EOV Media Development Group

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the founder of FitVisor, a startup company that offers personal training. We assign trainers with different specialties to fit our clients’ specific needs.

What challenge were you trying to address with EOV Media Group?

I was looking for someone to help us with branding.

What was the scope of their involvement?

First, I explained to EOV our vision and what the company was about. They did market research and presented different options to market our company in the best possible way. Along with this, they helped us determine our target audience.

Then, they handled all the general branding creation, including the logo, fonts, and social media themes. Additionally, they gave us advice on how to kick off our brand on social media platforms and designed giveaway products, gifts for clients, clothing, and any other asset that had our logo on it.

Aside from branding, EOV also did a small animation project for us, creating a three-minute video to explain our company.

What is the team composition?

I worked with a main point of contact, a designer, and an animator.

How did you come to work with EOV Media Group?

My friends had worked with EOV and recommended them to me.

How much have you invested with them?

We spent around 40,000 dirhams (approximately $10,000 USD).

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in March 2021, and the project was completed in April 2021, but they still make minor changes for us when needed.

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement? 

We’ve received incredible feedback around our branding and amazing reviews on our colors and logo. Some people said that our image was better than some well-known national brands.

How did EOV Media Group perform from a project management standpoint?

Everything went smoothly with them. EOV’s team quickly felt like friends rather than just business partners, making our communication much easier. I still have direct access to them via their mobile numbers.

What did you find most impressive about them?

EOV is transparent in their service and pricing, and they’re professional yet friendly in the way they conduct themselves. They worked and reworked until they achieved the desired results.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No — there’s nothing specific that comes to my mind.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

I recommend EOV  for startups because they’re pretty helpful to people who don’t know well yet what they’re doing. Ask them all your questions; they will provide detailed answers and explanations, and they’ll be able to meet your expectations.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m a personal assistant at A & T Technical Services. We design and organize exhibitions. I’m the one arranging tasks for our design, production, and sales teams. We’ve been in business for more than two years, and we’re working on projects at the moment, despite the pandemic.

What challenge were you trying to address with EOV Media Group?

We were rebranding our company.

What was the scope of their involvement?

EOV created our entire branding based on our ideas, and they’re also handling our digital marketing and media creation. They’ve created pamphlets and other collateral for us as well. Other key deliverables include branding guidelines, logo, stationery, mugs, roll-ups, and flyers. 

We provide briefs to them and they provide us the storyboard. We give them comments, share ideas (brainstorming), and draft ideas for visualization, until they come up with the exact design we want.

Their stationery, such as letterhead and envelopes, stood out to us. It is arranged in such a manner that our logo been emphasized, even without mentioning the company name. Its originality and creativity stood out.

What is the team composition?

I’m working with their director and a designer. I discuss ideas and requirements with the director.

How did you come to work with EOV Media Group?

We chose them based on their cost and quality of work. EOV had a good reputation in Dubai and had won multiple awards. They’d worked with large companies and government entities in the region as well. They knew what they were doing, and they had their own methods and processes to deliver according to the requirements and schedule submitted to them.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with EOV around January 2018, and it’s ongoing. We’ve also worked as a supplier for EOV, for printing and other services, and we’ve worked on 3-4 projects in total.

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

EOV has a lot of creative, out-of-the-box ideas, and they work diligently. I rate our collaboration 8/10. Every project we’ve done with them has been successful.

How did EOV Media Group perform from a project management standpoint?

They use Trello as a centralized communication channel between our team and theirs. All projects are tracked there, and we can see the progress of the work and who’s assigned to it. That makes it easy for us to follow up. EOV is quick to respond to any questions we may have. There will be delays during holidays and similar periods, but they still reply to emails within a day at those times. We use WhatsApp for quick communication, where we have a group with our management and their team.

What did you find most impressive about them?

I like how they’re dealing with us with professionalism and camaraderie. I’ve worked with graphic designers before where it was difficult to get a response about a change or revision while they were working on the task, or they wouldn’t reply at all. With EOV, we can get in touch with them on Trello or WhatsApp, and they reply within 5-20 minutes. They don’t put us on hold or neglect us simply because they’re doing something else. I’m enjoying working with them because of their quick response time and professionalism.

Are there any areas they could improve?

They could improve their motion graphics design skills. The rest of the collaboration has been good. EOV can create infographics and other media, and they’re creative people.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a The designers team leader in the corporate communication department at a government entity in Abu Dhabi

For what projects/services did your company hire EOV Media Group?

My entity has been working along with eov even before I become an employee their since 2015. They have been working in many different projects such as rebranding, programs development, redesigning the mobile app, creating the concept and design of the yearly planners for employees and events management.

What were your goals for this project?

For the yearly planners we always seeks for a new creative ideas that will keep the employees communicate with each other and focusing in spreading knowledge and awareness among them.

How did you select EOV Media Group?

The team have been working with eov even before I joined it.

Describe the project in detail.

For such project we usually ask for a concepts from different vendors. Eov have been providing the best concepts that support our targets in the entity as they understand out mission and values and our strategy.

We work along with them in a different meetings to reach the best ideas that supports our target. They usually study our needs and requests and come back with a design concept and variety of gift items that support the idea.

This process usually take around 2-3 weeks and then we decide on the best design option and gift items and receive a mock up within less than 2 weeks to start production.

What was the team composition?

The focal point was the team manager. Most of our meetings and communication was through him. They have a back office team but the main contacting person was him. And it is better to be so to avoid the mistakes, misunderstanding, and confusion in ideas and timings.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We have decide to add a monthly quiz in the planner for that year. The questions were based on our strategy and we have included a strategy tip in each month. The employees interaction was higher than previous years with the quizzes we use to do for them.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

The work with eov team have been always easy to manage and communicate. The communication between our teams is by a variety of options. Either phone calls or WhatsApp msgs and we have a group their for the trams as we work regularly with them.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

• They are always available and they respond very quickly with any inquiries and issues. They are flexible to any updates and changes even at the last minute.
• They always provide impressive work when it comes to designing.
• Quality is number one to them which really attracts us to work with them

Are there any areas for improvement?

Some projects could be delivered faster but the delay was usually from both sides as we sometimes take time for the approval cycle.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Foreign Ministry

For what projects/services did your company hire EOV Media Group?

Presentation and booklet

What were your goals for this project?

Develop a campaign for a government initiative

How did you select EOV Media Group?

Through word of mouth, they were recommended

Describe the project in detail.

They were commissioned to design a high level presentation to be presented to our leadership, on top of designing the associated book for the initiative.

What was the team composition?

Projects, strategy and future depts

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We were able to produce a satisfactory presentation to launch the initiative

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Seemless and fluid, it was easy to get the milestones done on time thanks to their solid communication and time management

What did you find most impressive about this company?

ease of communication and ability to deliver on time

Are there any areas for improvement?

Hard to point out at anything specific but there can be room for improvement when using stock images (some times the initial pitch was not desired) however they have proved their ability to turn things around

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am managing the Marketing Communication of the ASEAN cluster subsidiary within bioMerieux. Our company is a global leader for more than 55 years in in vitro diagnostics solutions for both clinical and industrial applications.

For what projects/services did your company hire EOV Media Development Group?

EOV Media was engaged to work on the animation required for an internal communication campaign. Their scope of work is to create a series of whiteboard animation, which showcases and enhances visibility for a set of desired behaviours that would act as a guide for our employees on their daily actions.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We chanced upon their portfolio and found them to be a potential partner. A briefing meeting was set up with 2 other creative agencies, and all proposals were reviewed. The deciding factor was how EOV managed to grasp very accurately the look and feel of our envisioned end product, and crafted a storyboard that requires only minimal revisions.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

After the briefing meeting, EIOV reverted with a storyboard outline, and some samples illustrations for our comments and inputs. After a couple of rounds of edits, while we concurrently worked on audio recordings, the animation is generated. Further minor asesthetic and timing adjustments were made. The final deliverable was completed less than 4 weeks after the initial meeting.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We have Ali who is the CEO, Ryan the animator, Hamza the creative director, and Mohammad who is the copywriter - 4 team members in total.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

After the animation was launched, the response was overwhelming with very positive and uplifting feedbacks. The avatars created and the whiteboard animation was refreshing for the audience, having seen many videos and testimonials versions of the same communication.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

The EOV team was very responsive, reacts quickly, follows changes closely and very collaborative. Even with the 4 hrs time zone difference, it does not affect the workflow between the various collaborators.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They listen carefully, and understand our requirements quickly even though this is a relatively new territory and industry for them. They are very honest in their work, and displayed high levels of professionalism.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

The terms that we use for our products and solutions could be very remote to them. The team made special effort to have a good level of understanding so they can incorporate into the works.

Please describe your company and your position there.

My company is focused on providing photography and media services to our client. We come with creative concepts and executions to all the work we do. I'm the project coordinator between our clients and our resources.

For what projects/services did your company hire EOV Media Group?

My company hired EOV media to take care of client media coverage and video production requirements. We work with EOV Media often in multiple projects and we are considered partners in the same field.

What were your goals for this project?

Produce a strong and meaningful video for our client which was delivered by EOV team.

How did you select EOV Media Group?

We have been working with EOV Media for a long time and we consider them partners at the same field we work with.

Describe the scope of their work in detail.

The scope was to cover a full event by shooting videos and editing them to produce event highlights, event documentary, interviews and social media posts.

What was the team composition?

They are consisted of two camera men, 1 video editor and 1 project manager on site.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We were very pleased with the outcome, we had minor changes, the team handled all the details with professionalism and supported us with all we required on time while working under pressure.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Excellent since we have been working with them for years, we know exactly how to deal with each others.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their professionalism, flexibility, and willingness to help all the time is very impressive.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Not that I can recall, but maybe adding more resources to the team.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm a co-founder of 1take media production. We create, infographics video, full-fledged TVC, scripted Video Campaign or deliver Event Coverage.

For what projects/services did your company hire EOV Media Group?

We hired the EOV media group for the Mars City 2117 project for the Ministry of Energy of the UAE.

What were your goals for this project?

Our goals were to create and design an environment similar to the Mars planet environment where the UAE is going to build a city in 2117.

How did you select EOV Media Group?

We have worked with the EOV media group before on several projects, and all of them were happily delivered and met the satisfaction of our client.

Describe the project in detail.

The project was about creating an environment similar to Mars planet. They designed and drew the storyboard for the CGI team to build and animate the scenes by merge it with shots for an actor who has been filmed in a studio in Dubai.

What was the team composition?

2 designers who desigend the 3D inviorment, and one storyboard artist.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

The project was happily delivered to the client and they have sent us a special thanks for the amazing output that we delivered.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

it was very smooth. As I said before, it wasn't the first time, so our teams were very organized and worked very hard to deliver the project on time with keeping quality as the top priority.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

High level of proficiency and they always respect their client's needs. A proven performer during high-pressure situations, ability to handle multiple projects and meet prescribed deadlines.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Nothing to mention, they are the best.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I help companies and leaders run better businesses, extracting the best from people to win in the FMCG and Healthcare sectors.

For what projects/services did your company hire EOV Media Development Group, and what were your goals?

One of the most volatile and complex areas to succeed in is fast-moving consumer products. Competition has always been intense, and the battle for wallet share has never been more complicated than it is right now. Consumers are constantly assaulted with thousands of messages from a variety of sources. EOV helps me to deliver the right message, catch the consumer's attention at the right time, and, most importantly, keep their attention. EOV support us to build the foundation for the brand proposition and profile to win in the GCC Region.

How did you select this vendor?

After pitched 3 vendors, we choose EOV for their ability to pare complex problems down to simple-to-understand concepts.

Describe the scope of their work in detail, including any steps and the final deliverables.

EOV supports us with a strategic brand roadmap, looking at every aspect, including the marketplace, consumers, channels, competitors, and the brand. EOV uses a very well-structured process, including interviews with executives and customers and conducting an audit of competitors. They came with a summary of the drivers and inhibitors currently facing the brand and the potential risks and opportunities in the future. They guided the team to bring brand vision, purpose, values, key issues, strategies, and tactics with all that info.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

I work directly with the CEO and the Creative Director.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

EOV delivers exactly on their promise – they make brands stronger. Delivering projects ON TIME.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Regular meet-ups of all relevant team members to discuss the status of the project and any updates and results.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Market insights and confidence in their proposal.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

I am very satisfied with the quality of their output.

Please describe your company and your position there.

SEHA is a healthcare services company in Abu Dhabi and I am the internal communications section manager.

For what projects/services did your company hire EOV Media Group?

Creating comic characters for an initiative to support mental health.

What were your goals for this project?

To get characters that look and speak the part and target audience.

How did you select EOV Media Group?

Word of mouth

Describe the project in detail.

The project was done by meeting with EOV and briefing the team in and giving the script in.

What was the team composition?

Project Manager/Lead and designers

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

It is yet to be launched externally but internally in SEHA it was well received.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Really good.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They immediately work and understand our needs as a client.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Nothing to add here.

Please describe your company and your position there.

We are a new innovative platform that was created with the ever evolving user experience requirement in the Regional & Global e-com.

For what projects/services did your company hire EOV Media Group?

Branding creation. Finding the right branding for the company was not an easy task till we reached out to EOV Media.

What were your goals for this project?

Creating an impactful branding that speaks out to anyone that sees it at first glance.

How did you select EOV Media Group?

Our team brainstormed about how the branding needs to be and the three partners in the company selected EOV Media Group for that.

Describe the project in detail.

The project involved providing EOV with what our company stands for and its purpose and accordingly they came up with the branding that suits the business.

What was the team composition?

Several team members were involved in the process.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We received 3 different options of which we chose the one that was voted to be most suitable and we requested for some changes and moved forward with the branding design.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Very fast, very efficient. All round professional.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Level of professionalism and creativity and capability in delivering what we required with in-depth analysis of what we were looking for.

Are there any areas for improvement?

None that i can think of.