CEO and founder of Chatterbox
Meet Amy Bartko
Amy Bartko has been building visibility for lifestyle, baby, parenting, beauty, and wellness brands for 25 years. She founded chatterbox PR & Marketing in 2013 on one belief: that great brands deserve to be seen, and that honest PR beats overpromising every time. She still believes that on every single campaign she runs.
She has been doing celebrity outreach and product placement in TV and film since before influencer marketing had a name. The relationships she has built over two decades are personal, trust-based, and not something that transfers to a database or a junior team. Amy is directly involved in every campaign, every step of the way.
Her clients have been featured in Forbes, Good Morning America, The Today Show, The New York Times, and People. Their products have landed in the hands of A-list celebrities. Their brands have appeared on the big screen and across major studio productions. None of that happened by accident.
What drives her is simple: the moment a founder sees their brand in the right place for the first time and realizes people are paying attention. That moment never gets old.
Let's be honest about PR
PR Isn't Magic.
It's a Formula.
“Before you book a call, Amy wants you to know exactly what you’re getting into. Because the founders and thought leaders who win with PR are the ones who understood this going in.“
- PR builds visibility. That means your product in the hands of the right people, your name in Forbes, your voice on the right podcasts, your brand on the big screen.
- Visibility builds credibility. That’s what makes someone trust your product before they’ve ever touched it, trust you before they’ve ever met you, and choose your brand before they’ve ever visited your website or seen your ad.
- Credibility builds profitability. Customers choose you over the competition, clients pay the higher rate, retailers take the meeting, investors pay attention. That’s the sequence PR is built to create.
What PR doesn’t do is blow up your Shopify dashboard the week a feature drops. If you’ve been told otherwise by someone else, that’s worth talking about.
Why Chatterbox?
The Relationships. The Strategy. The Follow-Through.
All four under one roof
Celebrity gifting. Product placement in TV and film. Traditional media relations. Podcast bookings. Most agencies do one or two of these well. No boutique agency does all four with the founder personally involved in every campaign and two decades of relationship equity behind it.
Relationships built early
Amy started doing celebrity outreach and influencer marketing in 2008, before influencer marketing was even a phrase. The celebrities, managers, and talent in her network respond because they trust Amy personally. That kind of relationship equity takes decades to build and cannot be replicated by anyone starting from scratch.
Amy on every campaign
No junior handoffs. No account manager who learned your brand last Tuesday. Amy is the strategist, the relationship, and the point of contact on every retainer, every gifting campaign, every placement pitch. When clients need something handled, it gets handled.
