Digital Turtles is a digital media agency with studios in Sri Lanka and Singapore. It sits alongside Anthem in the group as a sister company.
The work is growth with a measurable outcome. Strategy, creative, technology, and performance sit in one room. They make connected work with an audience, a purpose, and a number attached.
The public site is digitalturtles.com.
How they work
Four principles run through every brief:
- Strategy before execution
- Creative with purpose
- Data that drives decisions
- Partnership that creates progress
What they offer
Six practices, used in the mix the brief needs:
- Digital strategy: audits, brand and communication plans, audience and competitor work, channel strategy, campaign planning, KPIs
- Social media management: planning, creative, copy, community, listening, and monthly reporting
- Content and production: social, short-form video, commercials, photography, motion, design, and copy
- Performance marketing: Meta and Google, leads, awareness, conversion, retargeting, creative testing
- Web and digital experiences: sites, landing pages, UI/UX, development, activations, registration platforms, analytics
- Emerging technology: AI-assisted creative, AR and VR, 3D environments, installations, immersive learning, custom products
Work
Selected projects from their public case file:
- Ceylon Furniture: an immersive visualisation so customers could place pieces in a room, instead of guessing from photography
- Cyber Hero: a free educational 3D mobile game on digital safety, built with their game arm WhimsicalWits, Digitally Right (Bangladesh), and Internews, launched at the American Center in Colombo
- Dialog Axiata: a VR Awurudu village at Colombogama, built with Anthem Studios
- Joseph Fraser Ninewells: a Meta Quest 3 patient-orientation journey through arrival, suites, and consultation
- Ambuluwawa: a 360° campaign for the 30th anniversary, across digital, PR, TV, radio, and live production
- The Urban Collective (UAE): launch and growth for a women-led lifestyle brand: storytelling, Meta ads, site, SEO
- Candela Lighting Design (UAE): LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, and thought-leadership for an architectural lighting studio
- Dtále Aesthetic Clinic, Chef Chathurika, Bellissima Cakes: content systems for clinics, personal brands, and patisserie
Programmes
Work they run themselves, not only for clients:
- Creator Incubator (from 2022): workshops in English, Sinhala, and Tamil, mentorship, community, and a USD 200 microgrant. Their own reporting: 100 creators trained; later expanded to the Central Province
- Digital Journalism Academy: an eight-month programme with support from the Australian Government: ethics, verification, multimedia, and public-interest stories
- Women in Motion: 3D animation and game-development training with the U.S. Embassy, in Colombo, Kandy, and Matara