Good People, the region’s leading creative production house, joined forces with the region’s leading digital agency and 2019’s Independent-Agency-of-the-Year, Kijamii, to form the largest independent (digitally driven) network in the MENA region. The newly formed network will hold the name, GP&K, and its companies will operate independently, providing their services to organisations across various sectors as well as agencies around the region.
From the get-go, the new network will house digitally-minded creative, film production, digital media and technology solutions under one roof. Meshing together Good People’s experience in TV and film craft with Kijamii’s remarkable digital and social footprint, this union is bound to give way to exciting new offerings and infinite possibilities in creative and production, solutions and ideas that are empowered by the latest technologies, backed by insightful consumer data, which is quickly becoming the industry’s most valuable asset.
“There is no escaping this in today’s day and age. If you want to survive you have to be digitally-minded, and if you want to be digitally-minded you have to join hands with technology. You need to be mining data and triggering technology with one hand, while writing scripts and drawing-up storyboards with the other,” says Good People’s cofounder Ali Ali.
“The industry is becoming faster, transparent, more agile, and data driven. The need for digital creative and innovative production is here to stay,” says Kijamii’s co-founder Bassem El Hady.
Good People pioneered the first creative-led production house in the region with its own exclusive roster of directors. Kijamii succeeded in developing key competencies and capabilities that set it apart from the rest of the market such as becoming a one-stop digital shop, an international player working with the world's leading companies, multinationals and sports clubs. These strategic relationships have catalyzed Kijami’s evolution into a notable global player with world-class standards and processes.
With all these assets in the network, GP&K is here to pave the way for the first digitally-minded creative and production power house.
“With the rapid transformation in the digital space, it’s not an option but to have the best and most knowledgeable consultants, excellent & efficient production capabilities. And for that we are bringing together our digital knowledge, social creative, tech & media buying capabilities, with their superbe creativity & production excellence,” adds Bassem. The GP&K network will become the largest, strongest, youngest independent group of companies in the MEA, to grow and develop local talents and to locally create advertising solutions for global markets.
“Good People and Kijami complete each other,” adds Ali. “Our digital offering was non existent, their tv and production offering needed an upgrade. More importantly our culture of the-work-comes-first was strikingly similar, and that will continue to be our DNA at GP&K.”
Good People was founded in 2016 by Ali Ali, Maged Nassar, Pierre Mouarkech and Mido Abouyoussef. Good People has been awarded the Dubai Lynx Golden Palm Award for the three consecutive years (up till 2018), as in best production house in the Middle East.
Ahmed Coucha, Bahy Abo Elezz and Bassem Elhady founded Kijamii in 2011, with their strategic investor, Karim Beshara. The agency later joined the A15 investment portfolio in order to accelerate its growth strategies. This year, Kijami won the title of best independent agency in the region at the Dubai Lynx Awards.
