01
The Brief
Understanding before answering.
Stakeholders, audiences, competitors and analytics — a deep listen that becomes a positioning brief every later decision answers to.
Paid Media · Dubai
Every dirham traced to a result.
Full-funnel buying with creative testing, tracking and weekly read-outs that actually mean something.
DAO Marketing runs paid media for brands in Dubai and the UAE — Google, Meta, TikTok and programmatic, bought and optimised by the same team that built the brand, so the ads never feel disconnected from the site they send people to.
Deliverables
Google Ads, Meta & TikTok Ads, programmatic display, creative testing
Approach
Full-funnel buying, budget shifted toward what converts
Timeline
Campaigns live in 1–2 weeks
Investment
AED 5,000 – 15,000/month management fee + spend
What's included
Bought, tested and reported on — properly.
Google Ads
Search, Shopping and Performance Max, structured around actual purchase intent.
Meta & TikTok
Full-funnel campaigns from awareness through retargeting, with creative built for each stage.
Programmatic
Display and native buying for brands that need reach beyond the walled gardens.
Creative testing
Multiple variants running from day one — budget follows the numbers, not a favourite ad.
How we work
04 Phases
From brief to lift-off.
Four overlapping phases — discovery flows into design, design into build, and build into the work that lifts the number. No silos, no relay-race handoffs.
02
The Craft
Strategy, brand and product in lockstep.
Identity, narrative and interface designed in parallel — one team, one direction, no handoffs that lose the thread.
03
The Build
Engineering that holds up at scale.
Next.js, Shopify, headless commerce and bespoke stacks — production-ready code, content models that flex, infrastructure that ships.
04
The Lift
Launch, measure, then move the number.
Launch is the start of the work. Conversion testing, paid media, lifecycle and SEO compound the line that matters.
Selected work · Dubai
Latest cases
Sama Al Tariq
Concept Interiors
FAQ
Common questions
Our management fee typically runs AED 5,000–15,000 a month, separate from ad spend — usually structured as a flat fee or a percentage of spend once budgets scale past a certain point.
There isn't a hard minimum, but campaigns need enough budget to actually exit the learning phase and generate real data — we'll tell you honestly if a budget is too thin to work with before taking it on.
Google, Meta, TikTok and programmatic display, chosen per campaign based on where the actual buyers are, not run everywhere by default to look thorough.
Multiple ad variants run in parallel from day one, and budget shifts toward what's actually converting — not a single hero ad we hope performs.
Weekly read-outs with the numbers that matter — cost per result, not just impressions — plus a monthly strategy review.
Testimonials
Their words, not ours.
DAO Marketing Management understands our brand DNA and turns it into authentic, premium storytelling.
Leontine
The team turns complex briefings into creative, customer-focused solutions every time.
Jurgen
Thanks to their work we have a site that reflects exactly where our company is headed.
Robbert
DAO Marketing Management understands our brand DNA and turns it into authentic, premium storytelling.
Leontine
The team turns complex briefings into creative, customer-focused solutions every time.
Jurgen
Thanks to their work we have a site that reflects exactly where our company is headed.
Robbert
DAO Marketing Management understands our brand DNA and turns it into authentic, premium storytelling.
Leontine
The team turns complex briefings into creative, customer-focused solutions every time.
Jurgen
Thanks to their work we have a site that reflects exactly where our company is headed.
Robbert
DAO Marketing Management understands our brand DNA and turns it into authentic, premium storytelling.
Leontine
The team turns complex briefings into creative, customer-focused solutions every time.
Jurgen
Thanks to their work we have a site that reflects exactly where our company is headed.
Robbert
Solution-oriented, exactly what you want as a client — a genuinely great collaboration.
Bert
Compliments on the redesign — only positive feedback, and it converts far better.
Rick
Creative, energetic and bold. They connected our goals to the right audiences.
Jenno
Solution-oriented, exactly what you want as a client — a genuinely great collaboration.
Bert
Compliments on the redesign — only positive feedback, and it converts far better.
Rick
Creative, energetic and bold. They connected our goals to the right audiences.
Jenno
Solution-oriented, exactly what you want as a client — a genuinely great collaboration.
Bert
Compliments on the redesign — only positive feedback, and it converts far better.
Rick
Creative, energetic and bold. They connected our goals to the right audiences.
Jenno
Solution-oriented, exactly what you want as a client — a genuinely great collaboration.
Bert
Compliments on the redesign — only positive feedback, and it converts far better.
Rick
Creative, energetic and bold. They connected our goals to the right audiences.
Jenno