BABY ARIEL Interview- TIME Magazine's 25 Most Influential People
Baby Ariel – a.k.a. Florida-based 17-year-old Ariel Martin – is by any estimation a wide-reaching worldwide phenomenon. She first began garnering epic online attention in 2015 with a series of videos on musical.ly and by 2017 had quietly built a cumulative audience of 35 million-plus followers across a range of social media platforms. In addition to her ever-growing popularity, Baby Ariel has been feted with a long list of honors and major media coverage. The winner of “Choice Muser” at two consecutive Teen Choice Awards, she has been profiled on CBS’ 60 Minutes, CNN, and ABC’s Good Morning America, garnered the Wall Street Journal’s prestigious “Innovator Honor,” starred on the cover of Billboard, and was named to both TIME’s “25 Most Influential People on the Internet” and FORBES’s “Top Influencers 2017: Entertainment” listings. What’s more, Baby Ariel has earned a seeming endless string of award nominations, spanning the iHeartRadio Music Awards, People’s Choice Awards, Streamy Awards, Shorty Awards, and most recently, Telemundo’s Premios Tu Mundo Awards.