BeatRoute Media

BeatRoute Media is a global lifestyle digital media company rooted in storytelling through the lens of a music fan committed to creating exciting, thought-provoking content that inspires and entertains, celebrating emerging artists and industry pioneers across genres.

Established in 2004 as a street print publication, BeatRoute has since gone digital, highlighting talent from all corners of the entertainment industry. BeatRoute offers bespoke editorial content, innovative social campaigns, and custom video content. I joined the BeatRoute in 2021 to work on the brand’s presence to affirm its identity and increase exposure with keen focus on expressing our identity authentically, aligning with our value pillars of positive shareable experiences, community connectivity, and being inspirational entertainment for both artists and audience. After many months of discovery, I’ve outlined BeatRoute’s brand identity attributes as bold, articulate, dynamic, and having a “finger-on-the-pulse”. This informed our visual DNA as being vibrant, crisp, experimental, and hyper-digital, which is apparent through all of our visual communication across our website, social media, and traditional marketing. In addition to my contributions as Creative Director, I contribute editorial work for our loyal readers and 30k monthly UVs, conducting interviews with artists and developing them into thoughtful and insightful profiles and cover stories.

https://beatroutemedia.com

Role

Creative Director

Designer

Writer

Strategy

Johnny Orlando Digital Cover Story

Social Strategy

As BeatRoute transitioned to a digital publication and reworked its content strategy, the same went for its social strategy, as 73% of our readership is on mobile interfaces. We share our articles via Stories on various platforms with links leading to our site, as well as focusing on fun, and engaging content that utilizes engagement tools. Whether it’s a “This Or That” following a major music industry event where artists are dressed in their best, or a “Choose Your Own Adventure” digital story, discovering new artists based on your preferences, through the slides. The visual strategy for our social presence is dynamic and attention grabbing and I tend to lean into type animation—something I have an affinity for—that looks sophisticated, but unpretentious. Since rethinking our strategy, our Instagram following trends upwards, and we’ve had many a viral videos, sometimes, with views in the millions.

BeatRoute Weekly Newsletter

Interested in reading some of my editorial work?

As an avid reader and general fan of literature, I took my copywriting skills to the next level by joining the team of editorial contributors for BeatRoute Media and becoming the primary editor in 2023. Working with labels and PR groups across North America, I’d organize, interview, creative direct, and write our monthly cover stories as well as regular programming. Putting my astrology insights, as a self proclaimed astrologer since childhood, to good use by becoming BeatRoute’s resident star-reader to write horoscopes and analyses of our favourite artists’ cosmic charts. In addition, I contribute regular news pieces for time sensitive music, screen, and lifestyle developments and roundups in popular culture. My past self who always had dreams of writing professionally, working at a library, reading in between the shelves, would be proud. Pause for a moment of nostalgia.

Shania Twain Is The Queen of Rising Up

BIA Knows The Business

EARTHGANG Tells Stories That AI Can’t

The Beaches Will Get You Through Your Breakup

Niall Horan: A Timeless Showman

Punchy, Poignant, and Pink: The Bubblegum Pop Artistry of Peach PRC

Lewis Capaldi: Finding Identity in the Spotlight and Taking the Piss Along the Way

Reneé Rapp Is Stepping Into Her Authentic Self

Indie Icons Reloaded: The Making of Local Natives’ ‘Time Will Wait For No One’

Inside Mario’s Y2K Time Capsule: Core Memories of R&B Gems and 2000s Fashion

My NFT Wishlist Inspired by Jay Z, Lil Baby, & 3LAU

Face-It, We’re All Headed For The Metaverse

Jump Aboard The Othership & Make Sure To Bring Your Breath

TOPS’ Jane Penny On The Essence Of Hope & Carefree Innocence

Not Just A Gemini: The Exploration of Kendrick Lamar’s Natal Chart

Libra Season Horoscopes: Here To Teach You The Elegant Art of Balance

Team Credits

Gabby Sgherri, Editor

Stella He, Designer & Content Coordinator

Marianne Hossari, Designer

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