AppleFitness+ TIME TO WALK

Running the feed that got people moving.

Embodying the voice of brand across every asset on the Fitness+ Instagram account and overseeing the social launch of Time to Walk.

🔉 SOUND ON 🔉

AppleFitness+ was a new subscription service with a weekly programming calendar and an audience stuck indoors. The feed had to sell workouts nobody could see, hold Apple's craft standard on every post, and sound like a person rather than a product marketing channel. A design problem and a voice problem, running at the same time, every week.

THE CHALLENGE

WHERE I CAME IN

Owned the channel, not a campaign. I was Creative Director on the Fitness+ Instagram account across everything it published: design, layout, art direction, and the voice. Not a campaign that ran for a few weeks, an always-on feed with a release calendar behind it. Held Apple's craft standard at weekly cadence. Typography, layout and art direction on every asset, from the weekly programming templates to one-offs like International Women's Day. A feed is judged on consistency more than on any single post, and consistency at that standard is a design discipline before it's a content one. Launched Time to Walk into lockdown. A 25 to 40 minute audio walk with a guest telling personal stories, delivered to a watch. Dolly Parton, Shawn Mendes, Draymond Green, Uzo Aduba, Misty Copeland. Intimate, slow, and almost impossible to show, launching at the exact moment nobody could go outside. The feed's job was to make a product you couldn't photograph feel like something you wanted. Made the franchise work in feed. Time to Walk came with an identity. I built how it lived on the account, and supervised the social edits, sound design and final cuts.

ROLE

Creative Director, Design 
CLIENT: Apple 
SCOPE: Social content strategy, Art direction, Design,
voice of brand

IMPACT

  • 70K gain in Instagram followers during my watch

  • Time to Walk became a flagship Fitness+ franchise, expanding into Time to Run and Audio Meditations, and still running today

  • Coverage in TechCrunch, CNN, MobiHealthNews, Digital Trends, MacRumors and NME