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KPM Global Media · Dubai · UAE · KSA
Product film & performance creative
From catalogue tiles to a motion system that can take spend.
How two studio days replaced a year of static ads — and gave Saffron a pack the site, Meta, and stores could share.
2
Studio days
Hero, UGC, stills
40+
Cuts delivered
16:9, 1:1, 9:16
1
Lighting world
Brand-consistent
3
Surfaces
Site, Meta, in-store
GCC
Markets
EN + AR versions
Live
Always-on
Pack feeds the quarter
The overview
A case study about making product look expensive enough to click.
Saffron had the catalogue. It did not have motion that survived a 6-second thumb.
KPM treated the studio like a factory: one lighting world, many SKUs, cuts for every ratio, stills pulled from the same frames.
TL;DR
Sample collection: hero films, UGC-style cuts, and stills from the same lighting. Creative fatigue dropped because the account finally had something new to learn from.
01 / The business
A regional beauty retailer that had outgrown stills.
Saffron sells considered beauty across the UAE and KSA. The site looked premium. The ads looked like a PDF.
Performance teams were iterating bids on creative that had already died.
2
Core markets
DTC
Plus retail screens
AR/EN
Creative versions
Studio
Controlled light
02 / The opportunity
What needed to change — and what the market could not find.
“They were paying to show the same three tiles. The products deserved a set.”
- Static tiles could not show texture, drop, or ritual.
- UGC from creators did not match the site, so trust broke at click.
- No shared lighting meant every new SKU looked like a different brand.
- Arabic and English were afterthoughts, not planned ratios.
- In-store screens played the same 20-second loop for months.
The products were the authority. The ads were leftovers.
03 / The thinking
Studio as a performance engine.
We built the offer, the set, and the account plan in the same week.
01 / DATA
SKU priority
Hero lines first. The studio day follows the margin, not the mood board.
02 / FOUNDATION
One light
A world the e-comm team can repeat without calling us every Thursday.
03 / CONTENT
Three tones
Hero film, UGC-style handheld, and pack shots from the same table.
04 / LANGUAGE
EN + AR
On-screen type and VO planned before the camera rolls.
05 / MEDIA
Cutdown factory
6s, 15s, 30s. Hooks tested, not guessed.
06 / RETAIL
Screen pack
The same grade for the mall as for Meta, so the brand does not split.
04 / The build & activation
The account finally had new information to learn.
When creative and media share a pack, fatigue becomes a calendar problem, not a crisis.
40+
Cuts
Enough variation to test without another shoot.
2
Days
A quarter of assets, not a one-off hero.
3
Surfaces
Site PDPs, paid social, store screens.
AR
+ EN
Language planned in the treatment.
05 / The impact
Organic and paid now drink from the same well.
The feed stopped looking like ads bolted onto a pretty website. That is when people stay.
1
Brand world
Weekly
Organic from leftovers
PDP
Motion on key lines
Retail
Screens updated
06 / The system
Commerce craft the camera can prove.
01
Texture and drop
Beauty sells in close-up. We light for that, not for a lifestyle set.
02
Ritual cuts
How it goes on. Ten seconds of honesty beats a manifesto.
03
Offer frames
Bundles and gifts designed as shots, not as end-cards.
04
Creator match
UGC-style that still belongs next to the PDP.
05
Colour control
The product on screen is the product in the box.
06
Always-on pack
A shelf of cuts the media team can actually use.
The starting gap
Pretty site. Tired ads.
- · Strong catalogue photography
- · No motion system
- · Creative fatigue on paid
- · Mismatched UGC
- · Retail screens ignored
The growth system
One set. Many ratios. Shared spend.
- · Studio days that feed a quarter
- · EN and AR in the treatment
- · PDP + Meta + store
- · Hooks built for tests
- · A grade you can repeat
07 / The wider lesson
Performance without production is half a job.
In GCC e-commerce, the click is expensive. The frame has to earn it.
KPM runs studio and media as one brief so the bid strategy is not stuck with last year’s stills.
08 / Frequently asked questions
How this kind of work actually runs.
It is a sample collection to show the method. Your SKUs, markets, and numbers go here.
Work with KPM Global Media
Your catalogue may already be good. The ads may simply be starving.
Book a studio week. Leave with a quarter of motion.