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Is the MENA region ready for the shift to in-house creatives?

Shahid's Karim Yusuf explains the perspective shifts from working at an agency to going in-house, from creating with purpose to aligning with business objectives, where creative sits closer to the brand and the audience.

Karim Yusuf, Senior Creative Manager – Marketing VOD, Shahid on working at in-house agencyKarim Yusuf, Senior Creative Manager – Marketing VOD, Shahid

Three years ago, I did something that would make most agency creatives flinch: I went in-house. Not freelance. Not a side hustle. Full-time; a full commitment.

If you’ve worked in an agency, you already know the reputation: in-house sounds like the graveyard of ambition. One brand, toned-down ideas and the same campaign in a different shade of safe.

That was the myth; I believed it too. But I also believed “fy tareeka tanya” or there’s another way.

At Shahid, a leading streaming platform in the region, we’ve built an in-house creative function that thinks strategically, creates boldly and delivers work that moves fast and makes an impact.

And while the rest of the world is


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the authorAnup Oommen
Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.