Meet the Circus 🎪

We’re a little bit of everywhere. Our home base is New York City, where we're a David in the land of advertising and marketing goliaths. But we're also in Colorado, Florida, India, Brazil, the UK, the Philippines and beyond. We have a global footprint of creative specialists working 24/7.

Founder

Ryan Kutscher founded Circus Maximus in 2013. He is a world-renowned creative leader and brings his continued experience, and ongoing learning as a founder, CEO, and creative director to Circus Maximus. He is a writer by trade, ridiculously fast, to the point, and prolific. His passion is building brands, telling unique stories, and creating scalable systems that helps brands grow long term.

Mission

We exist to help brands get their stories straight and always tell them interestingly. We’re an innovative Ad Agency with a multicultural perspective. Our experience is your competitive advantage. We are entrepreneurs, branding, and advertising specialists led by a constant team of proven professionals. We are a distributed force of specialists that adapt to solve the changing challenges facing brands.

Values

✍️ If it isn’t interesting, it doesn’t matter.

✍️ Diversity is our strength.

✍️ Integrity above all.

✍️ Always find a better way.

Who we help

We partner with both brands we believe in. Fortune 500 companies hire us for a shot in the arm. We deliver the speed, agility, creativity, and professionalism they need to help them disrupt themselves. Scale ups hire us because we help them see past the fog of entrepreneurialism, and the fleeting returns of performance tactics to plot a chart to continued growth for their brands.

How we help

We have a stepwise brand process that takes its inspiration from the Japanese concept of Ikigai, which loosely translates as “reason for being.” Your entire company will get the same shared understanding of your brand story why it’s interesting, and how to tell it. Our process is proven. Our brand partners grow on average 200% a year (or more).

Our Awards

We also win awards, which gives us the chance to do some amazing things.

3️⃣ Webby Awards

2️⃣ AdAge Campaigns of the Year

2️⃣ Small Agency of the year

2️⃣ Cannes Lions

1️⃣ The Andys

1️⃣ Effie Awards

1️⃣ One Show Award