Independent house — Est. 2025Index 001 / Vol. IBased in Dubai · Operating worldwide

We make brandsworth watching,talking about, remembering.

Maison Media is an independent house of strategists, art directors, and storytellers building cultural-grade brands for founders, personal brands, and companies who refuse to look like everyone else.

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A house built on instinct.

Maison Media was founded in Dubai in 2025 — not as another agency, but as a house: a small, deliberate studio where every project is led by the people whose names are on the door.

We started because we were tired of marketing that looked like marketing. Tired of decks that promised culture and delivered templates. Tired of being told that taste and performance had to be a trade-off.

So we built the thing we wanted to work with — a partner for founders, personal brands, and companies who refuse to look like everyone else, and who measure success in both feeling and numbers.

The people in the room.

Nicole Kastner
Co-founder · 01

Nicole Kastner

Co-founder · CEO

Nicole founded Maison Media on the belief that the most valuable thing a brand can own is a point of view. A marketing strategist, content creator, and speaker, she leads the house's vision, creative direction, and client relationships — translating founders' stories into brand worlds that travel further than the founders themselves.

She earned her Bachelor's in Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Hult International Business School, studying across San Francisco, London, and Shanghai. At just 23, after only six months of employment, she founded her first company — a social media agency in Vienna.

Taste over reach. Always.

Chantelle Docherty
Co-founder · 02

Chantelle Docherty

Co-founder · CSO

Chantelle leads strategy across the house — the operating system behind every brand we build. As Chief Strategy Officer, she's the one who turns instinct into infrastructure: positioning frameworks, narrative architecture, the long-view of where a brand needs to be in five years before anyone's asked the question.

Build the strategy first. The aesthetics follow.

The wider house.

Strategists, art directors, photographers, editors, and producers — every project is staffed by the same names from brief to delivery.

Chloe Thomas
Head of Partnerships · 03

Chloe Thomas

Head of Partnerships

I've always believed that the best brand partnerships happen at the intersection of creative vision and airtight execution. But the real secret ingredient? An unstoppable mindset.

Cultivating relationships and constantly raising the bar is my superpower. Before stepping into marketing, I spent years in high-velocity sectors like tech & HR recruitment and currently in cyber security. In those spaces, giving up isn't an option. It taught me how to navigate tough rooms, build deep trust, and most importantly always look for the lesson, refine my approach, and find a creative way forward when a door closes.

Joining Maison Media allowed me to bring that people-first hustle and commitment to continuous improvement into the industry I love most. Today, I manage our brand partnerships from start to finish — finding the right matches, opening the right doors, and closing the kind of end-to-end deals where everyone wins.

Four principles, not rules.

01 — Italic

Taste over reach.

A million wrong eyes is a worse outcome than a thousand right ones. We choose the right audience first, then scale to as many of them as exist.

02 — Italic

Craft over volume.

One piece of work made well outlasts a hundred made fast. We measure success by what lives in the feed for months, not by what fills the calendar this week.

03 — Italic

Partners, not vendors.

Every account is led by a partner. No layers, no farmed-out craft, no junior account managers between you and the people doing the actual work.

04 — Italic

Performance with taste.

Numbers and beauty aren't enemies. We refuse the false trade between work that performs and work that's worth looking at — both, or neither.

Six disciplines, one standard.

Every engagement is led by a partner. Every output is judged against the same question: would this make someone stop?

Photography & videography.

Every still and every frame is produced in-house — from concept and casting through to final cut. A selection of recent work for clients, talent, and our own editorial projects.

Campaign reelFor OUATI Dubai
Lockscreen dropFor OUATI Dubai
Talent featureFor OUATI Dubai

The brands. The numbers.

A working list of houses, founders, and labels we've shaped, scaled, or sat next to — and what changed while we were there. Tap any to visit them on Instagram.

01 · Author · Personal brand
Dr. Alina Kastner
322K+
Cross-platform · IG + TikTok
@dr.alinakastner
02 · Fashion house
Juliane KnipsFashion House
33K+
Community · award-winning atelier
@jkfh
03 · Theatre · Live show
Once Upon A Timein Dubai
14K+
Community · #1 show in Dubai
@ouatidubai
04 · Personal brand
Klaudia Adler
In studio
Personal brand · in build
@klaudiadler

— And a quiet handful we've signed an NDA with —

Voices we represent.

A small, deliberate roster of women whose audiences trust them — from longevity science to occupational therapy to soft-life storytelling. Tap any card to visit them on Instagram.

Sabrina Brown
120K followersLongevity · Wellness

Sabrina Brown

@thepositivelady

"Women are not small men." Sabrina is a biohacking, hormones & longevity educator for women — translating peer-reviewed science into a daily practice of consistency over perfection.

HormonesBiohackingLongevityWellness
Lorena Maré
99.3K followersPediatric OT

Lorena Maré

@ot.lorena

A pediatric occupational therapist turning clinical expertise into the most-trusted parenting feed online — sensory regulation, fine motor play, and gentle developmental science for the modern mother.

Pediatric OTParentingSensoryEducation
Klaudia Adler
3,200 followersLifestyle · POV

Klaudia Adler

@klaudiadler

A rising lifestyle voice on the soft, uncomfortable, and beautiful — age-gap relationships, mental health, self-love, and travel — told with the kind of honesty that turns small audiences into devoted ones.

LifestyleMental healthTravelSelf-love
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Brands shaped since opening the doors
12
Senior partners on the floor — no layers
9×
Average ROAS across our retained accounts
Patience for taste. None for mediocrity.

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Head of Partnerships

chloe@maisonmediaa.co

Co-Founder / CEO

nicole@maisonmediaa.co

Co-Founder / CSO

chantelle@maisonmediaa.co

Studio

Studio One Park Avenue
Dubai, United Arab Emirates