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Meet the Big Mouth: Justin Loeber
Prior to founding Mouth Digital + Public Relations, Justin Loeber has held many corporate executive and managerial roles, including Senior Vice President, Executive Marketing and Publicity Director for Regan, which was an imprint of HarperCollins (News Corporation). He is a former Vice President, Director of Publicity for Atria, an imprint of Simon and Schuster (Viacom); Publicity Director for Ecco (HarperCollins); and Director of Publicity for Running Press Book Publishers. Loeber was one of the first publicists hired at Broadway Books (Bertelsmann), was a publicist at William Morrow (Hearst), and started his publishing career at Villard (Random House).
Over the course of his career, Loeber has restructured four publicity departments, managed groups of up to 35 employees, and was responsible for publicity and marketing budgets exceeding $1M. He has created nationally recognized campaigns in practically every subject area—for celebrities, fashion icons, sports stars, designers, novelists, doctors, lawyers, animal lovers, non-profit organizations, restaurateurs, a presidential candidate, and even one prime minister.
Loeber has spearheaded publicity campaigns for Michael Jordan, Lawrence Taylor, Cindy Crawford, Olympia Dukakis, Tommy Lee, Pamela Anderson, Anthony Bourdain, Ewan McGregor, Tom Perkins, Gloria Allred, Frank Warren, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Reverend Bernice King (Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter), Kevin Liles (Executive Vice President, Warner Music Group), Marlo Thomas, Wanda Sykes, movie producer Lynda Obst, David Margolick, LeRoy Neiman, Blair Underwood, Jon Gruden, Leon Uris, Joyce Carol Oates, Diane McKinney-Whetstone, Jodi Picoult, Jack Newfield, Lawrence Schiller, Tony Brown, Celia Cruz, Bill Blass, Dr. Andrew Weil, Lloyd Boston, Dr. Dean Edell, Peter Singer (father of the modern-day Animal Rights Movement), and Aron Ralston (the young Colorado-mountain climber whose story was depicted in “127 Hours,” starring James Franco). Loeber was also instrumental in brokering two book deals at publishing houses he worked for: John Leguizamo’s, Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends (Ecco); and for Patrik Henry Bass and Karen Pugh’s, In Our Own Image: Treasured African-American Traditions, Journeys & Icon (Running Press Book Publishers). Loeber also worked on the controversial book, Frozen – My Journey into the World of Cryonics, Deception, and Death, revealing the awful truth behind the condition of sports legend Ted Williams’ remains as well as the terrible secrets inside the world’s leading cryonics facility. The book received enormous attention including the front page of the New York Daily News.
On the first anniversary of 9/11, Loeber was the only publicist at ground zero in Shanksville, PA, where he represented New York Times reporter Jere Longman and his book, Among the Heroes. He also managed national publicity for Singapore’s Senior Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who shared his political manifesto with the U.S., and orchestrated a publicity tour for Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt whose book, Until Death Do Us Part, exposed the tragic underground affiliation between her country’s government and its drug cartels. When Betancourt was later abducted by FARC kidnappers in the jungles of her homeland, Loeber secured national media for her family, pleading for her release. This PR campaign sparked the creation of the award-winning documentary and HBO film “Missing Peace” by Victoria Bruce and Karin Hayes. (Ingrid Betancourt was rescued from her captors in July 2008.)
A highly creative campaigner, Loeber is skilled at brainstorming ideas with corporate sponsors and has worked closely with major brands such as Nike, Wrigley’s Doublemint Gum, Lava-Simplex Internationale, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Outside magazine to name a few. Prior to his career as a corporate publicist, Loeber promoted and managed restaurants, including the famous Triplets Romanian Steakhouse in New York City–the subject of the critically-acclaimed documentary, Three Identical Strangers. In the 1980s Loeber was an international solo pop recording artist and songwriter, discovered by English music legend, Gary Numan. As Numan’s first signed talent on his roster, Loeber was Numan’s opener on the Berserker Tour; which played across the UK. Loeber comes from a real estate family and buys, renovates, interior designs and sells property–two of which were featured in the New York Times Real Estate Section. Loeber is also the author of Get Out of Your Own Way Guide to Life: 10 Steps to Shift Gears, Dream Big, Do it Now! (Mango); which was a Number 1 Audible, and Amazon best-seller. Justin conceptualized, pitched, and sealed the deal for the “Psychic Connection with Deborah Graham” radio show, which debuted on SiriusXM. A new version of the show, which he co-hosts, is now a podcast — streaming on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and more.