DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

The Ask

The Ask

DigitalOcean is a hosting & cloud service provider, building a global community of people driven to build in the cloud. DigitalOcean gained momentum as the "developer's playground" by empowering individuals who turn their ideas into reality. The brand needed to evolve beyond a developer-only perception and reposition itself as the cloud platform for growing small and mid-size businesses—without losing credibility with its core audience.

Year

2022

Industry

Cloud Computing & IaaS

Scope of work

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Creative direction

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Branding

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Strategy

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Campaign Development

Agency

Grizzly

The Ask

DigitalOcean is a hosting & cloud service provider, building a global community of people driven to build in the cloud. DigitalOcean gained momentum as the "developer's playground" by empowering individuals who turn their ideas into reality. The brand needed to evolve beyond a developer-only perception and reposition itself as the cloud platform for growing small and mid-size businesses—without losing credibility with its core audience.

Year

2022

Industry

Cloud Computing & IaaS

Scope of work

/

Creative direction

/

Branding

/

Strategy

/

Campaign Development

Agency

Grizzly

The Answer

The Answer

The Answer

I worked closely with leadership to understand where the company had been and where it wanted to go. From those conversations, I shaped the strategic promise Get growing and led our team in rebuilding the brand around it. We unified the visual language, clarified how the company talks about itself, and created tools that worked across product, community, and marketing.

The Results

The Results

The Results

DigitalOcean emerged with a cohesive, growth-ready brand—one that speaks to developers and SMBs, strengthens loyalty, and creates clearer pathways for product adoption and expansion worldwide.

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