One of the most successful PR agencies in the country in the last 5
years has accomplished new milestones and seems destined to reaching greater heights
in the years to come.
ComCo Southeast Asia is in
“Blazing Sapphire” as it enters its 5th year with renewed energy
through a brand refresh, awards from esteemed local and regional communications
and marketing organizations, and major account wins.
Among the many milestones
it is celebrating is a refreshed brand story chronicling the company’s journey
from a kick-start-up to a premier multi-awarded regional boutique
communications agency serving enterprises and organizations in the Philippines
and across the Southeast Asian region, continued recognition for its communications
and marketing campaigns, and new client partners.
Trailblazing.
Transformative. Limitless.
United as a coalition of
brand architects, inspired storytellers and communication trailblazers, ComCo
SEA is kicking off its anniversary celebration with the Agency’s brand evolution
- the transformation of its symbol and promise, and the retelling of its brand
identity and story. ComCo Southeast Asia unveils its icon - a mothership
housing the company’s great works and individuals with immense talent, meaning,
passion and dreams, and taking off to conquer new horizons. The mothership is a
vessel, a second home, a safe zone, a creativity playground, and a jumping
board that empowers the ComCo Squadron to do more groundbreaking projects and
make a difference along the way.
ComCo’s logo transforms
from speech bubble into a digital screen, which beams the image of the mothership,
and reflects the more modern, more complete and more integrated way of
communicating in a world that has evolved. It shows the advancement, digital
and multi-touchpoint integration, and completeness of the emerging global disciplines
the Agency champions - New PR and Smart Social. It represents the company’s outlook
of being a global independent communications agency working with a network of
independents in Southeast Asia and across the regional centers of the world, in
providing integrated communications solutions and services to brands, companies
and organizations of all shapes and sizes.
Whether online or on-site,
ComCo SEA is ready to soar higher with its unique brand of #MeaningfulStorytelling,
which is also the Agency’s new mantra, to ignite brand love, social change,
talent growth and regional alliance.
The company’s focus
remains to Ignite Brand Love, Ignite Social Change, Ignite Talent and Ignite
Regional Collaboration, while ComCo’s corporate culture is now reinforced
through the four Camp ComCo mentorship houses lifted from the team’s spirit
animals which are valuable but endangered species inhabiting Southeast Asia and
the Pacific, showing the Agency’s love for the environment. ComCo Southeast
Asia upholds Unity Drawn by Individual Stories and Team Journey as represented
by Hawksbill, Rebellion Against the Status Quo and Monotony to Pursue
Excellence as symbolized by Bearcat, Commitment to Advocacies that Matter and
taken to Heart as signified by Flying Fox, and Equal Access and Opportunity for
All as reflected by Whaleshark.
Wins in Awards and
Accounts
In its 5 years, ComCo Southeast
Asia has reaped over 76 awards and is celebrating more wins in 2021 from both local
and international award-giving bodies such as IABC Quill Awards, MarCom Awards
in USA, Mumbrella Awards, Marketing Event Awards in Singapore, Campaign Asia
Pacific’s PR Awards Asia in Hong Kong, Spikes Asia, Anvil Awards, Asia Pacific
Stevie Awards, Kidlat and ARAW Advertising Values Awards. The company recently
received 13 metals from the prestigious IABC Quill Awards along with brand
partners Eastern Communications, Jobstreet, World Vision and WWF-Philippines, including
the recognition of Agency of the Year 2nd Runner-up. Recently, ComCo
Southeast Asia also emerged as regional finalist in the Marketing PR Awards in
Singapore for Best Use of Micro / Niche Influencers for its Write to Ignite
Blogging Project.
More than the awards, ComCo
SEA also continued to strengthen its client portfolio, winning major accounts
in recent agency pitches such as Xiaomi, Unilab Foundation, Defensil isopropyl
alcohol, Sunlife ASC, and Lamoiyan Corporation’s Gumtect toothpaste.
Blazing Sapphire 5-Part
Celebration
To mark its 5th year in
the business, ComCo SEA is inviting its friends and stakeholders to join its
year-long 5-part celebration dubbed as “Blazing Sapphire”. First in the 5-part
series is the kick-off which included the virtual townhall and digital
unveiling of ComCo SEA’s brand evolution, while the summer would mark the
inauguration of the Camp ComCo Alumni Society “Unity Games”, where the
graduates of the company’s mentorship program from House Bearcat, Flying Fox,
Hawksbill and Whaleshark will get reunited, which also serves as the
celebration of the company’s strong alumni culture. Meanwhile, bloggers,
micro-influencers and content creators can sharpen their storytelling skills
anew as ComCo SEA opens season 2 of the award-winning and much talked about
“Write to Ignite Blogging Project”.
In “5 Gifts to the
Community” of Citizen ComCo, the Agency’s advocacy program, ComCo SEA aims to
give back and pay forward to different sectors - children, youth and education;
heritage, culture and tourism; wildlife, biodiversity and environmental
conservation; micro, small and social enterprises; and Southeast Asian
integration. Afterwards, stakeholders and partners can look forward to the
culmination of the celebration through the “Blazing Sapphire” anniversary main
event.
ComCo Southeast Asia’s
Regional Integration and Chief Executive Director and Co-Founder Ferdinand
Bondoy shared, “We did not
expect to grow this fast as we are just enjoying the journey of working
together again (founders are former teammates who did landmark projects
together) and growing the team with a unique, non-conformist and progressive agency
culture that we’ve always dreamed of.
Then we just realized that there are so many milestones to celebrate and to be
thankful for already. In 5 years, we’ve already taken care of 61 brands or
accounts; 76 local, regional and international awards from real, authentic and
impactful campaigns in collaboration with existing and actual clients; mentored
65 apprentices from 14 cycles of the Camp ComCo Mentorship Program; and
established a network of independents in Southeast Asia primarily in Indonesia,
Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.”
Mr. Bondoy added, “While
the team, or ComCo Squadron as we fondly call it, has accomplished many things
in a short period of time, we believe that there is a lot more to do. And as we
kick-start our 5-part 5th anniversary celebration, we are also jumpstarting
our 10-year masterplan which is set to even revolutionize the game and do more
for our society, as we work on projects and initiatives with people, brands and
organizations that share the same vision.”
Watch
ComCo SEA’s Blazing Sapphire anniversary video here: https://fb.watch/56kB9j1xeW/
To
know more about ComCo Southeast Asia, visit www.comcosea.com. Follow them on social media: facebook.com/comco.southeastasia on Facebook, linkedin.com/company/comco-hq and @comco_sea on both
Instagram and Twitter.
