Ryan Kutscher

Co-Founder @ Dad Strength Brewing

About

After two decades of building brands for other people, I wanted my own. So I shut down a successful agency and went all in on an idea I couldn't stop thinking about. It's been humbling. I've learned more in three years than in the previous twenty. I'm building Dad Strength Brewing — America's first dedicated mid-strength brewery. Craft beer at 2.9% ABV, for people who love great beer and have a life to get back to. Every Friday I share what building this has actually looked like. Not advice. Just the story.

Country

United States

City

Washington

Industry

Marketing & Advertising

Skill

Brand launch, Writing, Social Media Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Social Media, Creative Strategy, Interactive Advertising, Creative Direction, Art Direction, Integrated Marketing, Advertising, Digital Strategy, Concept Development, Interactive Marketing, Outdoor Advertising, Interaction Design, Digital Marketing, Brand Development, Typography

Experience

Co-Founder

Dad Strength Brewing

2023-3 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

2 dads building America’s first dedicated MIDSTRENGTH craft brewery 🍺 2.9% ABV | 94 Cals | 100% DELICIOUS 📍 1000+ DC, MD, VA, NC, SC, TN, MI 🪪 21+

Founder

LAUNCH PARTY

2024-1 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

Austin, TX

We Launch Brands.

Founder

Circus Maximus

2013-5 - 2026-4 · 13 yrs

New York City

Circus Maximus is a marketing services collective founded by former Chief Creative Officer Ryan Kutscher and former co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Amalgamated Doug Cameron, and technology officer Craig Carey. The collective specializes in delivering clients with strategically-informed unconventional ideas. We pioneer Cultural Opportunism, growing brands and business by couching their opportunities in cultural contexts that insert them into the national and global pop-culture discourse. Our partners have developed a long list of successes in this space for brands including Burger King, Coca-Cola, Volkswagen, Method, Svedka, Smirnoff, Band-Aid, Macy's, FUSE network, FOX Sports, and more. Kutscher masterminded the Burger King “Whopper Freakout” campaign, praised by the Wall Street Journal for raising the company’s stock price. It also won the Grand Effie. The agency prides itself on effective creative. Kutscher is a three-time winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Advertising Festival—once for Method, once for VW, and once for Burger King’s ‘BK Games.’ As co-Chief Creative Officer of JWT NY, his ‘Magic Vision App’ campaign for Band-Aid recently won the Gold Lion at Cannes.