I am Mubin Shaikh, a freelance digital marketer in Dubai and the founder of Ads with Mubin. I have worked in digital marketing since 2020 and now run Google Ads, Meta Ads, SEO and lead generation for businesses across Dubai, under UAE Trade Licence No. 1618922 and Social Media Advertiser Permit No. 475238. This page is the honest version of who you are hiring, because when you work with me there is no agency to hide behind. It is just me and your account.
I got into digital marketing in 2020, near the end of my degree, and I learned it the unglamorous way: running real campaigns, breaking things, fixing them, and watching where the money actually went. I graduated from Mumbai University in 2021 with an A grade, and I am completing an MBA in marketing in 2026. The degrees matter less than what they taught me to do, which is think about marketing as a system that has to pay for itself, not a set of pretty posts.
In 2023 I moved to Dubai. That move changed how I work. Dubai is its own market with its own rhythm — the Ramadan slowdown, the Dubai Shopping Festival auction spikes, the way certain neighbourhoods and nationalities respond to certain offers. None of that is on a course. You learn it by running budgets here, which is what I have been doing since I arrived.
Ads with Mubin is a one-person digital marketing practice in Dubai. I run paid advertising on Google and Meta, search engine optimisation including AI search, social media management, and website and landing-page builds, mostly for SMEs, startups and ecommerce brands. Alongside the done-for-you work I also take on consulting, so if you have an in-house team or another agency and just need someone to audit the account, fix the strategy and point you straight, I do that too.
I keep the client list short deliberately. A freelancer who takes on thirty accounts is just a badly run agency. I would rather work with a handful of businesses properly, be genuinely across each account every week, and answer my own phone when you call.
Started working in digital marketing while finishing my degree.
Graduated from Mumbai University with an A grade.
Moved to Dubai and began running campaigns in the UAE market.
Completing an MBA in marketing; Ads with Mubin running as a licensed Dubai practice.
With an agency you usually meet a senior person in the pitch and then get handed to a junior who is juggling a dozen accounts. With me you get one person across your account every day, the same person who built the strategy. That is the trade. Fewer clients, more attention, and far less of your budget lost to overhead that has nothing to do with your results.
I am not against agencies. For very large accounts that need design, dev, PR and media buying under one roof, they make sense. But for most SMEs and startups in Dubai, a licensed freelance digital marketing consultant in Dubai will move faster, talk to you directly, and keep more of your money in the actual ad account where it belongs.
These are patterns from the accounts I take on, not guarantees, because anyone promising fixed numbers before seeing your account is guessing.
Simple rule: every dirham is tracked, tested, and accountable. I do not hide behind impressions and reach. The reports show spend, leads, cost per lead and revenue where we can attribute it, and if something is not working we change it rather than dressing it up. You should always know exactly what your budget is doing and why.
If you want to know whether I can actually help your business, the fastest way to find out is to message me on WhatsApp. Tell me what you sell and what you are spending, and I will give you a straight read, whether or not we end up working together.
