Creative mind. Marketing instinct. A slightly unreasonable imagination.
Here’s my story ↓
The way I work brings the creative and commercial sides of a brand into the same conversation.
My work starts with a fascination for people: what catches their attention, what earns their trust and what makes them choose a brand. Those questions became the foundation of my approach to marketing and content.
Across 11 years, I have brought together strategy, paid advertising and lead generation. I see an ad as part of a journey: a clear offer, relevant creative, a useful landing page and a sales team ready for the conversation.
I’m Ahmed Sharbal, an Egyptian creative, marketer and founder of Sharbal Studio. My work connects Dubai and Toronto, alongside remote collaboration with brands in other markets. Working in Arabic and English means thinking about the audience and context, not just translating the words.
I combined my marketing experience with a growing practice in film, AI and CGI. Here, a product can have an entire visual world, a message can become a story, and the format and channel follow the purpose of the project.
Companies and brands I have worked with across my creative and marketing journey.
Brands and businesses across our experience.
From property to retail, media and beyond.
Advertising and marketing budget managed for the business.
Generated through the integrated campaigns managed in that role.
Business sales supported by marketing and lead-generation activity; a shared team outcome.
Al-Azhar University · 2009–2013
Credential evaluated by World Education Services (WES) for Canada.
Golden Visa holder in the creative content category.
Adobe Photoshop · Premiere Pro · Canva · CapCut · Sora · Runway · Midjourney · Google Flow & Veo · Higgsfield AI
HubSpot · Brokerpad · Zapier · Slack
Landing pages, retargeting, creative testing, reporting and SEO fundamentals.
Audience and offer development, campaign planning, lead generation, performance reviews and a more considered enquiry journey.
Concepts, hooks, scripts, storyboards, creative direction, editing, colour finishing and sound design.
Photoreal and imagined films, product worlds and visual campaigns that combine supplied assets, compositing and AI production.
Short-form video, Reels, creator-style UGC, product imagery, carousels, Stories, ads, founder content and landing-page assets.
Meta, Google, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn and Apple Search Ads each have a different role. We choose the channel mix, creative formats and measurement around your audience and scope—not a promise to run every platform at once.
Emarat Al Youm featured Ahmed Sharbal’s commentary on investment and Dubai’s market in these two articles.
Commentary on the factors shaping investment interest and the property market outlook at the time.
Read the original article in Arabic ↗EMARAT AL YOUMAn interview contribution discussing Dubai’s investment environment and the momentum following Expo 2020.
Read the original article in Arabic ↗Tell me what you are building, who you need to reach and what success would look like. I’ll help shape the direction, deliverables and next steps.