How Ryan Reynolds' Marketing Agency Keeps Making Viral Hits Ryan Reynolds' marketing agency, Maximum Effort, regularly delivers viral hits. The trick? Bring people together.
By Jason Feifer
This story appears in the March 2021 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
The scene opens in hell. We see flames. We hear screams. Then the camera closes in on Satan himself — big horns, giant pectorals, bright red skin — as he slumps over on his throne. His phone buzzes. He glances at the screen. "You're a match!" it says. Satan perks up, eyes wide in amazement. The dark lord, it appears, is looking for love on Match.
Cut to: a bridge underpass, in a park on Earth. There are trees. It is quiet. Satan waits to meet his date. A woman approaches. "Hi, Two-zero-two-zero?" Satan says to her. "Please," she replies, "call me 2020." Then it's montage time: Satan and 2020 picnicking in an empty football stadium, doing yoga in an empty gym, stealing toilet paper and hanging out by a Dumpster fire, and generally setting their hearts aflame as they watch the world burn.
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