Ariel Hyatt is the founder of Ariel Publicity, a New York based digital PR firm who’s Cyber PR Campaigns place musicians and authors on blogs, podcasts, and Internet radio stations and helps facilitate authentic relationships with key Social Media makers and fans. Over the past 14 years Ariel Publicity has represented over 1,500 musicians of all genres.
Helping creative minds navigate the confusing world of Social Media and Online Marketing is her passion and several times a year, she leads sold-out online and in-person workshops for musicians and music industry professionals and her book: Music Success in Nine Weeks has helped hundreds of musicians do just that.
Her bi-weekly newsletter and weekly YouTube TV series “Sound Advice” has over 15,000 subscribers and she is regular blogger at MusicThinkTank.com
Ariel has been a guest speaker at SXSW, CMJ, The Future of Music, The ECMAs, NARAS, The BMI Music Panel Series, and The Taxi Road Rally, and dozens more.
She proudly serves on the boards of Sweet Relief Musicians Fund & SoundCtrl.
Sweet Relief is a non-profit that provides financial assistance to career musicians who are struggling to make ends meet while facing illness or disability.
SoundCtrl is a music and technology event platform for the convergence of music and digital media that hosts educational events and panels for music industry professionals.
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Ariel Hyatt founded Ariel Publicity, a digital PR firm who’s Cyber PR Campaigns place musicians on blogs and podcasts and facilitates authentic relationships with Social Media makers.
Her book Music Success in Nine Weeks has helped hundreds of musicians navigate the confusing world of Social Media and Online Marketing.
Follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cyberpr
Christina Duren – General Manager
Christina Duren started her music career as an intern at Island Def Jam where she spent a year in the Radio and Promotions/Publicity department. At IDJ she worked with Mariah Carey, Rihanna and Ne-Yo. From there she took her first real job at Shore Fire Media working campaigns for The Roots, and Heineken Red Star Soul Tour. Christina now acts as PR Director for Cyber PR and co-founder of Cyber PR Urban. Follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cyberprurban
Christopher Gesualdi – Marketing Director
Christopher’s job responsibilities include interacting with prospective clients, managing special projects, and continually tweaking the inner workings of the company. He graduated from James Madison University with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology (concentration in Behavior Analysis). Throughout his college experience, Christopher gathered an appreciation of how to fuse psychology, social media, and marketing to promote aspiring artists. After interning with the company, Christopher was hired as Ariel’s personal assistant, and was then promoted to Marketing Director soon after. During that time, Christopher crafted marketing plans for countless artists, consulted as a social media strategist, coordinated the company’s internship program, and worked on several internal systems projects. He has also participated on various panels related to PR/social media, most notably at a GRAMMY Career Day event in May of 2010.
Christopher resides in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and is the vocalist/lyricist for the band, Blue Chip Village.
Follow him on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cyberprmktg
Photo by Phil Hudson
Sara Dudine – Publicity Director
Sara is Publicity Director for Ariel Publicity. Sara first started working for Ariel Publicity in the summer of 2008 as a full-time intern. She continued on with Ariel Publicity after her internship as a Virtual Assistant while finishing up her senior year at Gettysburg College. She graduated from Gettysburg with a BA in both English and Business. Shortly after graduating from Gettysburg, she made the big move to New York City to take on the full-time position of Publicity Director. She now works hand-in-hand with Christina Duren, handling the day-to-day interaction with all clients. Follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cyberprpub
Phil Putnam – Sales Director
Phil Putnam began his relationship with Ariel Publicity in 2008 as an extremely satisfied Cyber PR Artist. Originally from Sacramento, CA, he released 7 albums of original songs while running Phil Putnam Public Relations before moving to New York City in January of 2009. Now living in Manhattan with his partner and his piano, he puts his skills to work at Ariel Publicity as the Client Services Director, ReviewYou Managing Editor, and blogger. He is a wordsmith. He smiths words.
Phil released his 8th album in May of 2010, also represented by Ariel Publicity, and has taken part in marketing campaigns powered by Topspin and crowdfunding projects with RocketHub.com. He is the author of the weekly blogs The In-Crowd: Crowdfunding In Action, a series that details the honest, gut-level reality of his crowdfunding project as he went through it, and Phil and the Blank, where he spills his best bits of wisdom and humor gathered over 10 years as an Artist, Businessman, and Publicist. Both can be read at www.arielpublicity.com/blog.
When not spinning words and whimsy, he runs, composes, reads, thinks, watches every episode of The Bachelor/Bachelorette/Bachelor Pad, and adores his stupendous staff at Ariel Publicity.
Follow Phil on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/PhilPutnamMusic
Enjoy his music at: http://www.philputnam.com - - http://www.itunes.com/philputnam
Carla Lynn Hall – Director of Online Courses
Another extremely satisfied Cyber PR client, Carla Lynne Hall is a musician and music marketing consultant based in NYC. As a musician, Carla’s style has been described as “Norah Jones meets Sade for tea on their way to visit The Beatles.” As a music marketing consultant, her mission is to make music and empower other musicians to reach their goals.
Carla has released three CDs on her own label, Moxie Entertainment, and has toured the world as a singer/songwriter and professional vocalist. She has also spent a number of years behind the scenes of the music industry, in music publishing, management, publicity, and radio promotion. Carla has given indie music lectures at many venues. including ASCAP, Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, The Indie Music Forum, and The Learning Annex.
As well as being the former music business columnist for Vibe Magazine, Carla has written articles for MusicDish.com and other publications around the world. She is the author of The DIY Guide to the Music Biz and Twitter for Musicians. Follow Carla on Twitter at http://Twitter.com/CarlaLynneHall
Enjoy her music at RockStarLifeLessons.com where she blogs about the life as an indie musician. | http://www.itunes.com/carlalynnhall