Blazing Sapphire: ComCo Southeast Asia Celebrates 5th Year

With a refreshed brand, awards from renowned regional and local communication and marketing organizations, and significant account gains, ComCo Southeast Asia is entering its fifth year with a new vigor.

Trailblazing. Transformative. Limitless.

A refreshed brand story chronicling the company’s journey from a start-up to a premier multi-awarded regional boutique communications agency serving enterprises and organizations in the Philippines and across the Southeast Asian region is among the many milestones it is celebrating, as is continued recognition for its communications and marketing campaigns and new client partners.

ComCo Southeast Asia unveils its icon: a mothership housing the company’s great works and individuals with enormous talent, meaning, passion, and dreams, and taking off to conquer new horizons.

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 demonstrates the advancement, digital and multi-touchpoint integration, and completeness of the Agency’s emerging global disciplines-New PR and Smart Social. It furthers the company’s goal to act as a global communications agency by collaborating with affiliates around the world and SouthEast Asia to develop integrated solutions and services for all brand, corporation sizes and types.

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.

In addition to the awards, ComCo SEA has continued to expand its client portfolio, landing major accounts such as Xiaomi, Unilab Foundation, Defensil isopropyl alcohol, Sunlife ASC, and Lamoiyan Corporation’s Gumtect toothpaste in recent agency pitches.

Blazing Sapphire 5-Part Celebration

Blazing Sapphire is the first installment in a five-part series that began with a virtual townhall and the digital unveiling of ComCo SEA’s brand evolution, while the summer will see the launch of the Camp ComCo Alumni Society “Unity Games,” where graduates of the company’s mentorship program from House Bearcat, Flying Fox, Hawksbill, and Whaleshark will be reunited, which also serves as celebration of the company’s strong alumni culture.

ComCo SEA aims to give back and pay forward to various sectors through Citizen ComCo’s advocacy program, “5 Gifts to the Community,” including children, youth, and education, heritage, culture, and tourism, wildlife, biodiversity, and environmental conservation, micro, small, and social enterprises, and Southeast Asian integration. Following that, stakeholders and partners can look forward to the celebration’s culmination with the “Blazing Sapphire” anniversary main event.

“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.”, said ComCo Southeast Asia’s Regional Integration and Chief Executive Director and Co-Founder Ferdinand Bondoy.

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 5^th 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.”