Ecommerce Advertising in the UAE
Dubai and Abu Dhabi behave differently to any Western market on both calendar and payment method, and accounts run on Western assumptions leak money quietly.
What’s actually different here
Served, not occupied
Ramadan and Eid are the peaks
The demand calendar does not run on a Western Q4. Ramadan changes both when people shop and what time of day they convert, and Eid is the spike most imported media plans miss entirely.
Cash on delivery changes the unit economics
COD is still widely expected, and it brings a refusal rate that sits between your reported revenue and your real revenue. Any ROAS target that ignores COD refusals is measuring orders, not money.
The working week
Weekend pacing is different. Budgets set to a Monday-to-Friday rhythm spend against the wrong days.
We don’t have an office in UAE. We buy media into it from Canada, and we’d rather say that plainly than list an address we don’t occupy.
What we run in UAE
Services
Meta ads
Media buying with the creative attached, run on contribution margin instead of platform ROAS.
Read moreGoogle ads
Search, Shopping and Performance Max run as a demand-capture layer, not a second Meta.
Read moreCreative production
Statics, UGC and video built to a testing structure, not to a mood board.
Read moreEnquiries
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