Dealership content · Dubai

The films, the photos, the site and the bots - one dealership, one person.

Since 2023 I've been the whole content operation for one Dubai supercar showroom: the car films, the stills, the website they live on, and the automation behind the sales floor. Not four suppliers who've never met each other.

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Film

Proof, not adjectives.

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Porsche 911 Carrera GTSProject One Motors

BMW X6 M CompetitionProject One Motors

Mercedes-AMG OneProject One Motors

Mercedes-AMG SLS Black SeriesProject One Motors

A dealership needs one system, not four suppliers

The usual arrangement is a photographer, a video guy, a web agency and somebody running the ads, none of whom speak to each other. So the photos arrive at a size the site can't serve, the film gets embedded in a way that costs you the page load, and the inventory on the website is three cars behind the floor.

Every seam between those people is a place the work quietly gets worse, and nobody owns the result.

What it has looked like at one showroom

Project One Motors sells cars that cost more than most apartments in Dubai. I've done effectively all of it there since 2023, and the pieces are connected on purpose:

  • The films - shot on the showroom floor under light I can control, cut vertical so a sales team can post them the same day.
  • The stills - shot early, graded to hold the black, delivered at the size the listing page needs and not one size bigger.
  • The website - rebuilt from WordPress into a custom Next.js platform on Cloudflare's edge. It loads in 0.4 seconds, and adding a car is one workflow instead of three.
  • The automation - a WhatsApp bot that finds a salesman the right car's photos, a second one that answers customers from live stock and knows when to hand over, and a check-in kiosk by the door that turns a walk-in into a logged lead.

The seams are the expensive part

A dealership's organic search traffic is its foot traffic. The real cost of the old build wasn't the four-second load, it was that updating it hurt enough that the team avoided doing it - so the site was quietly lying to buyers about what was in the showroom.

When the same person shoots the cars and runs the platform, a car arriving is one job: photographed, filmed, published, indexed. Nobody has to chase anybody for a file.

Does the content actually sell cars?

Sometimes, and sometimes it's money set on fire. Video earns its keep when a car is expensive, specific, and being considered by somebody who can't come in today. It earns much less on a generic listing that a good photograph and a clear price would have handled. That's the dealer's version of the maths rather than the agency's, and I've written it out in full.

FAQ

Questions people actually ask

Who does the best dealership content in Dubai?

Every agency will tell you it's them, so here's a test that isn't an opinion: ask to see a showroom where they did all of it, not one piece of it. Ask who built the dealer's website, then ask who shot the cars on it. If those are two different companies, you're buying the seams along with the work - and the seams are where inventory goes stale and files come back the wrong size.

Can you handle the photos, the video and the website, or do I need three suppliers?

All of it, which is the whole argument of this page. At Project One Motors that's meant the films, the stills, the platform and the automation from one person. You can also take a single piece - plenty of people do - but the version where the pieces fit together is the one worth having.

What about the ads and the tracking?

Both, and the tracking is the part most people skip. Meta and Google on the ads side, GA4 and conversion tracking underneath so you can tell which enquiry came from where. In this market most enquiries land on WhatsApp, which is exactly where a normal Dubai analytics setup goes blind. I've written up what a setup that doesn't go blind actually measures.

Do you only work with supercar dealers?

Most of what I've shot is luxury and performance, because that's where the last few years went. The system underneath isn't brand-specific though - it's inventory, photographs, a fast page, and a way for a buyer to start a conversation without filling in a form. That shape is the same at any price point.

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