About ACE Media.
Innovative communications solutions for Kenya’s leading organizations. Boutique focus, continental impact.
We bridge the gap between corporate objectives and audience resonance.
Founded in 2011 as an outdoor boutique, ACE Media has grown into a trusted strategic communications partner with a strong core in Public Relations, Public Affairs, and Strategic Advisory. Our services now span transmedia, social listening and digital content creation, crisis management, corporate research and intelligence, paid media, and message training, among other key practice areas.
As the operating environment grows more complex, we get closer to our clients — offering inventive solutions for their most high-stakes reputational, business, and stakeholder challenges. Leaders don’t just need a safe pair of hands to execute on projects; they need an experienced partner who understands the cultural, social, technological, political, and economic dynamics shaping their world.
We work with decision-makers to build long-term strategic advantage in their sector. Through a vertically integrated, coordinated approach, we help CEOs and their executive teams anticipate, translate, and influence the media, legislative, regulatory, and stakeholder agenda — staying on the front foot, co-innovating, and executing at scale.
“Agility, innovation, and a results-driven mindset in an era of constant disruption.”
The ACE Media Manifesto
Six reasons clients trust ACE Media with their reputation.
We are a boutique strategic communications partner for Kenya.
We design solutions that directly align with business objectives.
Our team brings deep expertise in brand storytelling, stakeholder engagement, and specialized intelligence.
We operate a Digital First model anchored on audience insights and measurable KPIs.
We collaborate closely with clients through dedicated relationship teams.
We co-create strategies by integrating client and audience insights with our expertise.
Twelve disciplines, one integrated practice.
- —We work with your teams and key stakeholders to develop strategies from the bottom up — making choices on corporate goals, where to play and how to win.
- —We conduct belief audits to understand your strategic vision, obstacles, and core capabilities.
- —We create tested, validated, coherent and consistent messaging across all audiences that clearly communicates your brand vision, roadmap and how you intend to get there.
- —The machinations of parliament and the law are a constant business continuity threat.
- —With considerable practical experience of both, we work with your teams to align interests and develop proposals for new policies or changes to existing ones.
- —We undertake political research, draft written submissions, parliamentary questions and motions, to detailed submissions of evidence to select committees.
- —In the end, we enable your organisation to lead and influence specific industry affairs and key pieces of legislation where the company has significant interest.
- —Henry Kissinger once remarked: 'There cannot be a crisis next week.
- —My schedule is already full.' We prepare our clients to communicate effectively during crises — to manage, mitigate and recover — in ways that don't recognise schedules.
- —Our approach is not just about putting out the fire but managing all the communications ramifications of the crisis to protect or restore brand value.
- —Handling crises in the digital era is much harder, but that's when we step forward boldly.
- —Be seen, be heard and be trusted by those that matter most to your business or cause.
- —We provide strategic counsel and roll up our sleeves to help you build a credible reputation, leverage thought leadership, and influence change in the boardroom, C-Suite, shopfloor and marketplace through purpose-driven, evidence-based reputation strategy, agenda setting and opinion-shaping communications.
- —Preparing the CEO for the defining moment is a key requirement in our trade — orchestrating responses to criticism, advising on optics, showing up at issue platforms or during crises, dealing with the press, stakeholders and government, and conveying messages succinctly and effectively.
- —Media training, to us, is not about denying the public information or being defensive, but enabling executives to represent their organisations more effectively and honestly in an era of participatory journalism.
- —Our Digital First strategy taps into our enlightened understanding of how audiences consume their news and the workflows in today's legacy newsrooms.
- —Because audiences have shorter attention spans, we curate stories that are easy to access through the power of visual storytelling on digital and social media platforms.
- —We record, produce and release short, in-your-face content to cut through the noise and remain memorable.
- —From corporate conferences and product launches to high-profile galas, we deliver seamless end-to-end event management, including corporate photography and videography.
- —We design and execute bold, high-visibility branding campaigns in airports and outdoor spaces, ensuring your brand stands out in high-traffic environments.
- —Our writing services span corporate and marketing content, thought leadership, speeches, articles, reports, blogs, and ghostwriting.
- —We help you manage your company's long-term strategic community engagements to enhance your reputation, improve stakeholder relationships, mitigate issues, and build credibility and trust.
- —We go beyond CSR and humanitarian assistance to help companies design sustainability and community engagement strategies and partnerships that integrate nature into core business — source water protection, raw material sourcing, sustainable supply chains.
- —Our approach drives business results, delivers planetary goals, and builds resilience among local communities.
- —We maintain professional networks and high-level contacts, especially in government, where we gain access to unfiltered perspectives on issues important to your business or cause.
- —Depending on the stakes, our contacts will tell us things about your company or issue that they would otherwise not say to you directly.
- —We test the perceptions held of organisations by key stakeholders and audit the effectiveness of previous engagement efforts to reframe messaging and narratives.
- —In a complex and competitive operating environment, leaders need an experienced witness who has been in the stands when technocrats, business leaders and high-level political leaders make tough decisions.
- —We partner with law firms, tax consultants and M&A experts to render communications expertise to clients undergoing litigation or seeking business growth opportunities — with strategic advisory on key stakeholder, political, social, economic and regulatory research, local contact-building, risk assessment, policy monitoring, and partner due diligence.
Our methodology.
Digital First Thinking
Prioritizing digital channels to meet audiences where they are.
Data-Driven Strategy
Using measurable insights to guide every strategic decision.
Audience Insight
Deep understanding of cultural and behavioral dynamics.
Clear Messaging
Sharp, memorable content that cuts through the noise.