tech (16), food (13), entertainment (13) and outdoor (12) channels, almost always with a travel angle in the sponsored video.

It is also one of the most international sponsors we track. The United States leads (100 channels), followed by the United Kingdom (52), Spain (38), Germany (23), Japan (22), Brazil (19), Australia (18) and Canada (17). Spanish-language channels are a big part of the list, from Luisito Comunica down to channels with a few thousand subscribers. You do not need to make videos in English to work with Holafly.

Recent examples you can inspect, all from channels under 100K subscribers and all carrying YouTube's paid-promotion disclosure:

• James and Josie Travel (35K): Is This The End of Our Trip Across Canada?, October 2026.
• Nigel & Sue Adventures (31K): How good is travelling Ireland by Campervan?, October 2026.
• The Flying Reporter (62K): Why a flight over Niagara Falls made this pilot CRY, October 2026.
• Kendall and Glenn (96K): We're moving?!, October 2026.

How to work with Holafly

Holafly runs an affiliate program for creators on its website, where you earn a commission on sales from your code and link. Its public job listings show affiliate managers dedicated to specific markets, including the UK and Australia, German, Spanish and Latin American, and French-speaking audiences. That matches what the data shows: a brand building creator relationships market by market, and keeping them.

The sponsored integrations in the tables above sit on top of that: a read in the video, a code, and the paid-promotion box ticked. Starting with the affiliate code and building a record of sales is a reasonable route to a paid read, and it fits a brand that clearly prefers ongoing partners.

When you pitch, send the numbers Holafly cares about: average views per video over the last 90 days, the countries your viewers come from, and an upcoming trip. The trip is the pitch. A video where you land somewhere new and need data on screen is the most natural place for an eSIM read.

How to approach Holafly, by channel size

Under 10K. Join the affiliate program and use your code in your own travel videos. Paid integrations happen at this size (27 channels in a year), but a code with real sales behind it is the stronger opening.

10K to 100K. This is where Holafly stands out: 144 channels in this range ran a paid read in the year. Pitch with views, audience countries and one specific upcoming trip. If your audience is Spanish-speaking, say so; it is one of Holafly's strongest markets.

100K and above. Look at the channels your size in your niche on the Holafly brand page and propose an ongoing slot rather than a single video, since that is how Holafly tends to work anyway.

For the short version with the latest examples, see how to get sponsored by Holafly. Our guide for travel channels covers the other brands in the space.

Method

We counted distinct YouTube channels with at least one video in the last 12 months (to October 2026) that our index attributes to Holafly as a sponsor. Sponsors are detected from public video descriptions and YouTube's paid-promotion disclosure through the official YouTube Data API. Each channel counts once; "more than once" means two or more Holafly videos in the window. Monthly figures count channels with a Holafly video published in that month. Affiliate promotions can be included where a description does not distinguish them from a paid read, which is likely part of the high repeat rate. Subscriber counts are current. Niche and country come from our channel classification and are missing for a minority of channels. Program details describe Holafly's public pages as of October 2026 and can change. This is research, not an endorsement of the brand or a statement about what it pays.