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United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi

Marketing, engineered.

360 marketing for brands in the Gulf. Strategy, content, stores, and the tools behind them, built in-house in Abu Dhabi.

Ten years of brand strategy, creative direction and marketing across the Middle East.

A marketing agency with an engineering background.

About

Bring us the problem. If the answer exists we already have it, and if it does not, we build it. In English, French and Arabic, from Abu Dhabi.

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About

627 is a marketing agency with an engineering background, licensed in Abu Dhabi and working across the UAE and the wider Gulf. We do strategy and creative, and we also do the code, the automation and the AI that most agencies brief out. Bring us the problem: if the answer exists, we already have it. If it does not, we build it.

Our clients are mainly beauty, fragrance, skincare and lifestyle brands, including global houses working through regional distributors, alongside e-commerce and B2B businesses in the Gulf. We adapt global campaigns for the region rather than translating them, and we write in English, French and Arabic in-house.

AI is built into how we produce, not bolted on as a service line. It is what lets a small team turn around campaign assets, store builds and reporting at a pace that would otherwise need a much larger one, with the same care on every deliverable.

How we work: one point of contact, a written scope before anything starts, and a weekly status note once it does. Retainer or project, the process is the same.

Based in
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Working across
UAE, GCC and wider MENA
Languages
English, French and Arabic
Sectors
Beauty, fragrance, skincare, lifestyle, e-commerce, B2B
Working with
Brand and marketing teams, regional distributors, founders

Expertise

01Strategy and audits

Where a brand stands, where the gap is, and what to do about it in the Gulf specifically. Written so a marketing director can act on it the same week.

  • Brand and social audits
  • Competitive benchmarking
  • Content strategy
  • Go-to-market for the GCC
  • Channel and platform strategy
  • Marketing consulting and retained advisory
02Brand and creative direction

Identity systems and campaign creative that hold up in Arabic and English, on a shelf in Dubai Mall and on a phone screen.

  • Visual identity
  • Brand guidelines
  • Campaign concepts and key visuals
  • Art direction
  • Packaging and POSM design
  • Retail and in-store display design
03Content production

Stills, video and copy that ship on schedule. Global assets adapted for the region rather than translated, with the cultural read done in-house.

  • Photography and video
  • Product and still-life
  • UGC and creator content
  • Motion and animation
  • Copywriting in English, French and Arabic
  • Arabic transcreation and cultural adaptation of global assets
04Social media management

Always-on channels run end to end: calendar, production, community, creators, paid, and a monthly report your management will actually read.

  • Always-on channel management
  • Content calendars
  • Community management
  • Influencer and creator programmes
  • Paid social
  • Performance reporting and analytics dashboards
05E-commerce and web

Shopify stores and brand sites built to sell in the UAE and GCC: payments, VAT, shipping and tracking configured properly, not left for launch day.

  • Shopify store design, build, setup and migration
  • Landing pages and brand sites
  • Product page and conversion optimisation
  • Payments, shipping and tax configuration
  • Email and lifecycle flows
  • Analytics and tracking setup
06AI consulting and development

Engineering-grade AI in marketing operations: faster production, less manual work, and dashboards that replace the spreadsheet nobody trusts.

  • AI readiness audits
  • Workflow automation and internal tooling
  • AI-accelerated content production
  • Custom dashboards and reporting systems
  • Team training and enablement

Work

A luxury fragrance brand, global

Social media and content, since 2024

Always-on social across markets: strategy, creative direction, AI-assisted production, creator sourcing and monthly reporting to global and regional stakeholders.

A dermatological skincare brand, MENA

Social media management

Content calendars, Arabic copy, creator content and performance reporting for the regional channels, with the brand's medical claims kept exact.

A global beauty group, UAE retail

Campaign production

A cross-brand PR kit with e-commerce banners, plus a branded short-link and QR system so influencers could share retailer pages in one tap.

A colour cosmetics brand

AI-accelerated production

Campaign imagery and video generated and retouched in-house with a two-pass AI workflow, matched to the brand's existing key visuals.

Ten direct-to-consumer brands, UAE

E-commerce

Shopify stores designed and built, with payments, VAT compliance, email flows, pixel tracking and low-stock alerts configured before launch.

A beauty distributor, UAE

Retail design

Multi-brand floor-standing display units and counter displays for a matte lip range, from concept to print-ready artwork.

Most of our work sits under client confidentiality, so clients are described rather than named here. Ask us about a specific sector and we will walk you through the relevant work in a call.

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