Who we are
Hootivo Digital Marketing Services LLC is a digital marketing agency registered in the United Arab Emirates. We work with business owners in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman and across the GCC to get found online, generate qualified enquiries, and turn digital attention into sales they can measure.
The agency is founded and managed by Faraz Ahmed. The goal has never been audience numbers. It is visibility, enquiries, sales, and customers who come back.
Why Hootivo exists
Most business owners we speak to have already paid for marketing and cannot tell what it produced. They have a folder of monthly reports full of reach and impressions, an ad account someone else controls, a website nobody has updated in two years, and no way to answer the only question that matters, which is how many customers came from the money they spent.
That gap is not caused by a lack of effort. It is caused by nobody connecting the spend to a countable outcome at the start, and by an industry that finds it more comfortable to report on activity than on results.
Hootivo is built the other way around. The outcome is agreed first, in numbers. Tracking goes in before any budget is spent. Reporting is in plain language. The accounts are in your name. If a channel is wrong for your business, we say so on the first call, including when saying so means a smaller engagement for us.
Faraz Ahmed, Founder
Faraz Ahmed has worked in digital marketing for nine years. The first four were spent with service businesses, including cleaning companies and technical services, where the work is unglamorous and the measure of success is simple: did the phone ring, and did the job get booked. That is where the habit of reporting on enquiries rather than impressions came from.
The years since have covered a deliberately wide range of categories: e-commerce brands, branding and stamps, tourism, salons, gardening and landscaping, curtains and interiors, Italian food and oil companies, photography and videography businesses, and lead generation for mobile phone retailers. The work spans both B2B and direct-to-consumer, as hands-on delivery and as consultancy.
That range matters more than it might appear. A marketer who has only worked in one category tends to apply one playbook to every business. Having run campaigns for a landscaping company, a jewellery store and a B2B supplier makes the differences between them obvious, and the differences are where the strategy actually lives.
Hootivo started for two reasons. The first was to build a properly dedicated team rather than a loose arrangement of freelancers, so that strategy, ads, SEO, content and web answer to one person and nothing falls between them. The second was to work with the small and medium businesses that run the UAE economy, who are usually offered either an expensive agency built for corporate budgets or a cheap freelancer who disappears, and rarely anything sensible in between.
Faraz works in Urdu, English and Hindi, which covers most of the conversations this market needs to have.
How we work, and what we will not do
What we commit to on every engagement:
- Your Google Ads, Meta Business and Google Analytics 4 accounts, your domain and your website files are created in your name. You keep them, and the data in them, if we stop working together.
- Conversion tracking is configured and tested before any advertising budget is spent.
- Ad spend is billed directly to you by Google or Meta. We never mark it up and never take a percentage of it.
- You receive a written growth plan before work starts, stating the channels, the costs in AED and the outcome being targeted. The plan is yours whether or not you hire us.
- Monthly reporting in plain language, covering what worked, what did not, and what we changed. The months that go badly are reported as badly.
What we will not do:
- Guarantee rankings or results that depend on platforms nobody controls.
- Buy backlinks, buy reviews, or write reviews. Both breach platform policies and carry legal exposure in the UAE, and a suspended profile or a search penalty costs more than the shortcut saves.
- Lock you into a long contract before you have seen any results.
- Charge a percentage of your ad spend, which would give us a reason to recommend spending more of your money.
- Recommend a service you do not need, or take on work we are not the right people for.
What we are not
Clear limits are worth more than a longer service list. We are not a tendering or bid-writing consultancy. We are not a PR or media-relations firm, and we do not place press coverage. We are not an app development studio. We do not offer influencer casting or talent management, though we can advise on whether an influencer collaboration makes sense and what the UAE permit rules require. And we are not the right choice for a business that wants its marketing handled entirely without involvement, because the work needs your product knowledge and your response times to produce anything.
Company details
| Legal name | Hootivo Digital Marketing Services LLC |
| Company type | Limited Liability Company |
| Registered in | United Arab Emirates |
| Licence number | 2646849.01 |
| Founder and Manager | Faraz Ahmed |
| Tax | Registered for UAE Corporate Tax with the Federal Tax Authority |
| Service area | Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, the UAE and the GCC |
| Contact | info@hootivo.com, +971 56 598 2464 |
What we are licensed to do
Our licence covers digital marketing, online marketing services, online advertising, social media services and consultancy, digital media management, graphic design, website and software design, e-commerce through websites, and commercial photography and video production.
This is listed because asking an agency for its licence and the activities it covers is a normal and sensible check before you hire one, and because an agency delivering work outside its licensed activities creates a problem that becomes yours.