Intentional audience
Housing, work, school, meetups, and daily UAE life — people building a home, not doomscrolling.
Expat Pocket · Ads
Reach UAE expats where they actually live.
Self-serve campaigns in a calm, mobile-first product — not another noisy feed. Honest SPONSORED labeling, emirate + language targeting, and a real Ads console for Pro partners.
Self-serve /adsFeed · Search · Rooms · MeetEN · TR · RU · ARWallet billing
SPONSOREDDubai · TR & EN
Marina Fit Studio
Morning pilates groups in Marina — weekly slots for a trial class.
Learn moreNeutral frame, visible label — members always tell ads apart from content.
Illustrative exampleWhy Expat Pocket
High-intent moments, not scroll noise.
Four languages, one product
Target EN · TR · RU · AR so creative and landing pages match how members actually read.
Honest inventory
Every placement shows a clear SPONSORED treatment. No disguised native spam, no dark patterns.
Self-serve + ops-ready
Create and manage campaigns in /ads; review, wallet, and reporting designed for real operators.
Surfaces
Where your brand can appear.
Live product surfaces with frequency caps. More inventory ships as the product grows — without turning the app into a billboard.
Home feed
01Sponsored posts and banners with daily frequency caps — contextual, not wall-to-wall.
Global search
02Top-row sponsored results when people are already looking for something.
Room pins
03Sticky presence inside community rooms that match your category.
Meet map
04Map pins for real-world discovery — local, timely, limited per day.
Category banners
05Fixed packages on discovery surfaces for broader brand moments.
Always labeled
06SPONSORED triple: visible label, neutral frame, immutability notice. Trust first.
Campaign tools
A console built for operators.
Meta-style depth without the chaos: campaigns, creative, delivery, and reporting in one Pro-gated portal.
Guided campaign create
Surface, creative (text / image / video), budget, schedule, and review submit — with live preview thinking.
Targeting that fits UAE
Emirate + language only. No creepy people lists — policy-aligned and product-honest.
Insights & reports
Performance overview, saved reports, and export-ready views as your account scales.
Wallet & ledger
Top up securely on the web (Stripe). Mobile stays read-only for spend visibility.
Audiences & events (preview)
Meta-parity tools for audiences, events, creative library, experiments, and rules — staged as the stack hardens.
Sign in like your team
Apple, Google, email, or approve from the Expat Pocket mobile app — same Supabase identity as the product.
How to start
From brief to live in three moves.
01
Get Pro access
Verified Pro / business membership unlocks the Ads console. Demo and partner onboarding available.
02
Create in /ads
Pick surface & format, set budget and dates, upload creative, submit for review.
03
Fund, publish, learn
Wallet top-up on the website, go live after ops review, iterate with insights.
Boundaries
Ads are not everything.
Not a Business subscription
Expat+ and Business operator plans are product tiers. Brand media is Ads — different contract, different tools, different billing.
Not feed noise
Frequency caps and honest labels protect member trust. We won’t sell panic, dark patterns, or unlimited intrusion.
No person-list targeting
Emirate + language only. No selling access to individual people lists — by design.
Poco stays ad-free
The AI guide surface is not an ad surface. Sponsored inventory lives on feed, search, rooms, Meet, and category lines.
Partners & media
ads@expatpocket.appEnterprise packages, launches, and media kits. Already Pro? Open the console. Press → press@; general → contact form.
Ready when you are. Calmly.
Self-serve for operators. Human help for bigger stories. No pitch-deck theatre — just inventory that respects the product.