MORE THAN A TOUR: HOW CRUSH IS BUILDING ONE WORLD ACROSS FOUR CORE CITIES 🍊 CRUSH Magazine | Culture + Business | 2026–2027 Look at the CRUSH calendar from a distance and you’ll see dates.

MORE THAN A TOUR: HOW CRUSH IS BUILDING ONE WORLD ACROSS FOUR CORE CITIES 🍊

CRUSH Magazine | Culture + Business | 2026–2027

Look at the CRUSH calendar from a distance and you’ll see dates.

Look closer and you’ll see the strategy.

Atlanta. Savannah/Tybee. Jacksonville. Miami.

These aren’t random places selected for isolated weekends.

They’re becoming four connected markets inside a larger CRUSH world.

The 2026–2027 season moves through Homecoming, Halloween, Spring Break, the Georgia coast, Memorial Day and Juneteenth—but underneath the events is a bigger objective:

Build CRUSH somewhere people can enter from multiple directions and still end up inside the same ecosystem.

CRUSH ISN’T JUST AN EVENT

Someone may first discover CRUSH through a festival.

Someone else through CRUSH Magazine.

Another person through music.

A model might enter through a photoshoot.

An artist through VERSUZ.

A basketball player through a 1v1.

A business owner through vending or sponsorship.

A fan through merchandise.

A creator through photography or video.

None of those entrances have to compete with each other.

They can feed each other.

That’s where CRUSH becomes more than a collection of brands.

It becomes a world.

ATLANTA: REACH

Atlanta gives CRUSH scale.

The 2026–2027 calendar brings the brand into the Atlanta market multiple times, beginning with the fall college run and returning again around Memorial Day weekend.

Atlanta creates access to an enormous network of music, entertainment, fashion, higher education, entrepreneurship and media.

For CRUSH Magazine, the city provides an almost endless supply of stories.

Artists.

Producers.

Models.

Athletes.

Students.

Designers.

Promoters.

Executives.

Entrepreneurs.

Creators.

Atlanta is where CRUSH can continue expanding its reach.

SAVANNAH + TYBEE: ROOTS

Savannah carries something different.

History.

CRUSH doesn’t need to manufacture a connection to the Savannah area.

It’s embedded in the story.

That makes Savannah and Tybee essential even as CRUSH expands into larger markets.

A brand can grow so aggressively that eventually it forgets what made people care about it in the first place.

CRUSH shouldn’t.

Savannah is where stories about history, people, family, culture, college life and the evolution of Orange Crush can live alongside whatever comes next.

Tybee gives that story its coastal setting.

Savannah gives it its people.

Together, they represent roots.

JACKSONVILLE: INFRASTRUCTURE

Jacksonville gives CRUSH something else:

room to build.

Halloween CRUSH Bonfire introduces an environment combining music, basketball, models, nightlife and media.

Crush Network Studios creates the possibility of continuing that work after an individual event ends.

Then CRUSH returns to Jacksonville around Juneteenth.

That creates a cycle.

Find talent.

Create content.

Publish content.

Develop relationships.

Produce events.

Create more content.

Return bigger.

Jacksonville can become a place where the CRUSH ecosystem isn’t merely activated for a weekend.

It can be worked on year-round.

MIAMI: EXPANSION

Miami represents another side of the brand.

Travel.

Water.

Fashion.

Luxury.

Spring Break.

International visibility.

Nightlife.

Beautiful locations.

Tourism.

Lifestyle.

CRUSH doesn’t have to abandon where it came from to enter environments like Miami.

The challenge is the opposite:

Bring the identity with us.

Orange should still look like orange whether the background is Savannah, Atlanta, Jacksonville or South Florida.

Miami represents expansion without losing identity.

FOUR CITIES. FOUR FUNCTIONS.

Put the pieces together and the map becomes clearer.

Atlanta — Reach.

Savannah/Tybee — Roots.

Jacksonville — Infrastructure.

Miami — Expansion.

Each market contributes something different.

That’s more powerful than trying to make every city perform the same role.

THE MAGAZINE CONNECTS EVERYTHING

CRUSH Magazine is especially important because media can travel where physical events can’t.

A festival ends.

An article remains searchable.

A photoshoot ends.

The images continue circulating.

An interview lasts 20 minutes.

A quote can be discovered months later.

A model works one weekend.

Her feature introduces her to people in another city.

An artist performs in Jacksonville.

Someone in Atlanta watches the clip.

A Savannah entrepreneur gets profiled.

Someone in Miami discovers the company.

Media connects the map.

MUSIC GIVES THE WORLD A SOUND

Then there’s music.

CRUSH events shouldn’t feel like a brand that happens to have an artist attached to it.

And CRUSH music shouldn’t feel disconnected from the experiences being built in real life.

They can strengthen each other.

Records can soundtrack festival recaps.

Songs can premiere around activations.

Performances can create content.

Album imagery can connect with CRUSH fashion and models.

Magazine stories can document the creative process.

Fans can discover the artist through the festival—and discover the festival through the artist.

That’s world-building.

MODELS GIVE THE WORLD FACES

Every recognizable cultural brand eventually develops recognizable personalities.

CRUSH has the opportunity to do that intentionally.

A model shouldn’t necessarily disappear after one shoot.

Bring her back.

Let audiences recognize her.

Give her interviews.

Take her to another market.

Put her in merchandise.

Pair her with artists.

Build editorial concepts around her personality.

Do the same with photographers, hosts, DJs, athletes and creators.

Eventually, people don’t only recognize the CRUSH logo.

They recognize the people inside the world.

MERCHANDISE MAKES THE WORLD PHYSICAL

Media can be watched.

Music can be heard.

Events can be experienced.

Merchandise can be carried home.

That gives CRUSH another way to connect individual activations.

The shirt somebody buys in Jacksonville can appear in a Miami photograph.

The accessory introduced during a model shoot can show up at Tybee.

A festival product can become part of everyday life.

The objective shouldn’t be to put a logo on random objects.

The product should feel like something that naturally belongs to the culture.

PHILANTHROPY GIVES THE WORLD PURPOSE

Growth also creates responsibility.

As the CRUSH platform expands, philanthropy can become a permanent part of the architecture rather than something added only when convenient.

Community initiatives.

Youth opportunities.

Creative development.

Educational support.

Entrepreneurial exposure.

Giving artists, models and creators access to opportunities they might otherwise struggle to reach.

A cultural platform becomes more meaningful when some of the value it creates circulates back into the communities helping create it.

THE REAL PRODUCT IS THE ECOSYSTEM

That’s ultimately where CRUSH is headed.

Not simply:

Come to our event.

But:

Read the magazine.

Hear the music.

Meet the artists.

Discover the models.

Watch the content.

Attend the festival.

Wear the merchandise.

Support the businesses.

Enter the studio.

Become part of the network.

Return next season.

Each piece should make the next piece stronger.

ONE ORANGE WORLD 🍊

The goal isn’t to build ten disconnected CRUSH businesses.

It’s to build one recognizable CRUSH universe expressed through different businesses and experiences.

Festival.

Magazine.

Music.

Media.

Models.

Merchandise.

Studios.

Sports.

Culture.

Entrepreneurship.

Philanthropy.

Atlanta.

Savannah.

Tybee.

Jacksonville.

Miami.

Different pieces.

One world.

And the 2026–2027 season is where more of those pieces begin appearing together in public.

THIS IS CRUSH. 🍊

CRUSH Festival × CRUSH Magazine

Music • Media • Models • Merchandise • Experiences • Community

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CRUSH ANNOUNCES 2026–2027 SEASON TOUR: FROM HOMECOMING TO JUNETEENTH

CRUSH isn’t waiting for summer.

The next CRUSH season begins this fall and keeps moving.

CRUSH Festival and CRUSH Magazine are launching a 2026–2027 run connecting college homecomings, Halloween, spring break, festival culture and some of the South’s most important celebration weekends across one season.

The journey begins in Georgia with stops surrounding Homecoming season in Atlanta, Athens, Savannah and Statesboro before CRUSH Network Studios brings the movement to Jacksonville for Halloween CRUSH Bonfire.

Then the temperature changes.

Spring 2027 takes CRUSH south to Miami before returning to Tybee Island in April, Atlanta for Memorial Day weekend and Jacksonville for Juneteenth.

Different cities. Different weekends. One CRUSH season.

FALL 2026

OCT 2 — Atlanta

OCT 3 — Athens

OCT 9–10 — Atlanta / Morehouse + Spelman

OCT 16–17 — Savannah

OCT 31–NOV 1 — Jacksonville / Halloween CRUSH Bonfire

NOV 6–7 — Statesboro

SPRING / SUMMER 2027

MARCH — Miami

APRIL — Tybee Island

MEMORIAL DAY — Atlanta

JUNETEENTH — Jacksonville

CRUSH Festival x CRUSH Magazine is building the season around the things that have always powered the culture: music, beautiful visuals, college energy, fashion, models, nightlife, basketball, media and unforgettable experiences.

This isn’t one weekend.

This is CRUSH Season.

2026 → 2027.

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