Brand Deals for UAE Creators

You spend hours scripting, filming, editing, and posting  and a brand slides into your DMs offering product in exchange. Sound familiar?
 

Most creators in the UAE are leaving serious money on the table. Not because they don't have the audience, but because nobody taught them how to pitch, negotiate, or actually get paid properly.
 

Shikha Balani, the founder of Chic Studio has spent years navigating brand deals in the UAE market specifically — and this guide is everything she's learned, written down. Because the rules here are different from the US or the UK.

The brands are different. The rates are different. And there's actually far less competition than you'd think, which means the opportunity is bigger than most creators realise.

By the time you finish this guide you'll know how to build a media kit that makes brands take you seriously, figure out what to actually charge (and stop apologising for it), write cold pitch emails that get replies, negotiate without caving the second someone pushes back, get contracts in place so you always get paid, and turn a one-off deal into a monthly retainer.

Whether you have 2K followers or 200K, this is the guide that turns your content into a real income.