Quick answer: shakalakaa runs Hong Kong consumer brand accounts remotely — SEO, Google Ads, Meta Ads and GEO/AI search optimization — budgeted in HKD against published Hong Kong cost data (Google Search CPC commonly HK$2–95 depending on industry), with campaigns reviewed against the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance before launch. We do not have a Hong Kong office and don't claim one.
We're direct about what "serving Hong Kong" means here: this is a remote practice, run by the same team behind our Malaysia and Singapore work, not a Hong Kong office. What that team already runs are consumer brand accounts reported in HKD-native figures — treated as their own market with their own baseline, not a regional average bolted onto Malaysian numbers.
Hong Kong is a dense, high-CPC market by regional standards, with real regulatory guardrails of its own — the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance for anything touching personal data in targeted marketing, and the Undesirable Medical Advertisements Ordinance for anything health/medical-adjacent. Both apply regardless of where the agency running the campaign is based.
What we run for Hong Kong brands
The same core service lines as our other markets, budgeted and reported in HKD:
Compliance for Hong Kong advertising
Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO). Using personal data for direct marketing — including targeted advertising through social platforms, which the Privacy Commissioner has confirmed falls within scope — requires informing the data subject what data will be used, for what, and their right to opt out before the first use. We build consent and opt-out handling into lead-capture flows from the start, not after a complaint.
Undesirable Medical Advertisements Ordinance (Cap. 231). Health/medical-adjacent advertising in Hong Kong is restricted under a "negative list" of prohibited claims and conditions, enforced as a criminal (not just civil) matter. Any Hong Kong clinic or healthcare-adjacent account gets creative reviewed against this ordinance before launch.
HKD baselines, not converted ringgit. Google Search CPC in Hong Kong runs roughly HK$2–6 for F&B, HK$3–12 for e-commerce, HK$10–30 for healthcare, up to HK$45–95 for legal services (source, curated third-party data, not yet our own managed-account figures — verified 2026-07-30). We report Hong Kong performance in its own currency against its own published baseline, never a converted figure.