We're a modernly defined Advertising Agency and Branding Consultancy that leverages brand strategy and creativity as an ROI multiplier for our clients. Our clients range from big to small and everything inbetween. We use strategic and creative thinking to help solve hard business challenges by delivering on-brand strategically-driven results by thinking up things others don't.
Then we create these things* across many channels and put them in front of the exact people that you want to buy-try-love your thing.
And we do it collaboratively, on budget and at the speed of a social feed.
*We won’t take our ball and go home if you don’t like all the things we think of :)
Strategy, research, branding, content creation, digital and social. Here are just a few examples of work that we’ve created at various budget levels for some of our B2C and B2B clients. Scroll down, have a click around or contact us to see more using the form below. Our teams equally excel at strategizing, researching, creating, shooting and executing brands in B2C, B2B and D2C.
From Brand Strategists, Creative Directors, Art Directors, Writers, Designers, Developers to Account Managers, we share a love for discovery and creating strategic work we care about to help build our clients brands and businesses.
Founding partners Michael Ancevic, Steve Mietelski have been friends, a practicing creative team and managing SVP Creative Directors for over 15 years at tier-one creative agencies. Michael and Steve combined with partner George Rogers lead a team that creates a unique flat-structured agency based on the philosophy of Magic Meets Reality where clients have direct collaboration with top-level experienced strategic and creative talent. The 3 partners have had key roles at industry-leading agencies like MullenLowe, WPP, Team Detroit, Chiat/Day, Vidy, VICE Media, Hal Riney, Cramer Krasselt and McCann Erickson. They’re creative adults who’ve consistently produced innovative, business-driving, award-winning integrated creative work for local, national and global brands.
Photo from left to right: Michael Ancevic Founding Partner/President, George Rogers Partner/Chief Operating Officer, Alana Carpenter Creative Director, Steve Mietelski Founding Partner/Chief Creative Officer, Julie Coulton Account Director
Outside the bubble thinking.
Our creativity knows no boundaries. We offer decades of strategic and creative experience driving next-level engagement across channels with audiences in a spectrum of categories. Healthcare, real estate, automotive, travel and hospitality, lifestyle, fashion, high-tech – you name it. A beautiful recipe of knowledge fueling innovation.
Creative flexibility.
We fit in the compact car space for a reason: it’s simply more efficient. Our goal is to make sure the right resource is assigned to each task at hand—no matter the client category, project, or budget.
A true partner.
We play nice in the sandbox. We strive for seamless collaboration and integration with our clients. We value transparency to create a level of trust that helps us all work better and succeed more often.
Magic Meets Reality means that we bring brands to life in many ways, including: Master Branding and Re-Branding, Brand Planning and Brand Strategy, Brand Identity Look, Tone and Feel, Websites, Microsites, Advertising Campaigns, Digital Advertising Campaigns, Sales Activation Tools, Content Creation and Content Strategy, Earned Media Placement, Influencer Strategy, Buzzworthy Stunts and Events, Long and Short Form Brand Video and Campaign Content, Photography and Art Direction , SEO and SEM, Traditional and Digital Media Buying and Analytics.
Here are just a few of the B2C and B2B brands we’ve had the honor of collaborating with recently. We've created a wide variety of strategic creative work in many different categories across a wide range of media channels.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes Art is knowing which ones to keep
- Richard Johnson -
After more than a year of lockdowns and economic uncertainty, salons and spas are now up and running, and the ‘GO’ campaign symbolizes the upbeat and positive mood of the industry to put COVID behind them and go now just for recovery, but growth and greatness.
Some nice coverage on our recent win on India-based client Zenoti.
We are excited to get this campaign out into the world, literally! New work for our India-based client Zenoti.
We are excited to have our campaign for White Elephant Resorts featured on Pile and Company’s Agency Compile travel issue.
In his new role, George oversees client relations and spearheads business development at The Fantastical, reuniting with the agency’s founders: President and Founding Partner, Michael Ancevic, and Chief Creative Officer and Founding Partner, Steve Mietelski. Photo from left to right: Michael Ancevic Founding Partner/President, George Rogers Partner/Chief Operating Officer, Alana Carpenter Creative Director, Steve […]
The Fantastical, the strategic and creative agency based here, announces that former WPP [NYSE: WPP] Global Business Director and Chief Client Officer, George Rogers, is joining as Chief Operating Officer and Managing Partner.
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