Send us the photos already sitting on your dubizzle or DubiCars advert and you get a vertical video back within 24 hours, cut for TikTok, Instagram Reels and the WhatsApp thread where the deal actually happens. Nobody comes to your showroom with a camera, and nothing has to be shot again.
Listing counts read live on 25 August 2026. Audience figures from DataReportal's Digital 2026 report for the UAE.
Almost every other market sells this product as a listing upgrade. Here that is only half the story, because the portal with the most stock does not give you a video slot at all, while the channels your buyers actually live in are wide open. DataReportal counted 12.5 million social media user identities in a country of 11.4 million people, with TikTok reaching 12.5 million adults and Instagram 8.05 million, and residents spending close to three hours a day inside those feeds.
If your marketing plan starts and stops at Instagram, you are working the smaller of the two platforms. Both grew by roughly 17 per cent in the last year, so a 9:16 file that drops onto TikTok and Reels without cropping is the single most portable asset you can own.
Every dubizzle advert carries a WhatsApp button next to Call and Chat, so the enquiry lands in a chat within seconds. A twenty-second vertical clip survives being forwarded around a family group, which is more than can be said for a link to an advert nobody opens twice.
Many enquiries come from another emirate or from an export buyer who will never walk the yard before committing. Motion answers the questions a still photo leaves open, which is why a serious buyer will ask for a video anyway if you have not already sent one.
You get both cuts of every car, a vertical 9:16 file and a landscape 16:9 file, because the platforms below do not want the same thing. Here is honestly what we found on each of them when we checked on 25 August 2026, including the one place where a video will not help you.
The biggest pool of used stock in the country, with 34,601 adverts live nationally when we counted, 24,932 of them in Dubai and 3,257 in Abu Dhabi. We could not find a video slot in the listing itself, not in the dealer app feature list and not on any live advert, so we do not pretend otherwise. What dubizzle gives you instead is the WhatsApp button on every advert, and that is exactly where the vertical file earns its money: the buyer messages, you reply with the video, and the conversation moves on from price to the car.
This is the one portal where the video belongs inside the advert. DubiCars says it features images and videos on selected listings and sells photo and video sessions to its own dealers, and its listings already carry a 360-degree panorama icon, so a buyer here expects more than a gallery. The platform lists 1,525 dealers in its public directory and 27,185 used cars nationally, with the weight sitting in Dubai and Sharjah rather than Abu Dhabi. You upload the landscape cut to the advert and the vertical one goes to your own channels.
The same operator runs YallaMotor in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain, which matters if you already sell across the Gulf, because one video works in every one of those markets without a second production. What is confirmed on the platform is the 360-degree inspection product, and that is a condition report rather than a marketing film. If your account manager tells you video listings are available on your plan, send us the required format and we will match it.
One more thing worth saying plainly: DubiCars already sells a booked photo and video session to its dealers, and there are production houses in Dubai shooting walkarounds for showrooms on retainer. We are not claiming to replace a crew for your flagship car. We are the option for the other forty units in the yard that will never get a shoot booked.
These are the models we saw most often on dubizzle when we counted the live adverts, plus the segment that has changed the fastest this year. If your yard looks like this, the video has a specific job on each row.
The most-listed single model we found on the platform, which is also the problem: your Patrol sits in a search result next to hundreds of others and the buyer sorts by price. Motion is the only thing that separates a well-kept, agency-maintained GCC-spec car from an import with a cheaper number on it, because the video shows the paint, the interior and the odometer instead of asserting them in a description line.
The export staple, and often the car being bought by somebody who is not in the country. A remote buyer will ask for a walk round the vehicle before they transfer anything, so having the video ready before the question is asked shortens the whole conversation. It is also the car where the difference between GCC specs and imported specs is worth the most money, and the video is where you show it rather than claim it.
A separate car from the Land Cruiser in this market and priced as one, which the buyer knows even when the advert blurs the two. A twenty-second clip that opens on the badge and the front three-quarter leaves no room for that confusion, and the same file is your Reel, your TikTok post and your reply in the chat.
Jetour appeared three times in the most-searched list DubiCars published for August 2026, alongside models such as the MG 7 and the Ford Territory. These cars have no twenty-year reputation carrying them, so the buyer is looking for reassurance about how the car actually presents. That is a video problem, not a copywriting problem, and it applies to every unit on the row rather than one hero car.
The captions we lay over the video use the vocabulary a UAE buyer scans for, because a caption in the wrong dialect is worse than no caption. That means GCC specs rather than a vague reference to the region, agency maintained rather than dealer serviced, full agency service history where you have it, 0 km where the car is unregistered, mulkiya rather than registration card, and right hand drive or left hand drive spelled out where a re-export buyer needs to know. Spelling follows British convention throughout, so it reads as authorised, tyre, colour and service centre, the way your own listing already reads.
Nothing is booked, nobody visits the showroom, and a car photographed this morning can be a video on your channels tomorrow. The whole pipeline runs on software, which is the only reason the price per unit works at yard scale.
Five to ten images straight off your dubizzle or DubiCars advert, roughly half exterior and half interior. Paste the advert link instead if that is quicker, and we will pull what we need from there.
The AI picks the cuts, the music and the captions and lays in your price and your showroom name. If one shot is not right, you re-roll that three-second slice yourself in the dashboard instead of emailing an editor.
The vertical file goes to TikTok, Reels and every WhatsApp enquiry that comes in. The landscape file goes on your DubiCars advert and your own website, so one upload covers the advert and the feed at once.
Everything is billed in US dollars. Because the dirham has been pegged to the dollar at 3.6725 since 1997, that figure converts to the same amount in AED this month as it will next month, so there is no exchange-rate surprise on the invoice.
One car, both cuts, the simplest way to test this on a single unit before you put it near the rest of the yard.
Ten cars in one bundle at a lower price per unit, which suits a showroom putting a handful of fresh arrivals online every week.
Twenty-five finished videos in one go, at the lowest price per car we offer. Enough to put a whole lot in motion without paying for each one separately.
Payment goes by bank transfer against an invoice, and we put your TRN on it so your accountant can handle the reverse charge in the normal way. Your first sample video is free and needs no card, so you can see one of your own cars finished before anything is agreed.
Free sample videoIf yours is not here, email hello@aicarvideo.com and you will get an answer the same day.
What a walk round the vehicle needs to show, and the order the shots belong in.
Read it PricingThe honest breakdown across freelancers, studios and a flat price per unit.
Read it ComparisonWhere a booked crew still wins, and where per-unit software is the better buy.
Read it ServiceWhat done-for-you car video looks like when software does the editing.
Read itEverything on this page applies to the service we run worldwide, which you can read about on the AI Car Video home page. What changes for the UAE is where the video goes once it exists, and that is the part we have set out above.
Pick a unit that has been sitting too long, send the photos from its advert, and both cuts come back within 24 hours. If it is good you tell us the next ten cars, and if it is not you have spent nothing and you still keep the video.
