What is it like to build a media career at Route?
Route is an independent media planning and buying agency in Newcastle upon Tyne, trading since 2016. Careers here are built on real client work across broadcast, digital, out of home and print, with training and support from apprenticeship through to senior planning roles.
How we work
Three things run through everything we deliver: we use data rather than habit, we hold ourselves to a high standard of service, and we go the extra mile on every brief. People who enjoy that way of working - curious about audiences, honest about numbers, careful with clients' money - tend to do well here.
The work is genuinely broad. In the same week a planner might be flighting radio for a bus operator, reviewing paid social for a building society, and building a reporting dashboard for a university marketing team. Independence means the recommendation is always the client's best answer, not a network's trading deal.
Route is an accredited Living Wage Employer, paying at least the real Living Wage - the rate independently calculated to meet the cost of living, rather than the government minimum. The commitment is voluntary, made through the Living Wage Foundation.
Learning and development
Route develops its own people. We work with Baltic Apprenticeships to bring apprentices into the agency, and we have connections with Newcastle and Northumbria universities for graduates starting a media career in the North East. Training runs from platform certifications through to client-facing planning skills, and the senior team works in the same room as the newest joiner.
Open roles
We have no live vacancies today. That changes as the agency grows, so check back - or better, send a speculative application below and we will keep it in mind when a role opens.
Send a speculative application
Email your CV to info.route@route.agency with a short note about yourself and the kind of role you are looking for, whether that is media planning and buying, digital and paid media, analytics and reporting or an apprenticeship or first role.
A member of the team reads every application. We use it only to consider you for roles at Route, and we keep it for six months unless you ask us to delete it sooner. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your details.
Common questions
Do you take on people without agency experience?
Yes. Route brings people in through apprenticeships with Baltic Apprenticeships and through graduate connections with Newcastle and Northumbria universities, and trains them on real client work from the start.
Where is the role based?
Route works from Generator Studios on Trafalgar Street in Newcastle upon Tyne, next to Newcastle Central Station. Roles are based at the Newcastle studio.
What happens to a speculative application?
A member of the team reads every application. We hold your details only to consider you for roles, and we will delete them on request at any time.
Want to talk before applying?
Email info.route@route.agency and ask for a conversation about working at Route.