Lion & Lion celebrates its digital marketing agency transformation completion with a new look, new position and new wins
Lion & Lion has completed its transformation phase, unveiling a new brand positioning, visual identity and client wins across markets. Under the leadership of Chief Executive Officer Fredrik Gumpel and Chief Creative Officer Cheelip Ong, the agency initiated a transformation exercise in 2019 to adopt a more flexible and integrated approach that remains faithful to the agency’s core commitment to having a creatively-driven, digital-first mindset.
Lion & Lion also developed a new tagline, ‘Made to Impact’, which highlights the positive effect its work has on client brands, audiences and the industry as a whole.
Enhancing digital marketing service offerings with an impactful business model
Following the transformation, Lion & Lion has redefined its positioning in the industry as an agency that emphasises holistic strategic thinking, ideas-led solutions, and a flexible business model customised for the digital age.
A core team of experts in the interconnected fields of strategy, creative, social, content, media, and commerce help drive the related brand or marketing strategy, while local integrated solutions pods service the clients in each market. The result is a highly agile setup that is able to meet the business needs of clients from end to end while ensuring versatility and creativity when engaging audiences in different markets.
A new visual identity to reflect the transformation
Lion & Lion also refreshed its image to visually articulate the agency’s new positioning and emphasise its creatively-driven offering. The new corporate colours of black and red evoke a sense of boldness that suggests the willingness to push boundaries and challenge conventions. These relate back to the Lion & Lion tagline of ‘Made to Impact’, in which the agency aims to make a positive change in all of its activities, from elevating a client’s brand to building an inclusive and supportive company culture.
Gaining the industry edge in digital media marketing with new client partnerships and deeper capabilities
Lion & Lion’s new “creatively driven, digital-first” value proposition as well as its customisable delivery model has allowed the agency to broaden their client portfolio as well as secure a number of new wins both in their local markets and even more across Southeast Asia, as several regional digital partnerships have been formed. Multi-market and multi-brand engagements are becoming the key segment for the agency with more than 50% of the clients across the group falling into these categories. Currently, the agency is doing work in more than 15 markets and has recently added several prominent brands to its portfolios such as Taco Bell, Carlsberg, Kellogg’s, and La Roche Posay.
Fredrik Gumpel, Chief Executive Officer, Lion & Lion explained that Lion & Lion’s decision to adopt a customisable service model and increase experience in managing regional scopes as well as capability investments (both people and technology) has given the agency a competitive edge that has led to a series of new client partnerships.
"With technologies evolving at a fast pace, our role as a digital agency has ensured that we are in a position to take advantage of any developments in the communications industry. We have been getting more clients on a regional or global level over the past year, thanks to our expertise in navigating the digital and social space. Nevertheless, we maintain readiness for what the future may hold, especially in the fields of tech, commerce and communications, so we will always be at the forefront of the industry,” he said.
Synergistic team of digital marketing consultants
Cheelip Ong, Chief Creative Officer, Lion & Lion stated, “In Southeast Asia and beyond, we are seeing changes in how brands and marketing teams relate to their agencies. Not only do we need to adapt our products to cater to the ongoing digital acceleration, but we also need to evolve our service offerings to fit the brands’ needs. Our way of working here at Lion & Lion allows clients the benefit of having a synergistic team of functional practice leads handling their business requirements across multiple channels and markets, with a digital-first framing. It also helps that we are experts in understanding the evolution of digital – from social, to eCommerce, to the potential opportunities brought forth by the metaverse, thereby giving us the knowledge to develop proactive and innovative strategies that are hyper-relevant for the present and future-ready.”
"We are confident in our new service model and the trust our clients have placed in us. Their success drives us to push ourselves even harder as we continue to evolve with the industry. I am very excited to lead Lion & Lion in this new phase of our transformation, and look forward to sharing our good work over the coming year,” added Fredrik.
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