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Nº 02 Club & Lounge 2019

AER Dubai

Always-on calendar marketing for a Dubai lounge — themed weekly nights, cocktail and kitchen films and the launch program that named AER as a top nightlife destination in the city.

Role

Account Lead, Hospitality Marketing, Themed-Events Programming

Year

2019

Location

Dubai, AE

Timeline

3 months

AER Dubai — Live in Color Brunch campaign creative.
Club & Lounge · Hero AER Dubai
§ 01 · Challenge

The brief.

AER is a club and lounge in Dubai, dropped into a market with no shortage of Friday-night options. The brief was to position the room as a premier nightlife destination across diverse audience segments — corporate lunches one afternoon, ladies' nights another evening, brunch the next weekend — without the brand losing shape across the calendar.

Discount-first marketing would have undercut the price point; one-segment marketing would have left half the room empty on the slow nights. The job was a calendar that gave a regular reason to come back across multiple audiences, with one consistent brand voice running through it.

§ 02 · Approach

The work.

We built the always-on program as recurring beats — Business Lunch for the lunch crowd, Ladies' Night with a guest performer, Euphoric Thursdays with live bands, Friday's celebrity-pianist programming and the Happy Hour anchor — each with its own creative system but a shared kit. Every cover, tile and weekly tag pulled from the same color, type and grid system so the room read as one place across a year of social.

We considered seasonal big-bang launches around each beat but locked a recurring weekly cadence instead — Friday programming hit harder when the audience already knew the same name and visual treatment would be on the wall the next week. Two short films carried the heaviest moments — one on mixology craft running under #aermixology, and a behind-the-scenes look at the kitchen — both built to play in stories and reels rather than as long-form ads. The seasonal hero was the "Live in Color" brunch, with multiple creative explorations through color, imagery and typography before the campaign locked. Account work covered photography and motion direction on property, the weekly social calendar and the operator review every week.

§ 03 · Outcome
“I built the recurring weekly cadence — Business Lunch, Ladies' Night, Euphoric Thursdays, Friday's pianist programming — so AER stopped competing with one-off Friday launches and earned its place in the regular rotation across roughly 4–6 named beats. Weekly attendance held steady through three quarters of activation, the Live in Color brunch became the room's most-recognized seasonal moment, and the cocktail and kitchen short films were carried forward by the operator into the venue's evergreen content set. AER landed cleanly as a top choice for premium dining, entertainment and nightlife in Dubai. ”
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