Why work with Mac18 Digital?

A global alliance

The Mac18 Digital Advertising alliance with LH Advertising, Israel and Flex face Studio, Ireland offers you over 21 years of advertising, digital planning, media buying, and marketing experience in Dubai, combined with world class commercial strategy, consulting, branding, and marketing services, delivered from our Dubai and global office, which intertwines together to accelerate business success for our clients.

Business growth strategists

Mac18 Digital and LH offers you the strategic insight, clarity of vision that can take your business to the next level and accelerate your success. Our expertise comes from decades of applied strategy, branding, sales, and marketing experience.

A strong & stable history

You can trace our history back to 2000. By fusing Mac18's deep expertise as an idea company with Mac18's full-service strategy, branding, and marketing capabilities, our clients gain access to a complete range of services under one very convenient roof.

Brand positioning experts

As a brand strategy consultancy, we will ensure that your marketing and branding communicate what makes you unique, drawing in clients who are motivated to do business with your company.

Part of your team

We don’t just act as an external service provider, we strive to become an extension of your team, helping you achieve growth, either directly through our services or others in our network, that we can introduce.

A bespoke solution for you

We understand that what works for one business might not work for another. All of our services are truly bespoke, tailored to your vision, your business, and your goals. We never adopt a one size fits all approach.

Who we are

We are a really friendly group of people

You are potentially entrusting us with your business online. We get that and we don’t expect you to do so lightly. We always strive to be friendly, approachable, jargon free and always happy to share our knowledge and understanding.

Mac18 Creative is headed by Shekhar Rao and supported by a team of experts covering a full range of digital services. Although primarily based in UAE, we also have long standing representation in the UK.

We look forward to connecting.

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Our leadership team

Shekhar Rao – Founder and CEO

Shekhar is a rare commodity, a results-driven business growth strategist with an integrated skills-set in business analysis, brand strategy & positioning, brand design, and sales & marketing strategy
He has worked across various verticals that include Real Estate, Healthcare, Hospitality, tech startups, luxury, and Online E-commerce brands.
He has strong business analysis skills, the ability to spot untapped profit in a business, and the creativity to execute campaigns that leverage growth.

ON Goldstein (LH) – Founder and Director

Goldstein owns a rich experience of over 20 years in the advertising industry in Israel and works on one of the biggest brands in communication called Huawei across the globe and has been a political advisor for several politicians in Israel.

Geoff Cox – Creative Director (3D, 360-degree VR)

Geoff is head of technical and oversees virtual environment design and ongoing web and experience development with over 30 years in technical development. Geoff has worked for global companies such as legal and general and the Kyocera Group throughout Europe.

Shashi Zagade – Creative Director

Shashi crafts unique and compelling creative solutions for our many clients, drawing on his decades of creative design experience. Specialties include branding and identity, TV Commercial, graphic design, and website development for a wide range of clients.

Anshul Rao – Marketing Manager and Digital Executive

Aanshul plans efficient campaigns for our clients, stretching their budgets and helping them communicate with their target audiences with air and impact. He has years experience in campaign planning. Buying and a strong understanding of offline, print, and digital media.

Established

We have a proven track record

You want an advertising agency with a thorough knowledge of the UAE market. Mac18 Digital has been here since 1999 and has stayed around through the cyclical market fluctuations. We have clients who have been with us through the years. It’s not just the success that is sweet but the enduring relationship.

Knowledgable

A genuine wealth of real experience

Our team has been built to cover a wide range of skills, ensuring that we can always react quickly and confidently to any digital requirements. Each team member excels in their own space and brings quality and professionalism to everything they deliver.

Open

Always happy to help and guide

For us it’s not just about the work we do with customers, it’s about the journey and all successful journeys are the result of discussion, exchange of ideas and planning. So we are always happy to hear your plans, comments or even reservations and contribute wherever we can.

The Flex Studio - what we do
What we do

We create physical & digital solutions that have genuine impact

Yes, provide advertising and digital marketing, we develop websites, web applications, mobile solutions and we love to create visual journeys using AR, VR, animation and VFX. However everything we do is based upon genuine benefit. We wont create for the sake of creating so we will help you to identify, imagine, plan and execute.

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