Ryan Kenton Hertel: Creative Partner and Product Builder

Ryan Kenton Hertel (known online as @heyitskenton) is a brand designer, content creator, and digital product builder based in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He works directly with founders and teams to build businesses people remember, and is the founder of Socialocca, a product studio building software, intelligent systems, and digital infrastructure for modern businesses and creators.

His portfolio includes ventures such as Watchrr, an uptime and outage monitoring platform; Pudding, a content provenance platform where creators anchor their posts on blockchain; Relay, a multi-stream Twitch viewer; and Glyph, dynamic digital display boards, along with a growing suite of products designed to make online systems more useful, more structured, and more creatively driven.

Ryan's entrepreneurial path began in entertainment and digital media, where he launched his first management company at 17. That early work in music, promotion, and online communities evolved into branding, websites, and digital systems, eventually giving rise to Socialocca in 2017. What began as a marketing-focused business has since grown into an independent product studio centered on software, automation, and digital experiences, with Ryan leading the design and launch of each product from concept through execution.

His work across digital campaigns for businesses and creators has generated tens of millions of engagements, and his insights have been featured in national and local outlets including The Washington Post, Yahoo Finance, U.S. News & World Report, and ABC News.