Brand & Performance Agency  ·  Across the Gulf

We build brands that perform.

An independent agency holding brand thinking and performance discipline in the same room. Dubai roots since 2010, working across the Gulf.

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Mercedes-BenzHuaweidue& (etisalat)SuperdryGaleries LafayetteMBC GroupJulpharLavazzaInterContinentalSheratonRotanaAl Rabban AutomotiveROXBAICGACHYPTECRizzoliBurgerFuelChili's

Brands we have worked with across the Gulf, 2010 to today

Our belief

Most agencies treat brand and performance as separate disciplines.

The brand team thinks in years. The performance team thinks in weeks. Neither talks to the other properly, and the client pays for the gap.

We built Tonic to close that gap. One room, one team, one standard: work that builds the brand and moves the number, at the same time.

Selected work

The proof.

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Brand · Pharmaceuticals

Julphar

Full brand system, rolled out across 40+ markets.

40+ markets · one system
Performance · Automotive

ROX

Launching a premium EREV in Qatar across five paid platforms.

4,400+ enquiries · Qatar launch
Performance · Automotive

BAIC

An always-on WhatsApp lead engine for a nine-model lineup.

5,600+ enquiries · 1.9M+ reached
Performance · Commercial vehicles

GAC Commercial

Launching the Smilodon pickup from zero followers up.

730K+ reached · 5,200+ followers
Performance · Automotive

HYPTEC

A new electric badge, introduced to a market that knows luxury.

580K+ reached · 330K+ video views
Brand · Specialty coffee

Cafe 15

A modern heritage coffee brand, from identity to the phone wallet.

Identity to wallet pass
Brand · Retail loyalty

MORE

One number at the till, one balance across a whole retail group.

One balance, every brand
Production · Coffee houses

Il Caffè di Roma

An Italian coffee house, translated across five markets.

Five markets, two scripts
Experiential · Hospitality

Fortnum & Mason

Tennis at the Palace, full event branding and production.

Arch to last printed card
Production · Quick service

BurgerFuel

In-store collateral production across the Middle East.

Menu board to burger sleeve
Brand · Holding group

Faraj Bin Hamoodah

A calligraphic identity carved for an Abu Dhabi holding group.

One signature, whole group
Experiential · Luxury fashion

The Maisons

Store launches, 400-guest shows and head-office media planning for twenty-four maisons.

24 maisons · 4 markets
About Tonic

We put brand and performance in the same room. Neither has left since.

Tonic's roots go back to Dubai in 2010, on a simple conviction: the Gulf needed an independent agency that could hold brand thinking and performance discipline in the same room. The work has run across the region ever since, in Arabic and English, from Ras Al Khaimah to Jeddah to Doha.

Senior teams, assembled around the brief. Brand, media, production and analytics under one standard, run by people who have shipped the work before. No briefing chains, and no juniors finishing the job.

2010Dubai roots. Independent, working across the Gulf ever since.
40+Markets carrying a single client brand system we built.
AR + ENBilingual by default. Arabic and English drawn as one voice.