Accenture Song closed acquisitions of Bangkok creative studio Rabbit's Tale and Jakarta brand agency Romp within weeks of each other, marking the first time the consulting arm has moved this quickly in Southeast Asia. Financial terms were not disclosed. Rabbit's Tale is Accenture's first Thailand acquisition; Romp is its second in Indonesia after taking brand consultancy Brand New View in 2022. The firm now operates creative studios in six ASEAN capitals.
Rabbit's Tale employs 47 creatives and strategists and has worked with Thai Union, Siam Piwat, and Central Group on retail-hospitality campaigns. Romp, founded in 2016, counts Unilever Indonesia and Gojek among clients and has 34 staff in Jakarta and Bali. Both shops will retain leadership and brand names under the Song umbrella, a departure from Accenture's UK approach where it retired the Unlimited brand entirely in 2024 after acquisition. The regional structure suggests Accenture values local signaling in markets where multinational clients still defer to indigenous creative judgment.
The moves fit a larger pattern. Accenture Song has closed 19 acquisitions since 2021, including Paris motion-design studio N O U S and German experience firm Kolle Rebbe. The Southeast Asia pair stands out for speed and adjacency: both firms serve consumer brands scaling across ASEAN, and both sit in cities where luxury hospitality groups are accelerating development. Bangkok saw $2.1 billion in new hotel investment in 2023; Jakarta's luxury retail square footage grew 18% year-over-year. Accenture is positioning to own the brand-development layer for groups that historically hired WPP or Publicis legacy shops.
The timing also reflects a shift in how family offices and private-equity-backed brands are buying creative services. Regional holding companies like Cheil and Hakuhodo remain strong in Korea and Japan but have struggled to move quickly in Thailand and Indonesia. Accenture Song offers the same multi-market coordination with faster procurement cycles and tighter integration into enterprise-software rollouts. That matters when a hospitality group is launching a new brand across four countries in 18 months and needs identity, digital experience, and Salesforce configuration from one vendor.
Operators should watch whether Accenture integrates these studios into its Salesforce or Adobe consulting practices within six months, which would confirm the play is enterprise-led rather than pure creative. Luxury developers in Manila and Kuala Lumpur are likely next targets; both markets saw creative-shop valuations rise 22% in 2024 according to M&A advisors, and both have under-50-person independent agencies with multinational rosters. If Accenture moves there by mid-2025, the regional buildout is a rollup, not opportunism.
The firm now controls more ASEAN creative talent than any consulting competitor, and it did so without touching Singapore, where WPP and Omnicom still dominate pitch lists.