Ariel Martin

Ariel Martin is a Creator on the platform “musical.ly” which she discovered in May 2015 and began creating lip-synching videos for fun, sharing her videos with friends and collaborating with new friends through the app. Over the past year and a half, Ariel—now 16 years old—has acquired over 20M supporters on musical.ly and has since expanded to launch channels across YouTube (2.2M), Instagram (7.1M), Twitter (652k), Snapchat, and Facebook (280k), amassing a total following of over 30M supporters. She has been featured on the cover of Billboard magazine, as well as on 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, CNN, and Rolling Stone to name a few. Ariel also champions an anti-bullying campaign - #ArielMovement – which inspires her supporters to stay confident in who they are and provides advice on how to combat bullying. This movement can be found on her website, babyariel.com, along with Ariel’s very own clothing line, Honey, and her emoji app, Arielmoji.

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