Marketing Agency for Ecommerce & Platform Brands in Malaysia.
shakalakaa plans ecommerce and SEO, ads and live selling as one programme for brands on Shopee, Lazada, TikTok Shop and their own store.
shakalakaa is an ecommerce marketing agency Malaysia marketplaces, platforms and D2C brands use for mega-sale campaigns (9.9, 11.11, 12.12), KOL, KOC and affiliate programmes, live commerce, TikTok Shop and performance media. We run campaigns for Shopee, and for Swiss Thomas, monthly TikTok Shop GMV grew 6.2×.
Trusted by Malaysian GLCs, listed groups and platforms
Client media spend managed
All accounts, 2025 · ~70% Malaysia · USD 1 = RM 4.30 (Dec 2025)
- 2,400+
Creative assets produced in-house
All client accounts, 2025
- 70+
Accounts under management
As at September 2026
- 5
Markets served
Malaysia · Singapore · Hong Kong · Australia · Taiwan
- 4.2×
Return on ad spend, e-commerce accounts
E-commerce accounts, Jan–Dec 2025
- -38%
Cost per qualified lead since onboarding
Lead-gen accounts, first 90 days vs Dec 2025
Where an ecommerce enabler Malaysia brands hire runs the store and fulfilment, we run the marketing.
Why e-commerce brands need performance-first marketing
Generic agencies optimise for traffic.
E-commerce lives and dies on ROAS. Every campaign decision — creative, audience, bid strategy, landing page — has to be measured against the revenue it actually generates, not clicks or reach.
Platforms we manage
Meta Ads
Facebook and Instagram Shopping campaigns for product discovery, retargeting abandoned carts, and driving repeat purchases.
Google Shopping
Search, Shopping and Performance Max campaigns capturing high-intent buyers at the moment they search for your products.
Shopee & Lazada
Marketplace listing optimisation, in-platform advertising, campaign management and live selling on Shopee, Lazada and TikTok integrated with your overall strategy.
TikTok Shop
Short-form video commerce and TikTok Shop campaigns reaching a younger, discovery-driven audience at scale.
What e-commerce brands achieve
Revenue Growth
Revenue growth achieved by e-commerce clients within 12 months of full-channel campaign optimisation.
ROAS
Average return on ad spend across Meta Ads and Google Shopping for established e-commerce campaigns.
Days to Peak ROAS
Full funnel optimisation including retargeting and audience refinement typically takes 90 days to reach peak efficiency.
Monthly Orders
Monthly order volume threshold at which full multi-platform campaign management becomes maximally effective.
Work we can show

Swiss Thomas
Home appliances · TikTok Shop, Live selling6.2× monthly GMV · Jan–Aug 2026
GMV Max and Spark Ads, bundle and listing optimisation, a sample-seeding creator programme and a live demo studio.Swiss Thomas
Home appliances · Meta Ads, Creative5.8× Meta revenue · Jan–Aug 2026
Advantage+ Shopping, catalogue retargeting, the Conversions API and an in-house UGC creative studio.
Activ (Respack)
Senior care e-commerce · Meta Ads, Creative5.0× Meta revenue · Jan 2024–Aug 2025
Advantage+ Shopping, caregiver carton bundles, catalogue retargeting, the Conversions API and an in-house video studio.More case studies (7)

RaeLele
Consumer electronics · TikTok Shop, Creators5.4× monthly GMV · Apr–Dec 2025
TikTok Shop run end to end: GMV Max and Spark Ads, a creator affiliate programme, daily live selling and mega-sale operations.
MANSPOT
Men's grooming · TikTok Shop, Live selling4.7× monthly GMV · Jan–Aug 2025
Video and Product Shopping Ads, creator Spark Ads, a creator seeding pipeline and in-house live shopping.SuperDNA
Genetic testing · SEO+280% non-branded organic visitors
Direct-to-consumer DNA-kit sales and clinic and pharmacy partner acquisition in a regulated diagnostics category.Activ (Respack)
Senior care e-commerce · SEO+290% non-branded organic visitors · Jan 2024–Aug 2025
Bilingual caregiver keyword mapping, reviewed care guides, product and FAQ schema and faster mobile pages.
Lifnex
Audio e-commerce · Urbanista and JVC · Web development, Shopify31 → 98 mobile Lighthouse score · custom Shopify theme
A custom Shopify theme: native Liquid in place of app scripts, product specifications rendered from metafields, and Core Web Vitals work on every template.
Ruby Cell
Skincare · Meta Ads, Video, Social media4.6× Meta return on ad spend · Q1–Q3 2024
Studio video of the mist device in use, bilingual application demos, social media management and a three-stage Meta funnel with WhatsApp closes.
VellGoood
Health and skincare · Natural Options · Meta Ads, Shopee Ads4.1× monthly Shopee store GMV · month 1 to month 6
Meta video and Collaborative Ads into the Shopee app, Shopee Search and Discovery ads with negative keywords, and bundle and voucher retention.E-commerce marketing Malaysia, in depth
The supporting detail behind each section of this page, by topic. 10 topics
Multi-platform approach for Malaysian e-commerce
Key takeaway: E-commerce marketing in Malaysia requires a multi-platform approach — Meta Ads for product discovery, Google Shopping for high-intent buyers, and marketplace optimisation for Shopee and Lazada.
Scope depends on catalogue size and channel mix, and across our e-commerce accounts in 2025 return on ad spend was 4.2× (Meta and Google Ads, purchase events only).
- A campaign that drives 10,000 visits and zero profitable orders is a failure, no matter how good the traffic report looks.
- Malaysian e-commerce is also uniquely fragmented. Your customers are on Shopee and Lazada, in Facebook and Instagram feeds, watching TikTok, and searching Google — often for the same product across all of them in a single week.
- A single-channel campaign leaves money on the table; a multi-channel campaign with no unified tracking wastes budget on overlapping audiences and double-counted conversions.
- We build campaigns around your product catalogue, margins, and customer lifetime value
- — not vanity metrics. That means knowing which SKUs carry the margin to sustain paid acquisition, which are loss-leaders that earn their keep on the second purchase, and where each ringgit of ad spend is best deployed across the funnel.
- Email and WhatsApp automation turn one-time buyers into repeat customers — the single cheapest revenue an e-commerce brand can earn.
- Most brands over-invest in prospecting and under-invest in retention, then wonder why their blended ROAS keeps falling as they scale.
- We balance the funnel: enough top-of-funnel to keep new customers flowing, aggressive retargeting to convert warm traffic cheaply, and retention flows that lift lifetime value so you can afford to bid more for that first sale than your competitors can.
- Every stage is tracked to revenue and margin, and budget shifts to wherever the next ringgit earns the most — not to whichever channel had a good week in the dashboard.
- Each channel is optimised individually but orchestrated as one unified commerce strategy, so your marketplace and own-store efforts reinforce each other instead of competing.
- The right mix depends on your products and margins. Impulse and lifestyle products thrive on TikTok Shop and Meta discovery; considered, high-ticket purchases reward Google Shopping and Search where intent is highest; commodity products where price is the deciding factor need sharp marketplace optimisation on Shopee and Lazada.
- We do not push every client onto every platform — we deploy budget where your specific catalogue converts.
Our results
Marketplace growth for Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop brands
What we run for marketplace-scale brands: in-platform ads, live commerce sessions, a monthly content calendar and the campaign operations behind each mega sale on the mega sale calendar. shakalakaa runs campaigns for Shopee. Our published TikTok Shop results are below.
Marketplace work for large brands
For brands selling at scale on Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop, the marketplace is a channel with its own media, content and calendar.
Brands usually come to us for one of three jobs: a marketplace marketing agency for Shopee and Lazada, a TikTok Shop agency in Malaysia, or a mega sale campaign agency for 9.9 to 12.12.
- We run all three as one plan, so a Shopee marketing agency brief and a TikTok Shop brief share the same creative, creators and reporting, with live commerce sessions and the Malaysia mega sale calendar setting the dates.
- Fit depends on catalogue depth and stock capacity to absorb a session-driven demand spike, and it doesn't suit every product line on this page equally.
- See live commerce for the full honest filter, session economics and compliance detail, or model your own numbers with the live commerce ROI calculator.
- We also close the loop that most agencies ignore: blended ROAS across all channels versus platform-reported ROAS. Meta, Google, TikTok and the marketplaces each claim credit for the same sales, so their dashboards always add up to more revenue than you actually made.
- We reconcile against your real store and marketplace figures so the number you act on is the number in your bank account.
- We work on the brand side: in-platform ads, listing and store optimisation, live commerce sessions, a monthly content calendar and creator content, planned together rather than bought from three vendors.
- The creator side — KOC seeding, TikTok Shop creator affiliates and live selling — runs as one programme on our KOL and creator marketing page, with named results.
- The same team produces UGC for paid Meta and TikTok ads, and health, cosmetic and supplement claims are checked against NPRA notification before a creator posts. Talk to us about your store. Brands setting up commission-based selling can start with our affiliate program guide.
- The calendar drives the plan. Campaign peaks at 9.9, 10.10, 11.11 and 12.12 need stock, vouchers, live sessions, creator posts and paid traffic lined up weeks ahead, then a clean read afterwards on what each peak returned. Our Malaysia mega sale calendar lists the dates we plan around.
- The same team runs the Meta and Google demand generation that feeds the store, so marketplace results and off-platform spend are reported on one set of numbers.
- Brands looking for a TikTok Shop marketing agency get content, LIVE sessions and ads run as one plan, measured against sales rather than views. Search campaigns are run by our Google Ads agency in Malaysia team, and paid TikTok by our TikTok ads agency team.
- Shopee is one of our largest clients, and the marketplace work on this page is the same work we do for platform and marketplace brands. The case studies we can publish are listed on our case studies page.
- Large brand or platform company? See how we work with enterprise clients.
Ecommerce SEO services for marketplace and own-store brands
Shoppers search Google, Shopee and TikTok for the same product, and now ask AI assistants which one to buy. Our ecommerce SEO covers category and product pages, product schema and feeds, and marketplace listings, planned as one keyword set.
How to compare ecommerce SEO companies
- Do they work on marketplace search as well as Google?
- Are product and category pages fixed at template level, not one page at a time?
- Are results reported in organic orders rather than traffic?
How to increase online sales
For brands asking how to increase sales online, whether on their own site or asking how to increase Shopee sales, the usual problem is that the store, the marketplace listings and the ads are run by different people with different numbers.
Full-funnel commerce
From top-of-funnel awareness through retargeting to post-purchase upselling, we architect the complete customer journey. Prospecting campaigns find new buyers who have never heard of you. Retargeting campaigns recover the 70% of shoppers who add to cart and leave.
Every platform, one strategy
Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram Shopping), Google Ads (Search, Shopping, Performance Max), TikTok Shop, Shopee and Lazada — we manage campaigns across every platform where Malaysian customers actually shop, including buyers who cross the border to compare.
Shopee Live, TikTok LIVE & Lazada Live
Live selling on Shopee, Lazada and TikTok is the operating layer of the same marketplace practice covered on this page — run as scheduled sessions with their own run-of-show, inventory and reporting, not a separate content offering bolted on beside it.
We track revenue, not clicks
Advanced conversion tracking, server-side events for accuracy in a post-iOS-14 world, ROAS reporting, customer acquisition cost and lifetime value analytics. You see exactly how much revenue each campaign generates — down to the product and platform level.
Where we work
E-commerce is borderless, but your team, warehouse and customers are not.
We work with online brands headquartered across Malaysia — including regulated-health-product ecommerce categories such as consumer diagnostics, genetic testing kits and licensed health brands with a D2C storefront — and run campaigns that reach shoppers nationwide and across the region.
- Kuala Lumpur
- Petaling Jaya
- Subang Jaya
- Shah Alam
- Klang Valley
- Penang
- Johor Bahru
Singapore brands: see our Singapore page.
What's included
Our e-commerce marketing programme covers: Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram Shopping), TikTok Ads for TikTok Shop, Google Shopping, marketplace optimization, conversion rate optimization, product feed management, retargeting, and performance reporting. Everything integrated with SEO for long-term organic growth.
Platforms we manage
Email & WhatsApp
Post-purchase retention and reactivation sequences that maximise customer lifetime value and repeat purchase rate.
SEO & Content
Long-term organic growth through product SEO, category page optimisation, and content that drives consistent search traffic.
Keep exploring
Frequently asked questions
How do marketplace brands split budget between Shopee, TikTok Shop and their own site?
Marketplace brands split budget by role: Shopee and TikTok Shop capture existing demand around campaign dates, while the brand’s own site builds margin, first-party data and repeat purchase.
Brands with a physical showroom or pickup point in a specific city also pair the borderless commerce campaign with a city-local build
- — SEO in Penang or Google Ads in Penang for island-based warehousing, and SEO in Johor Bahru or Google Ads in Johor Bahru where cross-border Singapore fulfilment is part of the model.
- Strategy, creative production, campaign execution, and revenue reporting — all under one roof.
- We also structure product answers so ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews can cite the brand; see AI search optimisation. Results are reported as organic orders and revenue, not rankings alone.
- Our published example is Activ (Respack): caregiver-search SEO for a senior-care ecommerce brand.
- The fix: one catalogue plan across the website and marketplaces, ads measured on purchase events only, creative refreshed monthly, and a retention flow for repeat buyers. Across our e-commerce accounts in 2025, return on ad spend was 4.2× on purchase events. See performance marketing, content creation and web design for Shopify and WordPress builds.
- The split is reviewed every 90 days, shifting toward the site as email, retargeting and organic search start to carry repeat orders at a lower cost per sale.
- Proof: Swiss Thomas: 6.2× monthly GMV · Jan–Aug 2026.
How much does e-commerce marketing cost in Malaysia?
E-commerce scope is driven by product catalogue size, the number of ad platforms in the mix, marketplace optimisation depth (Shopee, Lazada, TikTok Shop) and feed-management complexity, with ad spend billed separately from management. Book a scoping call and we quote against your specific catalogue and revenue target.
Which platforms do you manage?
Meta Ads, Google Ads (including Shopping and Performance Max), TikTok Shop, and marketplace platforms like Shopee and Lazada. We recommend the best mix based on your products and audience.
Can you help with Shopee and Lazada?
Yes. We optimise product listings, manage in-platform advertising, and integrate marketplace performance data with your overall marketing strategy.
How do you measure success?
Return on Ad Spend (ROAS), customer acquisition cost (CAC), and revenue attribution by channel. We provide monthly reports that show exactly how much revenue each campaign generates.
How long before we see sales?
Paid campaigns typically generate sales within the first 2 weeks. Full optimization including retargeting and funnel refinement usually takes 2–3 months to reach peak ROAS.
More questions (6)
Should I sell on marketplaces or my own store?
Most Malaysian e-commerce brands should do both, but for different reasons. Shopee and Lazada give you built-in traffic and buyer trust, which is ideal for discovery and commodity products — at the cost of platform fees and no customer data.
Your own store (Shopify, WooCommerce) keeps margins and customer relationships in your hands, which is essential for retention and lifetime value. We help you use marketplaces to acquire and your own store to retain, rather than treating them as either-or.
How is ad spend set for e-commerce campaigns?
E-commerce ad budget is scoped against product catalogue size, average order value, target order volume, ROAS target, campaign platforms (Meta + Google + marketplace + TikTok), and creative-refresh cadence — one figure does not fit every catalogue.
Derive the budget your economics support: enter your AOV, target order count and ROAS into the free break-even CPL calculator and the CAC-LTV calculator. Management fees are billed separately from ad spend, and both scale with your catalogue and revenue targets.
Do you work with e-commerce brands outside Kuala Lumpur?
Yes. Because e-commerce is location-independent, we work with online brands based anywhere in Malaysia — Klang Valley, Penang, Johor Bahru and beyond — as well as Singapore. Campaigns are set to reach buyers nationwide or regionally depending on where you ship, and everything is managed remotely with regular reporting calls.
Do you run live selling on Shopee, Lazada or TikTok?
Yes — live selling on Shopee, Lazada and TikTok sits inside the same marketplace practice covered here, run as scheduled sessions with their own economics rather than a one-off content shoot.
See the live commerce management page for the full run-of-show, compliance and reporting detail, and our mega sale calendar for the seasonal dates that actually drive session cadence.
How do marketplace brands in Malaysia grow Shopee and TikTok Shop GMV?
Marketplace brands grow GMV by planning ads, creator content, live selling and search as one programme around the 9.9 to 12.12 mega sales, with every channel feeding the same product listings. shakalakaa runs this for brands selling on Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop;
for Swiss Thomas, monthly TikTok Shop GMV grew 6.2×.
Can one team run several brands or marketplaces for a group?
Yes. Each brand keeps its own Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop plan, ad accounts and report, and the group gets one monthly summary. Own-store sales are sent back to Meta through the Conversions API, so marketplace and own-site budgets are judged on revenue.






