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Media Catalyst

Service 02 — Media

Paid ads that are judged on leads, not reach.

Meta, Google, TikTok and LinkedIn campaigns built for UAE and GCC buyers. We rebuild the account structure, produce the creative in-house, and report on the cost of a qualified lead rather than the price of a click.

01 — The problem

Where paid budgets go missing.

Four patterns we find in almost every account we audit, in roughly this order.

01

Optimised for the wrong event

Campaigns bidding on link clicks or page views, so the platform delivers people who click and never enquire.

02

No creative pipeline

The same three ads running for eight months. Cost per lead climbs every week and nobody has anything new to swap in.

03

Broken tracking

Conversions firing twice, or not at all. The platform optimises against numbers that were never true.

04

Nothing after the click

Traffic lands on a homepage with eleven form fields and no reason to trust you. The ads were never the problem.

02 — What we do

Four moves, in order.

  1. 01

    Fix the tracking before the ads

    Nothing else is worth doing until the numbers are real. We rebuild conversion tracking end to end so the platform is optimising against events that actually happened.

    • Server-side and pixel events verified
    • Lead quality passed back from your CRM
    • One source of truth agreed with your team
  2. 02

    Rebuild the account structure

    Most accounts are too fragmented to learn. We consolidate, set the right optimisation event, and give each campaign a single job to do.

    • Campaign consolidation and budget logic
    • Audience and exclusion hygiene
    • Bidding set to qualified leads
  3. 03

    Put a creative pipeline behind it

    Creative is the lever that still moves cost per lead. We produce ads in batches in-house, test them in a fixed rhythm, and retire them before fatigue costs you money.

    • Monthly shoot feeding every platform
    • Structured testing, one variable at a time
    • Refresh cadence set to fatigue, not the calendar
  4. 04

    Report on money, then move it

    Weekly optimisation, monthly review against the targets we agreed before starting, and budget moved to whatever is working — including away from us, if that is the answer.

    • Shared live dashboard, open any day
    • Monthly review with the strategist who runs it
    • Budget reallocated on evidence, not habit

What this looks like in practice

+186%

more qualified leads for a Dubai retail group in five months — same monthly budget, rebuilt campaign structure, and a booking flow that finally closed.

−34%

Cost per lead

3.4×

Return on ad spend

5 mo

To get there

Worth doing if

  • You have at least AED 15,000 a month to put behind media
  • Someone answers enquiries the same day they arrive
  • You know roughly what a customer is worth to you

03 — Questions

About
paid media.

Do you take a percentage of ad spend?

No. Our fee is flat, so it does not go up when we spend more of your money. Media budget is paid by you directly to the platforms, so you own the accounts and can see exactly where it went.

Who owns the ad accounts?

You do, always. We work inside your accounts under our own access. If we part ways you keep the account, the data and the creative.

What is a realistic starting budget?

Around AED 15,000 a month in media for most sectors. Below that there is not enough data for the platforms to learn quickly, and everyone ends up guessing.

Do you produce the creative too?

Yes, in-house. Photography, short-form video and UGC-style ads. It is the reason our accounts hold their cost per lead rather than drifting upwards.

Can you work with our existing agency?

We can, if the split is clear. Usually we take media and creative while they keep the site, or the reverse. What we will not do is share responsibility for the same number.

Often paired with

All services →
05 Content & Video The creative pipeline that keeps campaigns from fatiguing. 06 Web Design & Development Landing pages built to convert the traffic you're paying for. 01 Marketing Strategy Deciding what the budget should be before you spend it.

Send us the ad account.
We'll tell you what's wrong.

Free, thirty minutes, and you keep the findings whether you hire us or not.

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